Fierce warrior, defensor of Europe and Christianity, and nicknamed “The Hammer” for his prowess, Charles Martel was the last true ruler of the Frankish Merovingian dynasty (his successor, Childeric III, was placed on the throne by Martel’s sons, who eventually dethroned him, thus ending the Merovingian line). Although nowadays he is regarded as one of …
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They lived along the Baltic coast and in the area of modern Schleswig, and although the Roman historian Tacitus knew nothing of them when he wrote the Germania in the 1st century CE, they surely were to play a prominent role in the following centuries. The Saxons were a Germanic tribe who appeared in all …
A question comes naturally: who led the early Germanic communities?Did they have a king or a ruler similar to the Roman model?Well, it seems that no central authority was present, at least at the time when Caesar writes: while in peace, a local figure would sometimes interfere with the disputes within the village - or …
Tacitus also distinguished the individual tribes and their territories: the Chatti lived in modern Hesse, the Frisii inhabited the coastland between the Rhine and the Ems, while the mouth of the Weser was home of the Chauci and Cherusci (Arminius’ tribe). The Suebi occupied the territories of Thuringia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg, with Semnones and …
Obscure and soaked in mystery, the origins of the Germanic people who thrived in Northern Europe go back thousands of years.We know, from some historical reports and archaeological discoveries, that during the Bronze Age (3000 - 1200 BCE, ca) they inhabited the territories of modern south Sweden and Norway, Denmark, and North Germany; some of …
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