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An a baptism Alemanni The Alemanni also Alamanni Suebi Swabians were a confederation of Germanic tribes on the Upper Rhine River First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign ofCaracalla of the Alemanni captured the Agri Decumates in and l

Alemanni The Alemanni also Alamanni Suebi Swabians were a confederation of Germanic tribes on the Upper Rhine River First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign ofCaracalla of the Alemanni captured the Agri Decumates in and later expanded into present-day Alsace and northern Switzerland leading to the establishment of the Old High German language in those regions by the eighth century namedAlamannia In the Alemanni were conquered by Frankish leader Clovis and incorporated into his dominions Mentioned as still pagan allies of the Christian Franks the Alemanni were gradually Christianized during the seventh century The Lex Alamannorum is a record of their customary law during this period Until the eighth century Frankish suzerainty over Alemannia was mostly nominal After an uprising by Theudebald Duke of Alamannia though Carloman executed the Alamannic nobility and installed Area settled by the Alemanni and sites of RomanAlemannic battles rd to th centuries Frankish dukes During the later and weaker years of the Carolingian Empire the Alemannic counts became almost independent and a struggle for supremacy took place between them and the Bishopric of Constance The chief family in Alamannia was that of the counts of Raetia Curiensis who were sometimes called margraves and one of whom Burchard II established the Duchy of Swabia which was recognized by Henry the Fowler in and became a stem duchy of the Holy Roman Empire The area settled by the Alemanni corresponds roughly to the area where Alemannic German dialects remain spoken including German Swabia and Baden French Alsace German-speaking Switzerland and Austrian Vorarlberg The French language name of Germany Allemagne is derived from their name from Old French aleman t from French loaned into a number of other languages Contents Name History First appearance in historical record Alemanni and Hermunduri Ptolemy's Geography Concentration of Germanic peoples under Ariovistus Con icts with the Roman Empire List of battles between Romans and Alemanni Subjugation by the Franks Culture Language Political organization Religion See also CReferences Literature External links Name According to Gaius Asinius Quadratus quoted in the mid-sixth century by Byzantine historian Agathias the name Alamanni ?? ? ? means all men It indicates that they were a conglomeration drawn from various Germanic tribes The Romans and the Greeks called them as such mentioned This derivation was accepted by Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and by the anonymous contributor of notes assembled from the papers of Nicolas Fréret published in who noted that it was the name used by outsiders for those who called themselves the Suebi This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the name Walafrid Strabo in the th century remarked in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions that only foreigners called them the Alemanni but that they gave themselves the name of Suebi An alternative suggestion by Francis Palgraveproposed derivation from alah sanctuary The Suebi are given the alternative name of Ziuwari as Cyuuari in an Old High German gloss interpreted by Jacob