Stelle His ergo expletis recolimus quoniam...; (Liutprand Leges Anno I (713 - 713), MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 107) [5578]

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Keywords	Keyword: edictum (edict, law-code), [wurzel: edict] Name: Grimoald, [wurzel: Grimwald] Ethnonym: Langobardi, [wurzel: langobard] Keyword: lex (law), [wurzel: leg] Keyword: princeps, [wurzel: princip] Keyword: rex (king), [wurzel: reg] Name: Rothari, [wurzel: Rothar]
ID	5578
Text	Liutprand Leges Anno I (713 - 713) Liutprand
Quotation	His ergo expletis recolimus quoniam rovustissimus decessor noster atque emenentissimus Rothari rex, sicut ipse est in scriptis affatus suis superius in langobardis edictum renovavit atque instituit: ubi et prudenter hoc inserere curavit dicens ut quis ille langobardorum princeps eius successor superfluum quid inibi reperit ex eo sapienter aufferret et quod minus invenerit deo sibi inspirante adicerit. Post hoc enim gloriosissimus Grimoald rex quae illi secundum deo placita fuerunt minuit et empliavit.
Translation	Therefore these things having been fulfilled, we recall that our most powerful predecessor, the most eminent King Rothair, just as is set forth in the preceding writing, renewed and established an edict for the Lombards. There he wisely took care to add that should a prince of the Lombards, one of his successors, discover anything superfluous there, he should remove it, and that which he finds to be lacking, he should add, under inspiration from God. And later the most glorious King Grimwald, with the help of God, removed or expanded those laws which seemed fitting to him. (Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 144)
Summary	In Liutprands, Prologue to the legislation issued in his first year as king (713 CE), the act of issuing new laws is explictly connected to the previous law-giving activities of King Rothari (643 CE) and of King Grimwald (666 CE). The prologue then justifies the addition of new law where needed, and the emendation or removal of superfluus law, in relation to the strategies employed by these previous Lombard kings, and also explicitly ties it to biblical law and in relation to viine inspiration.
Quotation source	MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 107
Temporal Coverage	713 - 713
Associated use case(s)	Law, Place and People: Langobard Legal Actors in the Lombard Laws
Comment	The Liutprand Leges Anno I form part of the Leges Liutprandi [Text, ID:1098] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984].