By that time his Holy Roman Empire comprised most of Western Europe. He adds laws of choice (free will) taken from the earlier law codes of Germanic peoples not originally part of Francia. These are numbered into the laws that were there, but they have their own, quasi-sectional, title. All the Franks of Francia were subject to the same law code, which retained the overall title of "Lex Salica". These integrated sections borrowed from other Germanic codes are the "Lex Ribuariorum", later "Lex Ribuaria", laws adopted from the Ripuarian Franks, who, before Clovis, had been independent. The "Lex Alamannorum" took laws from the Alamanni, then subject to the Franks. Under the Franks, they were governed by Frankish law, not their own. The inclusion of some of their law as part of the Salic Law must have served as a palliative. Charlemagne goes back even earlier to the "Lex Suauorum", the ancient code of the Suebi preceding the Alemanni.