| Keywords |
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| ID |
5217 |
| Text |
Edictus Rothari (643 - 643) Rothari, Rothair |
| Quotation |
Si servus liberam mulierem aut puellam ausus fuerit sibi in coniugium sociare, animae suae incurrat periculum, et illa qui servum fuerit consentiens, habenat parentes potestatem eam occidendi aut foris provincia transvindendi, et de res ipsius mulieris faciendi quod voluerint. et si parentes eius hoc facere distulerint, tunc liciat gastaldium regis aut sculdhais ipsam in curte regis ducere et in pisele inter ancillas statuere. |
| Translation |
If an enslaved man dares to marry a free woman or girl he shall lose his life. With regard to the woman who consented to a slave, her relatives have the right to kill her or to sell her outside the country and to do what they wish with her property. And if her relatives delay in doing this, then the king's gastald or schuldahis shall lead her to the king's court and place her there in the women's apartments among the enslaved women.
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 95) |
| Summary |
Rothari, No. 221 establishes a death penalty for an enslaved man who marries a free woman or girl. It also establishes that the family of the woman in question must either kill her or sell her outside of the country, and if they delay in doing this then the gastald or sculdahis are to take her to the king’s court and place her in the quarters for enslaved women (i.e. making her also an enslaved woman). |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 53-54 |
| Temporal Coverage |
643 - 643 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
The Edictus Rothari forms part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
