Breviary of Alaric

Copy of Breviarium Alaricianum from Bibliothèque du Patrimoine de Clermont Auvergne Métropole, France, 10th century
The Visigothic Kingdom at roughly its greatest extent

The Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum) is a collection of Roman law, compiled by Roman jurists and issued by referendary Anianus on the order of Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, with the approval of his bishops and nobles.[1] It was promulgated on 2 February 506,[2][3] the 22nd year of his reign.[4] It applied, not to the Visigothic nobles who lived under their own law, which had been formulated by Euric, but to the Hispano-Roman and Gallo-Roman population, living under Visigoth rule south of the Loire and, in Book 16, to the members of the trinitarian Catholic Church; the Visigoths were Arian and maintained their own clergy.

  1. ^ Breviarium Alaricianum in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith, 1890. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  2. ^ Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical, by Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, William Leist Readwin Cates
  3. ^ Frassetto, M. (2003). Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation. ABC-CLIO. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-57607-263-9. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
  4. ^ Breviarium Alaricianum in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith, 1890. Retrieved 14 November 2013.