The
Breviary of Alaric (
Breviarium Alaricianum or
Lex Romana Visigothorum) is a collection of
Roman law, compiled by unknown writers and approved by
Anianus on the order of
Alaric II,
King of the Visigoths, with the advice of his bishops and nobles. It was promulgated on 2 February 506, the 22nd year of his reign. It applied, not to the Visigothic nobles under their own law, which had been formulated by
Euric, but to the
Hispano-Roman and
Gallo-Roman population, living under Visigoth rule south of the
Loire and, in Book 16, to the members of the Trinitarian Catholic Church. (The Visigoths were
Arian and maintained their own clergy.)