Euric

Euric (v. 420 - 484), king of the Visigoths of 466 to its death in 484.

Biography

Wire of the king Théodoric and Amalaberge d' Ostrogotie, he becomes king after having assassinated his brother Théodoric II, with the capacity since 453. He makes Toulouse one of his main homes and extends his domination until the the Loire: the kingdom wisigothic reaches under its reign, its apogee in Gaulle with the detriment of the residual Roman domination. It also extends its domination on most of the Iberian peninsula , being opposed and subjecting the Suèves and seizing almost all the Spain in 476 after the deposition of the last Roman emperor of Occident, Romulus Augustule.

King arien savagely hostile with the Church, it is often in violent opposition with this one and the catholic that it persecutes violently, making destroy many churches that it makes leave with the abandonment, exiling the representatives of the Church too influential and too hostile to his authority. However, with Arles, quoted conquered by its troops into 476 (or 480), its relations with the representatives of the Church did not leave trace of such acts of violence.

Euric dies of natural causes, in Arles little time, seems it, after the Christian bishop Leonce at the end of 484. Alaric, its oldest son and legitimates born of his union with noble the Ragnahilde, succeeds to him.

Euric also had as a royal residence current the village of Aire-sur-l'Adour, with the foot of the the Pyrenees, very important city at the time for its strategic situation.

Regarded as being one of the largest kings among the kings Visigoths and even Goths, he is the first barbarian king “” to make put in writing the wisigothic oral laws of his people, the Codex Euricianus (Années 460: 461 or 470).

He marries Ragnahilde (sister of Mérovée frank king salien) she gives him:

The Codex Euricianus

See also: romano-Germanic Right

Some examples of laws:

  • For the murder of a man whose age east included/understood between 20 and 50 years, the murderer and his family will have to pay 300 pennies of Or;
  • For the murder of a 65 year old man and more, the tariff is re-examined with the fall: “only” 100 pennies: very practical estimate for people of warriors.

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