Assizes of Romania

The Assizes of Romania was the common law code of the Frankish states of Greece from the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries, compiled in the Principality of Achaea between 1333 and 1346 as a prologue and 219 clauses. Tradition credited its creation to Baldwin I, the first Latin emperor, modeling it on the Assizes of Jerusalem, though modern scholars dispute that attribution. Its provisions drew on the feudal customs Crusaders brought from western Europe, on legislation from France and Angevin Naples, on Byzantine law governing inheritance and agriculture, and on statutes of the Latin Empire and the Principality of Achaea. The code spread through Frankish Greece from Achaea's political prominence and survived longest in the Venetian controlled Ionian Islands, where it was occasionally consulted until Napoleon dissolved the Venetian Republic in 1797, and the surviving manuscripts exist only in Venetian translations made between 1423 and the eighteenth century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/