Editing Visigothic Code (section)

==The first law codes==
During the first centuries of Visigothic rule, Romans were ruled by different laws than Goths were. The earliest known Visigothic laws are the ''[[Code of Euric]]'', which were compiled by roughly 480 A.D. The first written laws of the Visigothic kingdom were compiled during the rule of king [[Alaric II]] and were meant to regulate the lives of Romans, who made up the majority of the kingdom and were based on the existing Roman imperial laws and their interpretations. The ''Breviarium'' (''[[Breviary of Alaric]]'') was promulgated during the meeting of Visigothic nobles in Toulouse on February 2, 506.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WlSu_iWzA9AC&q=breviarium&pg=PA230 ''Visigothic Spain 409–711'']</ref>

During the reign of King [[Leovigild]] an attempt was made to unite the laws regulating the lives of Goths and those who had previously been Roman subjects, into a revised law code, ''[[Code of Leovigild|Codex Revisus]]''. In 589, at the [[Third Council of Toledo]], the ruling Visigoths and [[Suebi]], who had long practiced [[Arianism]], converted to [[Latin Church|Latin Catholicism]]. Now that the formerly Roman population and the Goths shared the same faith, King [[Reccared]] issued laws that equally applied to both populations.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=imzdcbp_5woC&dq=visigothic+code&pg=PA19 ''Law and Society in the Visigothic Kingdom'']</ref>