Gennobaudes (4th century)

Gennobaudes († probably 388) was a Frankish military leader or small king in the late 4th century.

In 388 Gennobaudes carried out an attack on the Roman province of Germania together with the military leaders Marcomer and Sunno . The Franks broke through the Roman Limes and devastated the area around Cologne before they left with rich booty. While some of the Franks withdrew, others stayed behind on Roman territory. However, they were surprised by the counter-attack of the Roman officers Nanninus and Quintinus. Gennobaudes probably fell in the fighting on the coal forest ( silva carbonaria ).

The Frankish attack and the later Roman counter-offensive (which, however, failed) were described in detail by the late antique historian Sulpicius Alexander in his Historia . The work, which is obviously based on the classic models, has been lost to us, only a longer excerpt from the work of Gregory of Tours has survived , but it contains important information.

A relationship with the Frankish military leader Gennobaudes , who lived a good 100 years earlier, cannot be proven, but at least possible.

literature

Helmut Castritius : Gennobaudes. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 11, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015832-9 , pp. 77-79, esp. 78f.

Remarks

↑ D. h. the areas on the left bank of the Rhine. In his Historia, Sulpicius Alexander counts the areas on the left bank of the Rhine with the province of Germania as part of Gallia ; the region on the right bank of the Rhine, controlled by the Franks, he called Francia , see Heike Grahn-Hoek: Franci and Francia in the 6th century . In: Dieter Geuenich , Ingo Runde (Ed.): Name and Society in the Early Middle Ages (= German name research based on the history of language 2). Hildesheim 2006, p. 173ff., Here p. 180f.

↑ This forest, which is documented relatively often in medieval chronicles and which later became an important border section between Neustria and Austrasia , is mentioned for the first time by Sulpicius Alexander. It is a forest zone in what is now Belgium , which extends roughly from Thuin to Leuven . See generally R. Schmidt-Wiegand: Carbonaria silva . In: RGA 4 (1981), pp. 381f.

↑ Decem libri historiarum 2.9. For the course, see the explanations in the article Marcomer , who, like Sunno, was apparently able to break away.

↑ See Helmut Castritius : Gennobaudes. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 11, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015832-9 , pp. 77-79, here p. 77.

personal data
SURNAME	Gennobaudes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Frankish military leader
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century
DATE OF DEATH	at 388

[1] D. h. the areas on the left bank of the Rhine. In his Historia, Sulpicius Alexander counts the areas on the left bank of the Rhine with the province of Germania as part of Gallia ; the region on the right bank of the Rhine, controlled by the Franks, he called Francia , see Heike Grahn-Hoek: Franci and Francia in the 6th century . In: Dieter Geuenich , Ingo Runde (Ed.): Name and Society in the Early Middle Ages (= German name research based on the history of language 2). Hildesheim 2006, p. 173ff., Here p. 180f.

[2] This forest, which is documented relatively often in medieval chronicles and which later became an important border section between Neustria and Austrasia , is mentioned for the first time by Sulpicius Alexander. It is a forest zone in what is now Belgium , which extends roughly from Thuin to Leuven . See generally R. Schmidt-Wiegand: Carbonaria silva . In: RGA 4 (1981), pp. 381f.

[3] Decem libri historiarum 2.9. For the course, see the explanations in the article Marcomer , who, like Sunno, was apparently able to break away.

[4] See Helmut Castritius : Gennobaudes. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 11, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015832-9 , pp. 77-79, here p. 77.