| Keywords |
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| ID |
5290 |
| Text |
Leges a Grimowaldo additae (668 - 668) Grimoald, Grimwald |
| Quotation |
…Ideo ego vir excellentissimus Grimowald gentis Langobardorum rex, anno deo propitio sexto regni mei, mense Iulio indictione undecima per suggestione iudicum omnium consensu ea qui illis dura et impia in hoc edictum visa sunt, ad meliorem statum et clementiorem remedium corregere et revocare previdemus |
| Translation |
Therefore I, the most noble Grimwald, king of the Lombard gens [people], with the help of God in the sixth year of my reign, in the month of July, in the eleventh indiction, with the advice and consent of our iudices [judges] and of all the people have undertaken to amend those provisions of this code that seem harsh and unjust, and to bring them to a better state of justice.
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 131) |
| Summary |
The prologue to the additions made in the name of the Lombard King Grimwald begins by expressing a justification for emending and augmenting the Edictus Rothari. It then continues to introduce Grimwald as king of the Lombard gens [people], gives the date in which the laws were issued (July in the sixth year of his reign, that is 668 CE), and states the invovlement of the iudices [judges] in drawing up the laws. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 91 |
| Temporal Coverage |
643 - 668 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
The Leges a Grimowaldo additae forms part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
