Marcomer was a Frankish duke (dux, leader) in the late 4th century. Gregory of Tours mentions him in his Historia Francorum together with dukes Genobaud and Sunno. Gregory doubts that they were called kings. They crossed the Rhine, raided the Roman province of Germania and threatened Cologne, in the latter years of Western Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus (ca. 388). They reportedly also led Chatti and Ampsivarii. Marcomer may have been a predecessor of the legendary duke Pharamond and of Chlogio, an ancestor of the Frankish royal dynasty of the Merovingians. The Franks were one of several west Germanic tribes who entered the late Roman Empire from Frisia as foederati and established a lasting realm in an area that covers most of modern-day France and the region of Franconia in Germany, forming the historic kernel of both these two modern... (3rd century - 4th century - 5th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ... Gregory of Tours (c. ... Map of the Roman Empire, with the provinces, after 120 AD. In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin, provincia, pl. ... Germanía or jerigonza is the term used in Spanish to refer to the argot used by criminals or in jails. ... Map of Germany showing Cologne Cologne (German: Köln [kœln]  listen?) is, in terms of population, the fourth largest city in Germany and largest city of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... The Western Roman Empire is the name given to the western half of the Roman Empire after its division by Diocletian. ... Magnus Maximus (Welsh: Macsen Wledig), also Maximianus, (c. ... Events Bahram IV becomes king of Persia. ... The Chatti (also Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe settled in central and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper reaches of the Weser river and in the valleys and mountains of the Eder, Fulda and Werra river regions, a district approximately corresponding to Hesse-Cassel, though probably... The Ampsivarii were a Germanic tribe mentioned by the Roman author Gaius Cornelius Tacticus, writing in the 1st century C.E. Their homeland was located in what is now northwestern Germany around the river Ems, which flows into the North Sea. ... Categories: People stubs | Frankish people ... Clodio1 (c. ... For other uses of the term Merovingian, see Merovingian (disambiguation). ...