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The law issued by King Recceswinth (ca AD 649-672) forbids patrons to force their freedmen who are monks or clerics to services on their behalf. The codification known as Lex Visigothorum (issued and revised several times between 569 and 702).
V.7.18
 
XVIII. FLAVIUS GLORIOSUS RECCESSVINDUS REX
 
Ne liberti religiosi ad obsequium reducantur heredis.
 
Quoslibet de corumcumque libertis aut specialiter ecclesiastici dignitas sublimavit honoris aut prefixis sanctorum locis deputavit vel ordo religionis vel ordinatio manumittentis, non erunt ad hominum patrocinium reducendi contentione qualibet heredis. Quod enim gloriosius Deo adherere censetur, obsequiis hominum religari honestate nulla sinitur.
 
(ed. Zeumer 1902: 243)
V.7.18
 
XVIIII. GLORIOUS KING FLAVIUS RECCESWINTH
 
That consecrated freedmen shall not be brought back to the service of the landlord.
 
Any freedman of any man who was either elevated by the honour of ecclesiastical dignity or delegated to the service in the holy sites because of his religious rank or by the will of his manumitter, cannot return to the service of men regardless of any claims brought by the heir. Because whatever is known to belong gloriously to God, can never be in any respect bound to service to men.God can never be again subjected to the dominion of man.
 
(trans. by M. Szada)

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  • Iberian Peninsula

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Title: Lex Visigothorum, Liber iudiciorum, Liber iudiciorum sive Lex Visigothorum
Origin: Toledo (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Lex Visigothorum is a codification of law first composed during the reign of King Leovigild (569-586) on the basis of the Code of Euric, but the origin of all extant manuscripts is its revised version from the reign of King Reccesvinth (649-672). The codification was also enlarged in the times of King Ervig (680-687) and Ecgica (687-702).
Edition:
K. Zeumer ed., Liber iudiciorum sive lex Visigothorum, Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Leges nationum Germanicarum 1, Hannover, Leipzig 1902, 33-456.
 
Translation:
The Visigothic Code (Forum Judicum), trans. S.P. Scott, Boston 1910
Bibliography:
K. Schäferdiek, Die Kirche in den Reichen der Westgoten und Suewen bis zur Errichtung der westgotischen katholischen Staatskirche, Berlin 1967.

Categories:

Social origin or status - Slaves
    Private law - Secular
      Patronage/Investiture
        Economic status and activity - Taxes and services
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER601, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=601
          Record by: Marta Szada
          last edited: 2019-01-25 13:45:54
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