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Source: The Oxford Merovingian Page -The Franks 250-450

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Titre	The Oxford Merovingian Page -The Franks 250-450

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Sources: E. James The Franks 1987; I. Wood The Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751 1994; Gregory of Tours Ten Books of History (trans L. Thorpe, 1974); The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar (trans. J.M.Wallace-Hadrill, 1960); The Book of the History of the Franks (trans. B.Bachrach, 1973).

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The Franks and Alemans invaded Gaul 274-5, but the Franks had previously attacked the coasts of Gaul and Spain 260's, entered the medieval and established pirate base in Africa c.260-72 (Aurelius Victor liber de caesaribus, 33). Frankish tribes The Chamavi are first mentioned 289 (next to the Salians on the lower Rhine); the Bructeri in 307 (nrth of river Lippe); the Chattuari in 306 (along the river Sieg); and the Quadi and Salians in 357 on the Rhine next to the Almare: the Salians were settled by the Emperor Julian in Toxandria); the Amsivari and Tubantes c.364 opposite Cologne along with the Usipetes; the Tencteri lived further north in the Ruhr. Frankish Chiefs and Kings Gennobaudes I king who submitted to Maximianus 287 (Panegyriques latins, ed E.Galletier, p89) Ascaric and Merogaisus (called regales (kinglets/chieftains) of the Bructeri) invaded Gaul 306, defeated by Constantine I and killed by animals in arena at Trier. Mallobaudes King of the Franks who killed Macrianus king of Alemans in or after 374, appointed as commander of household troops by Gratian and sent with general Nannianus vs Lentienses Alemanni (Ammianus Marcellinus, XXX, 3,7) defeats Alemans near Rhine and kills Kg Priarius 378 (AM XXXI, 10,6) Genobaudes II, Marcomer and Sunno regales who had invaded Gaul nr Cologne, defeated in Charbonniere. Marcomer and Sunno sought out by Arbogast (himself a Frank "urged on by tribal hatreds") Magister Militum in the west 389 (quoted by Gregory of Tours, Bk II, 9, from Sulpicius Alexander, who said Marcomer = warleader of Amsivarii and Chatti [= not a Frankish tribe] who opposed Arbogast). Faramund only in Lib Hist Franc, 5 = son of Sunno Theudemer King of the Franks son of Richemer and Ascyla, executed says GT II, 9 (quoting from consular lists). This Richemer = ?Richomer consul 384, MM in East 388-93 who was uncle of Arbogast d.394 (supra).

The Franks and Alemans invaded Gaul 274-5, but the Franks had previously attacked the coasts of Gaul and Spain 260's, entered the medieval and established pirate base in Africa c.260-72 (Aurelius Victor liber de caesaribus, 33).
Frankish tribes

The Chamavi are first mentioned 289 (next to the Salians on the lower Rhine); the Bructeri in 307 (nrth of river Lippe); the Chattuari in 306 (along the river Sieg); and the Quadi and Salians in 357 on the Rhine next to the Almare: the Salians were settled by the Emperor Julian in Toxandria); the Amsivari and Tubantes c.364 opposite Cologne along with the Usipetes; the Tencteri lived further north in the Ruhr.

Frankish Chiefs and Kings

Gennobaudes I king who submitted to Maximianus 287 (Panegyriques latins, ed E.Galletier, p89)
Ascaric and Merogaisus (called regales (kinglets/chieftains) of the Bructeri) invaded Gaul 306, defeated by Constantine I and killed by animals in arena at Trier.

Mallobaudes King of the Franks who killed Macrianus king of Alemans in or after 374, appointed as commander of household troops by Gratian and sent with general Nannianus vs Lentienses Alemanni (Ammianus Marcellinus, XXX, 3,7) defeats Alemans near Rhine and kills Kg Priarius 378 (AM XXXI, 10,6)

Genobaudes II, Marcomer and Sunno regales who had invaded Gaul nr Cologne, defeated in Charbonniere. Marcomer and Sunno sought out by Arbogast (himself a Frank "urged on by tribal hatreds") Magister Militum in the west 389 (quoted by Gregory of Tours, Bk II, 9, from Sulpicius Alexander, who said Marcomer = warleader of Amsivarii and Chatti [= not a Frankish tribe] who opposed Arbogast).

Faramund only in Lib Hist Franc, 5 = son of Sunno

Theudemer King of the Franks son of Richemer and Ascyla, executed says GT II, 9 (quoting from consular lists). This Richemer = ?Richomer consul 384, MM in East 388-93 who was uncle of Arbogast d.394 (supra).