4th and 5th century Franks in today's Netherlands and Belgium
"Salians" redirects here. For the eleventh-century dynasty, see Salian dynasty. For the Roman priests, see Salii.
Salian settlement in Toxandria in 358 where Julian the Apostate made them dediticii.
Roman Empire
Salian Franks
Germanic tribes east of the Rhine
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 record in the fourth and fifth centuries. They lived west of the Lower Rhine in what was then the Roman Empire and today the Netherlands and Belgium.
The traditional historiography sees the Salians as one of the main divisions of the Franks alongside the Ripuarians. Recent scholarship, however, has often questioned the ethnic significance of both these terms.[1]
The SalianFranks, also called the Salians (Latin: Salii; Greek: Σάλιοι, Salioi), were a northwestern subgroup of the early Franks who appear in the historical...
historians into two groups – the SalianFranks to the west, who came south via the Rhine delta; and the Ripuarian or Rhineland Franks to the east, who eventually...
ancestor of the Merovingian dynasty. He was reportedly a king of the SalianFranks, but records of his existence are mixed with legend and myth. The most...
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...
was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 9th century. After the SalianFranks settled in Roman Gaul (roughly, present-day France)...
France". Clovis succeeded his father, Childeric I, as a king of the SalianFranks in 481, and eventually came to rule an area extending from what is now...
river in modern Germany. Their western neighbours were the Salii, or "SalianFranks", who were named already in late Roman records, and settled with imperial...
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...
putative relationship between the Salians and the Merovingians gave rise to the family name, because the SalianFranks had been the most renowned Frankish...
into the confederation of the SalianFranks, whose identity emerged in the first half of the third century. SalianFranks appear in Roman texts as both...
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...
original territory of the Franks, including both the so-called SalianFranks and Ripuarian Franks, which Clovis I, King of the Franks (481–511) conquered after...
border regions where the Franks had already been established for a long time. He was possibly a descendant of the SalianFranks, who Roman sources report...
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...
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...
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...
the Rhineland and displaced the recently settled SalianFranks from Batavi, whereupon some of the Salians began to move into the Belgian territory of Toxandria...
is succeeded by his 15-year-old son Clovis, who becomes ruler of the SalianFranks in the province Gallia Belgica (modern Belgium) until his death in 511...
migrated to the Roman Empire during the Migration Period the SalianFranks and the Ripuarian Franks, were not Arian, but still pagan. The Arians believed that...
forts were manned by Saxon soldiers. From their base land Toxandria the SalianFranks further expanded into the Roman empire. The first incursion into the...
Netherlands and Belgium (to the SalianFranks) were de facto lost forever for the Roman empire. This gave the SalianFranks a base from which they could...
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...
certainty, but it is thought to be the language spoken by the SalianFranks. Even though the Franks are traditionally categorized as Weser–Rhine Germanic, Dutch...
Terra Salica was a type of land property invented by the SalianFranks. The Merovingians had two types of land property: de alode and terra Salica; the...
Countries, 1550–1670. Uitgeverij Verloren. p. 17. ISBN 9789087045159. "Franks". Columbia Encyclopedia. Columbia University Press. 2013. Retrieved 1 February...
cultural divide grew between the Franks remaining in the north and the rulers far to the south in what is now France. SalianFranks continued to reside in their...
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