The Ripuarian Franks (also spelled Riparian) were a subtribe within the Germanic Franks. "Ripuarian" means "of the river" and is principally opposed to "Salian," meaning "salty," or possibly "of the river Isala" (IJssel), as in the Salian Franks. The Ripuarians were indeed "of the river," living primarily in the Rhineland, while the Salians were salty only in the sense that they lived along the coast, in what is today Belgium and the Netherlands. This article is about the Frankish people and society. ... Satellite image of the IJssel basin River IJssel, sometimes called Gelderse IJssel (Gelderland IJssel) to avoid confusion with its Holland counterpart, is a 120 km long branch of the Rhine in the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel. ... The Salian Franks were a subgroup of the Franks. ... The Rhineland (Rheinland in German) is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. ...
The capital of the Ripuarian Franks in the latter half of the 5th century was Cologne. For other uses, see Cologne (disambiguation). ...
The Ripuarian king Sigebert the Lame fought alongside Clovis I in the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alamanni and was badly injured in the fighting, earning him the moniker the Lame. In 507, he was murdered by his son Cloderic, who in turn was dethroned and killed by Clovis. The Ripuarian Franks then took Clovis as their king and merged politically into the Frankish Kingdom. Clovis I (variously spelled Chlodowech or Chlodwig, giving modern French Louis and modern German Ludwig) (c. ... The Battle of Tolbiac was fought between the Franks under Clovis I and the Alamanni, traditionally in 496. ... area settled by the Alamanni, and sites of Roman-Alamannic battles, 3rd to 6th century The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were originally an alliance of Germanic tribes located around the upper Main, land that is today part of Germany. ... Events Battle of Vouillé: Clovis I defeats the Visigoths near Poitiers, ends Visigothic power in Gaul. ... The Frankish Empire was the territory of the Franks, from the 5th to the 10th centuries, from 481 ruled by Clovis I of the Merovingian Dynasty, the first king of all the Franks. ...
The name Franks seems to have been given in the 4th century to a group of Germanic peoples dwelling north of the Main and reaching as far as the shores of the North Sea; south of the Main was the home of the Alamanni.
In any case, eventually, Franks fought (451) in the Roman ranks at the great battle of Mauriac (the Catalaunian Fields), which arrested the progress of Attila into Gaul; and in the Vita Lupi, which, though undoubtedly of later date, is a recension of an earlier document, the name of Meroveus appears among the combatants.
In this battle Sigebert, the king of the Ripuarians, was wounded in the knee and limped during the remainder of his life - hence his surname Claudus (the Lame).
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