Note 130 — Chapter V · THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEUDAL STATE
John M. (John Milton) Gitterman translation
Meitzen, l. c. I, p. 579: “At the time of the compilation of the Lex Salica, the ancient racial nobility had been reduced to common freemen or else had been annihilated. The officials, on the other hand, are rated at threefold wergeld, 600 solidi, and if one be ‘puer regis’ 300 solidi.”