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The Lex Burgundionum (Latin for Burgundian Laws, also Lex Gundobada) refers to the law code of the Burgundians, probably issued by king Gundobad. It is influenced by Roman law and deals with domestic laws concerning marriage and inheritance as well as regulating weregild and other penalties.
The great frontier which divided the inhabitants of the Roman Empire from the Celtic and Germanic peoples who lived beyond their northern provinces consisted not only of forts, frontier settlements, and defense works, but of cultural and institutional differences as well.
From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and...
The Burgundian Laws Introduction. 1. The Burgundians crossed the Rhine sometime around 410 — kingdom centered in Worms, Speyer and Strasbourg, overthrown by the Huns (in Roman employ) c.436 — the remnants regathered north of Lake Geneva and under Gundobad (r.474–516) established a kingdom up and down the Rhone.
Jun 29, 2019 · Reprint of the 1949 ed., which was issued as ser. 3, v. 5 of Pennsylvania University, Dept. of History, Translations and reprints from the original sources of history. Bibliography: p. 97-102. Access-restricted-item.
The Burgundians left three legal codes, among the earliest from any of the Germanic tribes. The Liber Constitutionum sive Lex Gundobada ("The Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad"), also known as the Lex Burgundionum , or more simply the Lex Gundobada or the Liber , was issued in several parts between 483 and 516, principally by ...
Burgundians and Romans according to our laws which have been set forth and corrected by a common method, to the end that no one may hope or presume to receive anything by way of reward or emolument from any party as the result of the suits or decisions; but let him whose case is deserving obtain justice and
