The Salian Franks, also called the Salians (Latin: Salii; Greek: Σάλιοι, Salioi), were a northwestern subgroup of the early Franks who appear in the historical...
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historians into two groups – the Salian Franks to the west, who came south via the Rhine delta; and the Ripuarian or Rhineland Franks to the east, who eventually...
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river in modern Germany. Their western neighbours were the Salii, or "Salian Franks", who were named already in late Roman records, and settled with imperial...
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Merovech (redirect from Merovech of Franks)
ancestor of the Merovingian dynasty. He was reportedly a king of the Salian Franks, but records of his existence are mixed with legend and myth. The most...
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Clovis I (redirect from Clovis, King of the Franks)
*Hlōdowig; c. 466 – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Franks under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group...
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was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 9th century. After the Salian Franks settled in Roman Gaul (roughly, present-day France)...
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putative relationship between the Salians and the Merovingians gave rise to the family name, because the Salian Franks had been the most renowned Frankish...
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List of Frankish kings (redirect from Kings of the Franks)
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...
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Frankish paganism (redirect from Salian Mythology)
people, in whom Perry thinks the Franks may have shared a belief. With the Germanic groups along the North Sea the Franks shared a special dedication to...
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Childeric I (redirect from Childeric I of Franks)
a real sequence of events whereby Childeric was a leader of "Salian" or "Belgian" Franks based in the Romanized areas conquered by Chlodio, who were allies...
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Northern Gaul by Salian Franks led by king Chlodio, who conquers the cities of Tournai and Cambrai. 448, Defeat of the Salian Franks in the Battle of...
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into the confederation of the Salian Franks, whose identity emerged in the first half of the third century. Salian Franks appear in Roman texts as both...
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Francia (redirect from Kingdom of the Franks)
grandson, ruled a Salian kingdom from Tournai as a foederatus of the Romans. Childeric is chiefly important to history for bequeathing the Franks to his son...
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Chlodio (redirect from Chlodion of Franks)
border regions where the Franks had already been established for a long time. He was possibly a descendant of the Salian Franks, who Roman sources report...
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Netherlands in the Roman era (section Franks)
Salian Franks. Franks appear in Roman texts as both allies and enemies (laeti or dediticii). In 288 the emperor Maximian defeated the Salian Franks,...
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Salic law (redirect from Salian Law)
The Salic law (/ˈsælɪk/ or /ˈseɪlɪk/; Latin: Lex salica), also called the Salian law, was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by the...
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Audofleda (redirect from Audofleda of the Salian Franks)
marriage to Theoderic the Great. She was the sister of Clovis I, King of the Franks. She married Theoderic the Great, King of the Ostrogoths (471–526), around...
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Salland, were conquered and assimilated by the Saxons) Low Rhine Franks (Salian Franks that stayed in the Low Rhine region of Eastern Austrasia, later...
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Franks and Saxons. Franks and Saxons entered the Maas river area in what is now the Netherlands, and displaced the recently settled Salian Franks from...
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forts were manned by Saxon soldiers. From their base land Toxandria the Salian Franks further expanded into the Roman empire. The first incursion into the...
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migrated to the Roman Empire during the Migration Period the Salian Franks and the Ripuarian Franks, were not Arian, but still pagan. The Arians believed that...
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Terra Salica was a type of land property invented by the Salian Franks. The Merovingians had two types of land property: de alode and terra Salica; the...
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Countries, 1550–1670. Uitgeverij Verloren. p. 17. ISBN 9789087045159. "Franks". Columbia Encyclopedia. Columbia University Press. 2013. Retrieved 1 February...
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migrants who would become known as the Franks began to exercise their influence over the west of France. The Franks shared many of the customs and superstitions...
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Netherlands in the Early Middle Ages (section Franks)
cultural divide grew between the Franks remaining in the north and the rulers far to the south in what is now France. Salian Franks continued to reside in their...
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Netherlands and Belgium (to the Salian Franks) were de facto lost forever for the Roman empire. This gave the Salian Franks a base from which they could...
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battle was a victory for the Franks, and led to the conquest of the Roman rump state of Soissons, a milestone for the Franks in their attempt to establish...
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BC–c. 5th AD) Germania Inferior (83–c. 5th) Salian Franks Batavi unpopulated (4th–c. 5th) Saxons Salian Franks (4th–c. 5th) Frisian Kingdom (c. 6th–734)...
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Frankish War (428) (section The invasion of the Franks)
Frankish people consisted of two subgroups, the Salian Franks and the Ripuarian Franks, of which the Salians resided within the Roman Empire as foederati...
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such as the Alemanni and Franks. The Crisis of the Third Century included raids on Roman Germania by Alemanni and Franks, and the area briefly became...
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