Upper Bavarian Land Law of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria from 1346

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The title page of the Upper Bavarian Land Law shows Emperor Ludwig on a throne. He holds a scepter and orb in his hands. Upper Bavarian Land Law, around 1346, Bavarian State Library Munich (Cgm 1506)

The Upper Bavarian Land Law of 1346 was issued by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian as land law for the Duchy of Upper Bavaria .

history

In the 1330s, Ludwig began to intensify his sovereignty, including a collection of legal norms that arose from 1334 to 1336. With the revision of the collection, the Upper Bavarian Land Law of 1346, a code of law was created that should be the legal basis for all court decisions in Upper Bavaria. The land law was written in German. In Upper Bavaria the “book” was reformed in 1518; uniform jurisdiction for the whole of Bavaria did not take place until the beginning of the 17th century under Maximilian I. In individual areas, such as in the offices of Kitzbühel , Kufstein and Rattenberg , which later became Tyrolean , Ludwig's Upper Bavarian land law was valid until the beginning of the 19th century.

literature

  • Wilhelm Volkert : Law books of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria from 1334/36 and 1346. published on March 26, 2012; in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns [1] , accessed on January 20, 2018.
  • Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): The legal book of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria from 1346. Ed. By W. Volkert using the preliminary work by Walter Jaroschka (†) and Heinz Lieberich (†) (Bayerische Rechtsquellen 4), Munich 2010.
  • Martin Clauss : Ludwig IV. The Bavarian. Duke, King, Emperor. Regensburg 2014, p. 89.

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