Salic law was the early medieval legal code of the Salian Franks, written in Latin and set down around the time of the Frankish king Clovis. It is mostly a list of fines for offences, setting out compensation for injuries and theft and giving a picture of daily life in Frankish society. One clause on inheritance of land, which barred women, was in later centuries cited in France to justify excluding women from the throne. It was invoked in the Hundred Years' War to deny the claim of the English king Edward III, whose claim came through his mother. As a result, the name came to mean any rule that bars female succession.
Before and after
- c. 482 CEOrigins of Kyiv
- 11 May 482 CEBirth of Justinian I
- 495 CEConstruction of Shaolin Monastery
- 5th centuryOrigins of Chufut-Kale
- 5th centurySalic law
- c. 500sRise of medieval music
- from 5th century to 7th centuryJahiliyyah
- from 502 CE to 506 CEAnastasian War
- from 511 CE to 977 CENeustria
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The era
This moment belongs to the Medieval world (500 CE to 1500 CE), kingdoms, faiths and trade routes.