Councilors

Rätovarians (also Raetovarians , Latin: Raetobarii ) were an Alemannic tribe, probably in the Nördlinger Ries . The tribe is only mentioned in the Notitia dignitatum , after which they served together with the Bucinobanten in the court army ( auxilia palatina ) of the Eastern Empire.

The name is made up of the name of the Roman province of Raetia and the Germanic stem * -warijôz »inhabitant«, ie "inhabitant of the (former) province Raetia ".

swell

• Notitia dignitatum in partibus orientis 5.17 (Retobarii); 5.58 (Recobarii)

literature

• Karlheinz Fuchs, Martin Kempa, Rainer Redies: The Alamanni . 4th edition. License issue. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1535-9 (exhibition catalog, Stuttgart et al., State Archaeological Museum Baden-Württemberg et al., 1997–1998).
• Dieter Geuenich : History of the Alemanni . Verlag Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-012095-6 .
• Raetobarii. In: Johannes Hoops : Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 6: Donar-þórr - Dugout . Published by Heinrich Beck . 2nd completely revised and greatly expanded edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1986, ISBN 3-11-010468-7 .