The History of the Law During the Middle Ages Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...§. 60. S. 119. "Rek " is translated by--beros, magnus, eximius. See also Wiarda iiber deutache namen. S. 42. The following passages likewise confirm this derivation: (a) "les Barons et les autres riches hommes," from chap. 5. of the assises de Jerusalem, ed. de La Thaumassiere, translated (Cane. v. 145. supr.) by grandi homini in the Italian version, (b) Riccbi homini et altri cavaglieri," from the preface to a small treatise in Cane. v. 305. supr.--Compare also Ducange's notes on Joinville, p. 51. Paris 1668, and the authorities there quoted. (55) Rathimb. in L. Sal. antiqu. in Georgisch.--Rachimb. in most passages: e. g. in L. Sal. emend, also in Georgisch.--Racimb. Racineb. Recyneb. in other MSS. of the L. Salira in Cane. v. 389, 390. 404. 405. and Ducange, V. 1089, and Form. Bignon. C. 26. (Cane. ii. 276.) Racimburdi in Form. Mabillonii C. 49. (Cane. iii. 478.) Regimburgi in the Placitum, A. C. 918, and in the Fuldensian diploma. (See above, p. 201, and n. 51.)--Raimburgi in the Chronicle in Bouquet VII. 227. (55 a) See below, p. 211. While the Lombardic and Frank orders of freemen have been thus found in possession of certain distinct characteristics, there are no traces existing of the similarly old and well defined caste of nobles among the latter people. This difference is sufficiently explained by the circumstance of the Frank nobility, about the time of the conquest of Gaul, having surrendered their independent dignity into the hands of the King. By becoming Royal retainers, their existence, as an old national order, ceased, and they were henceforth classed among the Antrustions, or principal liegemen. (56) Many have erroneously maintained, that the Franci were the nobility of the Franks. (57) But that term, in all (5...