Lex Baiuvariorum

The Baiuvariorum Lex ( Lex Baiuwariorum, Lex or Lex Bajuvariorum Baivariorum ) is the resultant in the period from the 6th to the 8th century collection of popular rights of the Bavarians, that is the oldest collection of laws of the early Bavarian duchy. The text is written in Latin, but contains Baiuvarii fragments. It is the oldest and most important monument of the Bavarians.

Formation

Eberswind abbot of the newly founded monastery Niederaltaich regarded by many as the editor of this first Bavarian tribal law ( at 741/743 ). It can also be caused Lex Baiuvariorum in St. Emmeram in Regensburg or the Bishop of Freising monastery on the mountain. The initiative is intended by Duke Odilo († 748 ) can be assumed. The Lex Baiuvariorum himself gives to King Dagobert ( 623-639 ), is said to have the right book, where the last form. This information may, however, be doubted, because it attempts it, the dependence of Bavaria from early Frankish Empire extremely noteworthy. Duke violence contra royal power, against this background was the Lex Baiuvariorum in various stages and was greatly changed after the defeat of Tassilo in favor of the Frankish kings. In the Lex Baiuvariorum the Westgotenrecht the king Eurich, the Frankish king and right parts of the Lex Alamannorum with Bavarian elements for so-called right of the people of Bavaria unite.

The Lex Baiuvariorum was in force until 1180.

The oldest surviving manuscript of the Lex Baiuvariorum from around the year 800, the so-called " Ingolstadt handwriting " is, in the University Library of Munich preserved ( Signature: Cim 7 = 8 ms 132 ° Cod. . ). The collection belongs to the Germanic tribal rights.

Content

The Lex Baiuvariorum contains 23 articles in legal rules and procedures to criminal, process, and private law partially separated for individual stands ( clerics, nobles, free, freedmen, prepaid ) and principles for the management of church property.

Chapter:

The Agilolfinger are referred to as entitled to inherit rulers of Bavaria, appointed by the Frankish Merovingian king of Reims. In addition, the families of the Huosi, Trozza, Fagana, Hahiligga (also Hahilinga ) and Anniona be explicitly mentioned.

Expenditure

  • John Merkel ( eds.): Leges Alamannorum. Leges Baiuwariorum. Friedrich Bluhme (ed.): Leges Burgundionum. Karl von Richthofen (ed.): Lex Frisionum. Unchanged reprint of the edition 1863. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7772-6507-1, ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, additional gear, back gear ( in Folio) (LL ) 3, ISSN 0344-4953 ). The Lex Baiuvariorum on page 183ff. ( Digitized )
  • Ernst von Schwind ( ed.): Lex Baiwariorum. Unchanged reprint of the edition 1926. Hahn, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-7752-5423-4, ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, additional gear, back gear nationum Germanicarum (LL nat. Germ. ) 5, 2, ISSN 0343-0839 ). In the digital Monumenta.
  • Konrad Beyerle: Lex Baiuvariorum. Collotype reproduction of the Ingolstadt handwriting of the Bavarian People's Right with transcriptions, notes, translation, introduction, literature review and glossary. For the centenary of the relocation of the University of Landshut to Munich. Hueber, Munich 1926 ( See also: Selected Essays, trans. .. Lex Baiuwariorum reproduction of Ingolstadt handwriting of Bavarian folk justice in the original translation from the Latin Publisher Documenta Naturae, Olching 1997 ( Documentation historiae 2, 1, ISSN 1433-1691 ) ) ( See also: ibid: Introduction to Lex Baiuvariorum As an introduction, a facsimile edition of the Ingolstadt-based handwriting of Bavarian folk justice Hueber, Munich 1926, (From:. . Festgabe the Faculty of Law and the University Library of Munich for the centenary of the University of Munich) ).
  • Karl August Eckhardt (ed.): Alemanni and Bavarians. Böhlau, Weimar 1934 ( German rights 2, The laws of the Carolingian Empire 714-911 2).
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