Eustathios Rhomaios

Eustathius Rhomaios (Greek Εὐστάθιος [ ὁ ] Ῥωμαῖος ) was a Byzantine court in the 10th and 11th centuries.

Eustathius, where because of his knowledge in the ( " Roman " ) jurisprudence of the epithet " ὁ Ῥωμαῖος " (= " the Romans ") was gained, lived from about 960/62 bis 1033/35, went through in the Byzantine judicial hierarchy numerous positions from simple Richter ( λιτὸς κριτής ) to Magistros ( μάγιστρος ) and drungarius tes Viglas ( δρουγγάριος τῆς βίγλας ) and thus was not only the chief judge of the former Byzantine 11th century, but also the most famous lawyer of the entire middle Byzantine period. Although only three or four of his judgments in the text have survived, but are in the Peira many excerpts handed out its decisions. His high reputation meant that he was in the late Byzantine period and some foreign texts, especially the Tractatus de creditis attributed.

Edition

• GA Rhalles, M. Potles: Σύνταγμα τῶν θείων καὶ ἱερῶν κανόνων, Vol V, Athens 1855, pp. 341-353 and 32-36
• Andreas Schminck: Four before legal decisions of the 11th century, in: Fontes minores, Vol III, 1979, pp. 224-232 and 240-246 ( with German translation )