aldius

Updated: May 1, 2025

If he married a slave, the children followed the mother, and became slaves of his lord. The Aldius, again, may not sell his lord's land or slaves, which indicates that he held land and slaves under his lord. What the word means, Grimm does not seem to know.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

And now concerning slaves, who seem to have been divided into three classes. The Aldius and Aldia, masculine and feminine, who were of a higher rank than other slaves. The Aldius could marry a free woman, while the slave marrying a free woman is punishable by death; and, as experimentum crucis, if an Aldius married an Aldia or a free woman, the children followed the father.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge