Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 Chattuari were described as Franks living across from Xanten in an account of a Roman attack in 360 AD, [ 18 ] and the Bructeri were also described as Franks ...
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 Kingdom of the Franks (Latin: Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, or just Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Frankish Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties during the Early Middle Ages .
The Salian Franks, also called the Salians (Latin: Salii; Greek: Σάλιοι, Salioi), were a Frankish people who lived in what was is now the Netherlands in the fourth century. They appear under this name only once in written records, when they came into conflict with Roman forces led by Julian the Apostate in 358 AD.
The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.
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.
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.
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 .