Stelle …Idcirco ego in Dei omnipotentis au...; (Ahistulfi Legis anni V, MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), pp. 197-98) [5426]

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Keywords	Name: Aistulf, [wurzel: Aistulf] Ethnonym: Langobardi, [wurzel: langobard] Keyword: gens, [wurzel: gent] Keyword: regnum (kingdom, realm), [wurzel: regn] Keyword: rex (king), [wurzel: reg]
ID	5426
Text	Ahistulfi Legis anni V (755 - 755) Aistulf
Quotation	…Idcirco ego in Dei omnipotentis auxilio Ahistulfis praecellentissimus rex catholicae gentis Langobardorum praecessorum nostrorum omnia instituta perpendens quaedem ibi repperimus non adnexa de quibus maxima error nostros iudices ad danda iudicia involvebat anno felicissimi regni nostri in Dei nomini quinto die Kalendarum Martiarum indictione septima convocatis ex diversis partibus regni nostri…
Translation	Therefore with the aid of Almighty God, I, Aistulf, the most excellent king of the Catholic Lombard nation, after studying those provisions established by our predecessors, have ordered such laws to be added to the edict as we have found not to be included there and concerning which our judges have been involved in great error when rendering justice. This we do in the name of God in the fifth most happy year of our reign, on the first day of March, in the seventh indiction, together with our common council, the judges serving us having been called together from the different parts of our kingdom…. (Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 231)
Summary	The prologue to the laws issued in the fifth year of Aistuldf’s reign (755 CE) begin with a biblical quote and an appeal that the laws be pleasing to God. Aistulf is then named as the law-giver, and the motivation for issuing the laws is given as being in relation to good governance, and to prevent errors in judgement being made by judges regarding matters that were not previously included in the laws. The prologue concludes with a dating clause, and a statement that judges from across the regnum [kingdom, realm] have contributed to preparing the new laws.
Quotation source	MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), pp. 197-98
Temporal Coverage	755 - 755
Associated use case(s)	Law, Place and People: Langobard Legal Actors in the Lombard Laws
Comment	The Ahistulfi Leges (V) form part of the Leges Ahistulfi [Text, ID:1119] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984].