Footnotes
[12]
"Nullas Germanorum populis urbes habitari satis notum est, ne
pati quidem inter se junctas sedes; colunt discreti, ut nemus placuit.
Vicos locant, non in nostrum morem connexis et cohærentibus ædifidis:
suam quisque domum spatio circumdat." — "De Moribus Germanorum," 16.
[13]
The Law of the Alemans, chap. 10, and the Law of the Bavarians, tit.
10, sections 1 and 2.
[14]
This inclosure is called Cortis in the charters.
[15]
See Marculfus, lib. ii, form. 10 and 12. Appendix to Marculfus, form.
49, and the ancient formularies of "Sirmondus," form. 22.
[16]
Form. 55, in Lindembroch's collection.
[17]
"De terra vero Salica in mulierem nulla portio hereditatis
transit, sed hoc virilis sexus acquirit, hoc est filii in ipsa
hereditate succedunt." — Tit. 68, section 6.
[18]
"Sororum filiis idem apud avunculum quam apud patrem honor.
Quidam sanctiorem arcti-oremque hunc nexum sanguinis arbitrantur, et in
accipiendis obsidibus magis exigunt, tanquam ii et animum firmius et
domum latius teneant." — "De Moribus Germanorum," 20.
[19]
See, in Gregory of Tours, lib. viii, chaps. 18, 20 and lib. ix, chaps. 16, 20, the rage
of Gontram at Leovigild's ill-treatment of Ingunda, his niece, which
Childebert her brother took up arms to revenge.
[22]
Et deinceps usque ad quintum genuculum qui proximus fuerit in
hereditatem succedat. — Tit. 56, 6.
[24]
Tit. 7, 1: Pater aut mater defuncti, filio non filiæ
hereditatem relinquant; 4, qui defunctus, non filios, sed filias
reliquerit, ad eas omnis hereditas pertineat.
[25]
In Marculfus, lib. ii, form. 12, and in the Appendix to Marculfus,
form. 49.
[26]
Lindembroch's collection, form. 55.
[27]
Du Cange, Pithou, etc.
[29]
Tit. 1, section 3; tit. 16, section 1; tit. 51.
[30]
Book iv, tit. 2, section 1.
[31]
The German nations, says Tacitus, De Moribus Germanorum, 22, had
common customs, as well as those which were peculiar to each.
[32]
Among the Ostrogoths, the crown twice devolved to the males by
means of females; the first time to Athalaricus, through Amalasuntha,
and the second to Theodat, through Amalafreda. Not but that the females
of that nation might have held the crown in their own right; for
Amalasuntha reigned after the death of Athalaricus; nay, even after the
election of Theodat, and in conjunction with that prince. See
Amalasuntha's and Theodat's letters, in "Cassiodorus," lib. x.
