Stelle Reminiscimus enim quia anterior edi...; ([II] Ratchis Leges p. chr. 746 (746 - 746), MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 188) [5408]

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Keywords	Keyword: arimannus, arimanna (army-man, freeman, free woman), [wurzel: arimann] Keyword: edictum (edict, law-code), [wurzel: edict] Name: Grimoald, [wurzel: Grimwald] Name: Liutprand, [wurzel: Liutprand] Keyword: rex (king), [wurzel: reg]
ID	5408
Text	[II] Ratchis Leges p. chr. 746 (746 - 746) Ratchis
Quotation	Reminiscimus enim quia anterior edictus contenere dignoscitur de liberis feminis qui servis copulantur ut quandoque inventi essent in servitio reducerentur. Sed quia Grimowald rex instituit de his qui per triginta annos in libertatem viverent ut in servitio non replicarentur tamen quia curtes regia possession non inpedit nisi per sexaginta annorum curricula sicut domnus Liutprand rex instituit… Si antem amodo presumpserit cuiuscumque servus arimanna ducere uxorem sic exinde detur iudicium sicut anterior pagina edictus continentur.
Translation	We are aware that the earlier edict provided that free women who have married enslaved should be reduced to servitude whenever they are found. Although King Grimwald ordered that those who had lived in liberty for as much as thirty years should not be returned to servitude, nevertheless we note that the possession of the royal court is not impaired except after the passage of sixty years, as lord King Liutprand provided… If in the future any enslaved man presumes to take an arimanna [free woman] to wife, however, judgment shall be rendered as the earlicr edict provides (Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 220)
Summary	Ratchis No. 6 emends the previous law that stated that if a free woman had married an enslaved man and rather than being enslaved herself, had continued to live in liberty for thirty years or more then she was to continue to live as a free woman. Ratchis’ emendation beings Liutprand’s previous legislation that established that duration sould be doubled to sixty years in in royal cases, in situations where the freewomen would have been enslaved by the royal court. The law concludes by reiterating the previous law, stating that should an arimanna [free woman] be married to an enslaved man, then she should still be enslaved herself.
Quotation source	MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 188
Temporal Coverage	746 - 746
Associated use case(s)	Law, Place and People: Langobard Legal Actors in the Lombard Laws
Comment	The Ratchis Leges (II) form part of the Leges Ratchis [Text, ID:1116] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984].