Quaestor sacri palatii
The quaestor sacri palatii (short QSP; Latin " Quaestor of the Sacred Palace " ) was a high official in the late ancient Roman Empire.
Within the imperial courtiers of the QSP was the second- highest official after the magister officiorum. He was a kind of " minister of justice " because it was his job to formulate the imperial decrees. In fact, he is therefore likely to have had considerable influence on the content of the laws, not only under weaker rulers. Therefore, the quaestores were mostly very Viewed legal scholars or rhetoricians. The QSP Association - apart from the name - it almost nothing more with the quaestor of the Roman Republic and early Empire. The late antique office was most likely back to the quaestores Caesar, who had informed the Senate imperial pronouncements since the late 1st century.
The quaestor sacri palatii belonged to the consistorium, a council of senior officials in the often general laws were passed. Here suggestions or requests for needed laws were introduced. The Quaestor now fell to the task of drawing up a proposal for formulating a new law. This proposal was then discussed in turn in consistorium and later presented to the emperor.
The QSP was one of the three classes of rank comites ( " companions " ) of the respective Emperor. This system was created by Constantine I and applied not only to the respective ruling upper emperor ( Augustus ), but also for possible co-and sub- Kaiser ( Caesars ). About the royal household a high emperor often tried to control his (s) under the Emperor. The office of quaestor sacri palatii and with it the Constantinian system of the court persisted in the west of the Roman Empire to the time after the end of the Western Roman Empire ( 476/480 ). Testified Still under Odoacer ( 476-493 ), and during the following Ostgotenherrschaft over Italy ( 493-553 ), it is; only 554 it was abolished together with the Western Roman court of Emperor Justinian. In Ostrom, the Office was still significantly longer - well into the 7th century, when the kingdom of his late ancient Roman character largely forfeited. One of the most famous holder of the office was Tribonian, who was responsible under Emperor Justinian for the creation of the Codex Justinian.