Kingdom of the Alemanni (Frankish)

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Was the kingdom of the Germanic Tribe of the Alemanni in southwestern Germany. The Kingdom was a Frankish Vassal since the military expedition of Clovis in 496.

Establishment

Chronology

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1. Frankish-Alemannic War

Was a war between the Frankish Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Alemanni, both kingdoms created on Roman territory by Germanic peoples during the migration period.

2. Ostrogothic cession of Provence to the Franks

During the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire, the Ostrogoths ceded Provence to the Frankish Kingdom.

3. Gothic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between the Roman Empire and the Goths.

3.1.Gothic War (535-554)

Was a war between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy. The war had its roots in the ambition of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I to recover the provinces of the former Western Roman Empire, which the Romans had lost to invading barbarian tribes.

3.1.1.First Intervention (Gothic War)

Was the first Eastern Roman campaign in Italy under General Belisarius during the Gothic War (535-554).

4. Frankish Partitions

The Frankish Kingdom was partitioned and reuinited several times as the Frankish rulers used to divide their territories equally among their heirs. This lead also to a number of wars and revolts.

4.1.War between Theudebert and Theuderic

Was a war between two Teilreiche (polities emerging from the hereditary divisions of the Frankish Kingdom that repeatedly divided and reunited) of the Frankish Kingdom.

5. Blood court at Cannstatt

Was a council meeting at Cannstatt, now a part of Stuttgart, in 746 that took place as a result of an invitation by the Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, Carloman, the eldest son of Charles Martel, of all nobles of the Alemanni. Carloman arrested several thousand noblemen who attended accusing them of taking part in the uprising of Theudebald, Duke of Alamannia and Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, and summarily executed them all for high treason.

6. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

Disestablishment