He wrote it while living in a small structure on top of a hill in the forest outside Worms, after his defeat of Duke Otto and while raising his adopted child.
Burchard spent the years 1023 to 1025 promulgating Leges et Statuta Familiae S. Petri Wormatiensis, a collection of religious laws he endorsed as just and hoped to have officially approbated.
As an example, he quotes a 1521 work published in Toulouse: Latin: Armaria est locus ubi libri reponuntur (a bookcase is a place where the books are returned).
[5] Multiple sources, including the Oxford English Dictionary, derive the term from the name of Bishop Burkhardt, although contemporaneous Medieval Latin spelling was typically Burkhardus.
[6] Spargo in 1948 pointed out that Friedrich Carl von Savigny, an 18th century authority on canon law, declared association to be solely due to a similarity in sound, and stated that the origin of the term is "very uncertain".