Lex Burgundionum

The burgundy right includes the Germanic Rechtskodifikation from the kingdom of Burgundy. It is laid down mainly in two collections: in the lex Burgundionum (also Gundobada lex or loi Gombette ) and the lex Romana Burgundionum.

Lex Burgundionum

The lex Burgundionum survives in 14 manuscripts since the 9th century. These are divided into two classes text - a text with 88 titles and one with 105 titles. The oriented on the model of the Roman legal tradition, legal texts of the lex Burgundionum consist of decrees of the Burgundian kings and deal with family law (marriage, inheritance ) and Wergeldern and penalties. They regulated both life between Burgundians and the between Burgundians and Gallo Romans.

Although the oldest surviving copies come from the 9th century, but the lex Burgundionum attributed to the 516 deceased king Gundobad, but no later than his successor Sigismund. The controversy over the attribution to Gundobad or Sigismund results from the manuscript tradition: Seven manuscripts call Gundobad, seven more Sigismund as the author of the lex. Very likely revised work is the lex in a new version of Sigismund in many parts of Gundobad herrührendes and repeatedly using the Visigothic Code Euricianus (influence but still unexplored ) again. The interpolations Sigismund should not be very often.

The text of the lex handed three groups of standards: Weistümer, legislative acts in the style of the late Roman emperors and contractually fixed right. Depending on the source passes an edict each one of the two kings of the text. In formulating the king decrees, at the next to the ruler presumably the great men of the kingdom were involved, the customary law of the Gris was formulated based on the Roman law. This is especially evident in text - overs from the Theodosian Code and from the Paul Sentences. Gundobad and Sigismund intervened certainly back on versed in Roman law consultant.

With lex, the goal was to adapt the law to changing social and economic needs. So should a prior right ( -priority leges ), after weighing all the circumstances of a just solution soft (Titus 42 lex Burgundionum ), gaps in the legal tradition were closed (Titus 48 lex Burgundionum ). Judges were allowed in the lex not decide not controlled cases of doubt alone, but had to submit these to the king, who had come to as solus interpres legum the binding decision.

Lex Romana Burgundionum

This text is a collection of acquisitions from numerous Roman law sources. The oldest surviving copy dates from the 7th century. Probably the lex was primarily intended Romana Burgundionum for use against the Gallo Romans in the Burgundian kingdom.

Swell

• Franz Beyerle (ed.): laws of the Burgundians, Böhlau, Weimar 1936.
• Ludwig Rudolf von Salis (ed.): Leges Burgundionum. Hahn, Hannover 1892 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, additional gear, back gear nationum Germanicarum (LL nat. Germ. ) 2, 1).