Alemanni

This conquest gave Clovis the provinces afterwards known as Champagne and Lorraine.

In 496 he defeated the Alamanni in a great battle, the ultimate result of which was the annexation of the wide district on the right bank of the Rhine known in the Middle Ages as Swabia, comprising in terms of modern geography Alsace, Baden, Württemberg, the western part of Bavaria, and the northern part of Switzerland.

The well-timed conversion to Christianity and to the Catholic form of Christianity which followed this victory facilitated the next great conquest of Clovis.

In the year 507 he went forth to war against Alaric, king of the Visigoths, defeated and slew him, and thus added Aquitaine, that large and fertile region which lies between the Loire and the Pyrenees, to his dominions.

It can never have been the speech of the people.

And though here we must speak rather by conjecture than by proof, it is probable that the old Germanic institutions of the hundred and the Gau survived here in greater vigor than on the alien soil of Romanized Gaul.

It was also through the rulers of Austrasia that the connection, frail and precarious as it often might be, was kept up between the Frankish monarchy and the great semi-independent duchies of the Thuringians, the Alamanni, and the Bavarians.

Thus already in the fissure between the western and eastern portions of the Merovingian kingdom we see the rift, premonitory of that mighty chasm which now separates the great states of France and Germany.

clotilde was a devout christian and she wished very much to convert her husband who like most of his people was a worshipper of the heathen gods but clovis was not willing to give up his own religion Nevertheless, Clotilde continued to do everything she could to persuade him to become a Christian.

Soon after his marriage, Clovis had a war with a tribe called the Alemanni.

This tribe had crossed the Rhine from Germany and taken possession of some of the eastern provinces of Gaul.

Clovis speedily got his warriors together and marched against them.

Chapter 6 The German Kingdom to 1122 By the Treaty of Verdun in 843, the separation of the empire into three kingdoms was recognized.

Of these, the East Frankish or German seemed in some respects the weakest, as its inhabitants were the least advanced in civilization and were divided into separate peoples—Saxons, Franconians, Alamani or Schwabians, and Bavarians.

Each had its own distinctive customs, and at the head of each was a duke who was its hereditary sovereign.

Franconia and Saxony were the most powerful duchies.

Right

... at different parts of their time, and sometimes it was like the Germans, or it might be the Alamans, or it might be the, uh, in Russian they called them Nemets because it means someone who can't speak, because they spoke a different language to them.

Right.

In Finnish, it's Saksa, which comes from Saxons.

You got the Burgundians, B-U-R, uh, in the west.

The Alamanni.

That's where ...

The Aleman is the, is the, is the, is the French word for German to this day, but it was a Germanic tribe.

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In the name of the holy and indivisible Trinity, the Father namely and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Emperor Caesar Flavius Constantine in Christ Jesus, the Lord God our Saviour, one of that same Holy Trinity, faithful, merciful, supreme, beneficent, Alamannic, Gothic, Sarmatic, Germanic, Britannic, Hunnic, pious, fortunate, victor and triumpher, always august, to the most holy and blessed Father of the Fathers, Sylvester, Bishop of the city of Rome and Pope, and to all his successors, the pontiffs who are about to sit upon the chair of St. Peter until the end of time, and also to all the most reverend and of God beloved Catholic bishops, subjected by this our imperial decree throughout the whole world to this same holy Roman Church, who have been established now and in all previous times, grace, peace, charity, rejoicing, long-suffering, mercy be with you all from God the Father Almighty and from Jesus Christ his Son and from the Holy Ghost.

Our most gracious serenity desires in clear discourse through the page of this our imperial decree to bring to the knowledge of all the people in the whole world what things our Saviour and Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Most High Father, has most wonderfully seen fit to bring about by the intervention of our Father Sylvester, the highest pontiff and the universal Pope.

First indeed putting forth with the utmost confession of our heart for the purpose of instructing the mind of all of you our creed which we have learnt from the aforesaid most blessed Father and our confessor Sylvester the universal pontiff and then at length announcing the mercy of God which has been poured upon us.

Charles's high spirit could not brook Tassolo's insubordination, for it seemed to him to pass all bounds.

Accordingly, he straightway summoned his troops from all sides for a campaign against Bavaria, and appeared in person with a great army on the river Lech, which forms the boundary between the Bavarians and the Alemanni.

After pitching his camp upon its banks, he determined to put the Duke's disposition to the test by an embassy before entering the province.

Tassolo did not think that it was for his own or his people's good to persist, so he surrendered himself to the king, gave the hostages demanded, among them his own son Theodo, and promised by oath not to give ear to any one who should attempt to turn him from his allegiance.

He was murdered, in 810, by one of his own bodyguard, and so ended at once his life and the war that he had begun.

XV.

The Extent of Charlemagne's Conquests such are the wars most skilfully planned and successfully fought which this most powerful king waged during the forty-seven years of his reign he so largely increased the frank kingdom which was already great and strong when he received it at his father's hands that more than double its former territory was added to it the authority of the franks was formally confined to that part of gaul included between the rhine and the loire the ocean and the balearic sea to that part of germany which is inhabited by the so-called eastern franks and is bounded by saxony and the danube the rhine and the saale this stream separates the thuringians from the saurabians and to the country of the Alemanni and Bavarians.

By the wars above mentioned, he first made tributary Aquitania, Gascony, and the whole of the region of the Pyrenees, as far as the river Ebro, which rises in the land of the Navarrese, flows through the most fertile districts of Spain, and empties into the Balearic Sea, beneath the walls of the city of Tortosa.

No. Um, but Barbatio goes, "All right, we're gonna, we're gonna do a two-pronged attack into the Germanic territories across the Rhine." This doesn't really work out for some reasons.

So King Chnodomar, Chnodomarius, leads a massive army of Alamanni.

The Alamanni are a German tribe right across, right across the Danube in kind of what's, like, modern Bavaria, if I remember correctly.

Or more actually kind of like the southern Rhine area, Bavaria-ish.

Um, they are the reason that Germany has the name it does in Romance areas, Alamannia, or some version of that.

And they fight at the Battle of Argentoratum Or Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Like, he's just rad.