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The older tribes which are most confidently believed to have become Franks by the 4th century include the Chamavi, Bructeri, and Chattuari. [15] The Chamavi are called Franks in the Tabula Peutingeriana, [16] a 13th-century copy of a 4th or 5th century atlas of Roman roads that reflects information from the 3rd century. [17]
The Franks, Germanic-speaking peoples that invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, were first led by individuals called dukes and reguli. The earliest group of Franks that rose to prominence was the Salian Merovingians , who conquered most of Roman Gaul , as well as the Gaulish territory of the Visigothic Kingdom , following the ...
The Merovingian dynasty (/ ˌ m ɛ r ə ˈ v ɪ n dʒ i ə n /) was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until 751. [1] They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the Franks and northern Gallo-Romans under their rule.
The term "Franks" emerged in the 3rd century AD as a term for several Germanic tribes who settled on the northern Rhine frontier of the Roman Empire, including the Bructeri, Ampsivarii, Chamavi, Chattuarii and Salians. While all of them had a tradition of participating in the Roman military, the Salians were allowed to settle within the Roman ...
Numerous small Frankish petty kingdoms existed during the 5th century. The Salian Franks was the first-known Frankish tribe that settled with official Roman permission within the empire, first in Batavia in the Rhine-Maas delta, and then in 375 in Toxandria, which in the present day consists of the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands ...
The Salian Franks, also called the ... From the first half of the fifth century onwards, a group of Franks pushed south west through the boundary of the Roman ...
Frankish (reconstructed endonym: * Frankisk), [8] [9] also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 10th centuries. Franks under king Chlodio would settle in Roman Gaul in the 5th century.
Christian states 495 AD (en) Christianization of the Franks was the process of converting the pagan Franks to Catholicism during the late 5th century and early 6th century. It was started by Clovis I, regulus of Tournai, with the insistence of his wife, Clotilde and Saint Remigius, the bishop of Reims.