Definitions

1. Alamannia or Alemannia was the territory inhabited by the Alamanni after they broke through the Roman limes in 213.

Forming Alemannia

1. The Alemanni settled the Swiss plateau in the 5th century and the valleys of the Alps in the 8th century, forming Alemannia.

Marriage

1. Alemannia successfully repulsed the invaders and the peace that followed was sealed by the marriage of Rudolf and Burchard's daughter. (Web site)

Control

1. Around AD 500, Alemannia came under the control of the waxing Frankish Empire. (Web site)

Alamanni

1. They evidently filled a void left when the previous inhabitants - the Alamanni - migrated south to the region named after them, Alemannia. (Web site)

Restless

1. Alemannia, however, remained restless, with Duke Lantfrid in the late 720s AD, expressing independence by issuing revisions of the laws of the Alemans.

Pepin

1. His ministers had been in contact with Pepin and may have convinced him and Louis the German to rebel, promising him Alemannia, the kingdom of Charles. (Web site)

Burgundy

1. In the year 837, Louis crowned Charles king over all of Alemannia and Burgundy and gave him a portion of his brother Louis's land. (Web site)
2. Modern-day Switzerland was therefore then divided between the kingdoms of Alemannia and Burgundy.
3. Alemannia (yellow) and Upper Burgundy (green) around 1000. (Web site)

Carloman

1. By 743 AD, Carloman was vowing to impose a greater degree of control over Alemannia. (Web site)

Bavaria

1. He also gave St. Boniface a safe conduct for his missions in Thuringia, Alemannia, and Bavaria. (Web site)
2. In the subsequent decade, Charles led the Frankish army against the eastern duchies, Bavaria and Alemannia, and the southern duchies, Aquitaine and Provence.

Franconia

1. The family rose in the Carolingian Empire to possess lands in not only Alemannia, but Bavaria, Franconia, and Italy. (Web site)

Francia

1. The leaders of Alemannia, Bavaria, Francia and Saxonia elected Conrad I of the Franks, not a Carolingian, as their leader in 911.
2. Also, Francia cannot be extended as far east of the Rhine as Thuringia or Alemannia in 500.

Frankish Empire

1. Alemannia became the Duchy of Swabia, a region at times more or less loosely connected to the Frankish empire.
2. Alemannia lost its distinct jurisdictional identity when Charles Martel absorbed it into the Frankish empire, early in the 8th century. (Web site)

Alemanni

1. The region was first known to the Romans as Alemannia because at the time its settlers were the Germanic tribe of Alamans (or Alemanni). (Web site)
2. They evidently filled a void left when the previous inhabitants - the Alemanni - migrated south to the region named after them, Alemannia.
3. He also forced the Alemanni to recognize Frankish authority again and encouraged Christian missionaries in Alemannia and Bavaria. (Web site)

Alemannia

1. The division of the kingdom gave Austrasia, Alemannia, and Thuringia to Carloman and Neustria, Provence, and Burgundy to Pepin. (Web site)
2. The dukes of Alemannia, Bavaria, Franconia and Saxony elected Conrad I of the Franks, not a Carolingian, as their leader in 911.
3. Bavaria and Alemannia (as Swabia) formed two of the younger duchies, while Saxony and Franconia were two other new creations.

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2. Frankish Empire
3. Franconia
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