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  ninemsn Encarta - Franks
The Salian Franks inhabited the territory along the lower stretches of the Rhine, and the Ripuarian Franks lived along the middle course of the river.
The Salians were conquered by the Roman emperor Julian in 358 and became allies of Rome.
Under the Salian king Clovis I, founder of the Merovingian dynasty, the power and extent of the Frankish kingdom grew considerably.
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 Ripuarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ripuarian, Rhinish, or Middle Franconian is a western Germanic dialect group in Rhineland, eastern Belgium and southern Dutch Limburg from northwest of Düsseldorf and Cologne to Aachen in the west, and Siegen in the east.
Ripuarian was the name of a Frank who lived during the 4th century near Cologne along the Rhine.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ripuarian   (165 words)

  
 Franks. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The two major divisions were the Salian Franks in the north and the Ripuarian Franks in the south.
Clovis permanently united the Salian and Ripuarian Franks, accepted Roman Catholicism, and founded the Frankish empire.
By the conquest of the First Kingdom of Burgundy, of Bavaria, of the territories of the Alemanni, the Thuringians, and the Saxons, and of the kingdom of the Lombards, the Frankish empire grew (6th–9th cent.) to include most of France, the Low Countries, Germany W of the Elbe, Austria, Switzerland, and N and central Italy.
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The Salic law did not allow of the custom of negative proofs; that is, if a person brought a demand or charge against another, he was obliged by the Salic law to prove it, and it was not sufficient for the second to deny it, which is agreeable to the laws of almost all nations.
The law of the Ripuarian Franks had quite a different spirit;[67] it was contented with negative proofs, and the person) against whom a demand or accusation was brought, might clear himself, in most cases, by swearing, in conjunction with a certain number of witnesses, that he had not committed the crime laid to his charge.
As by the Salic, Ripuarian, and other barbarous laws, crimes were punished with pecuniary fines; they had not in those days, as we have at present, a public officer who had the care of criminal prosecutions.
www.constitution.org /cm/sol_28.txt   (14745 words)

  
 Franks - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Freedom did not extend to women or to the population of slaves that moved with the free Franks.
By the 9th century, if not earlier, this division had in practice become virtually non-existent, but continued for some time to have implications for the legal system under which a person could go on trial.
Gregory's sources tentatively identify Meroveus (Merovech) as king of the Franks and possibly a son of Chlodio.
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 The Franks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Identified by these writers as the Salians, Ripuarians, and Chatti, they are said to have shared the same language and to have had many similar laws.
The Ripuarian Franks and the Chatti raided across the middle Rhine frontier during the first quarter of the 5th century.
By c.470, Trier was in Ripuarian hands, and thereafter Metz, Toul, and Verdun fell to the Franks.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Notitia Dignitatum (Register of Dignitaries), c. 400
of the frontier of Mauritania Caesariensis; of the Tripolitan frontier; of Pannonia prima and ripuarian Noricum; of Pannonia secunda; of ripuarian Valeria; of Raetia prima and secunda; of Sequanica; of the Armorican and Nervican tract; of Belgica secunda; of Germania prima; of Britannia; of Mogontiacensis.
of Dalmatia; of Pannonia prima; of Mediterranean Noricum; of ripuarian Noricum,
Mauretania Caesariensis; Tripolitanus; Pannonia secunda; ripuarian Valeria; Pannonia prima and ripuarian Noricum; Raetia prima and secunda; Belgica, secunda; Germania prima; the Britains; Mogontiacensis.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/notitiadignitatum.html   (5642 words)

  
 Ripuarian Franks -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ripuarian Franks -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The Ripuarian Franks ((A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)) river Franks) were a subgroup of the (A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll) Franks.
They are distinguished from the (A member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD) Salian Franks (salian means 'salty', i.e.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/ripuarian_franks.htm   (93 words)

  
 Requests for new languages - Meta
Ripuarian, being a Middle German variety, is really in between, and qualifies even more clearly as separate language.
Ripuarian certainly is a distinct language, consisting of more than 100 dialects.
Kölsch is the most prominent ripuarian language (by public knowledge and recognition, number of speakers, scholar and reseach papers, etc.) but accounts at most for one third of overall ripurian speakers (estimated).
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Franks
The latter seems to have reigned over all the Cis-Rhenish Franks, and the monarchy was divided among his descendants, although the exact time of the division is not known.
There were now two Frankish groups: the Ripuarians, who occupied the banks of the Rhine and whose kings resided in Cologne, and the Salians who had established themselves in the Low Countries.
Their sovereigns, both Salian and Ripuarian, belonged to the Merovingian family and seem to have been descended from Clodion.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06238a.htm   (5048 words)

  
 Where Did the Other Tribes of Israel Migrate to?
In Yair Davidy's book "The Tribes” he writes: "In west Europe the Franks were divided into several groups of whom the main ones are assumed to have been the Ripuarian Franks, the Salian Franks and the Chatti or Hessians.
The Ripuarian Franks were assumedly so-called by the Romans since they were first known to them on the banks of the Rhine (in Latin "ripe" means river-bank) The name is also given as Ribauri and this name in Hebrew is another form of REUBEN...
They elevated one branch of the family of Joseph and then lost to the other branch on both sea and land when the British defeated them in the battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo.
www.rogerswebsite.com /articles/Where-Other-Tribes-Migrated.htm   (1890 words)

  
 Ripuarian Franks - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ripuarian Franks - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Ripuarian Franks (river Franks) were a subgroup of the Franks.
This page was last modified 06:35, 27 Apr 2005.
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 Ripuarian Franks Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cologne
As a result of its favourable situation, the city survived the stormy period of the migrations of the Teutonic tribes.
When the Ripuarian Franks took possession of the country in the fifth century, it became the residence of their king.
On account of the services of the Bishops of Cologne to the Merovingian kings, the city was to have been the metropolitan see of Saint Boniface, but Mainz was chosen, for unknown reasons, and Cologne did not become an archbishopric until the time of Charlemagne.
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 icira.net : Franks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Franks is a group of Germanic tribes that first appeared around the middle of the 3rd century CE along the middle and lower Rhine.
The Franks appeared in the Roman provinces around 253 CE and soon thereafter established themselves in two principal groups, the Salian and the Ripuarian.
In 486 CE, Clovis overthrew Syagrius, the last Roman governor in Gaul, and then successively subjugated the Alamanni, the Burgundians, the Visigoths of Aquitania, and the Ripuarian Franks.
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 Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws: Book 28
The kings indeed of the first race struck out of the Salic and Ripuarian laws whatever was absolutely inconsistent with Christianity, but left the main part untouched.
This practice was vastly different from that of the Ripuarian, and other barbarous laws, where it was customary for the party accused to clear himself by swearing he was not guilty, and by making his relatives also swear that he had told the truth.
These laws could be suitable only to a people remarkable for their natural simplicity and candour; we shall see presently that the legislators were obliged to take proper methods to prevent their being abused.
www.constitution.org /cm/sol_28.htm   (17437 words)

  
 German Genealogy: Dialects
Mosel Franconian is spoken in the region of the old Electorate of Trier.
Ripuarian is the region of the old Electorate of Cologne (Köln).
The southern linguistic boundary to East Franconian is formed by the ridge of the Thuringian forest.
www.genealogienetz.de /misc/dialect-e.html   (1405 words)

  
 Germans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
However, this may be a misperception because the Franks were Roman foederati in northeastern France.
The Salian Franks especially were culturally Romanized, certainly much more so than the Ripuarian or Rhenish Franks to the east and south.
There was also the possibility of late but tenacious Roman resistance led by an obscure personage called Syagrius.
www.worldhistoryplus.com /g/germans.html   (2338 words)

  
 Family Ancestry
In the wake of the Romans, who had abandoned the south of the island by 410 in order to concentrate on more pressing difficulties closer to home, what is now England was progressively settled by successive, and often complementary waves of Germanic tribesmen.
Among them were the (more commonly mentioned) Angles, Saxons and Jutes together with undoubtedly large numbers of Frisians and Ripuarian Franks who had been partly displaced on mainland Europe.
Increasingly the Romano-British population was assimilated, a process enabled due to a lack of clear unity by the native inhabitants against a unified armed foe, and the culture pushed westwards and northwards.
www.family-ancestry.co.uk /Anglo-Saxon-Conquest.htm   (345 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: The Ripuarian Law: Inheritance of Allodial Land, c. 450   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Medieval Sourcebook: The Ripuarian Law: Inheritance of Allodial Land, c.
The inheritance of land under the barbarians would mean the inheritance of allodial land (freehold land), and in addition there was inheritance of movables.
If you do reduplicate the document, indicate the source.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/450allods.html   (296 words)

  
 Ripuarian results found while searching for Ripuarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Rhineland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Rhineland has never constituted one political entity but various.
During the 5th century, it was the home of the Ripuarian Franks.
The Salian Franks extended their rule over the middle and lower Rhine.
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 Legal Definition of Ripuarian Law
The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon On * Ripuarian Law *
RIPUARIAN LAW - A code of laws of the Franks, who occupied the country upon the Rhine, the Meuse and Scheldt, who were collectively known by the name Ripuarians, and their laws as Ripuarian law.
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 Notitia Dignitatum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Six military counts: of Italy; of Africa; of Tingitania; of the tractus Argentoratensis; of the Britains; of the Saxon shore of Britain.
Thirteen dukes: of the frontier of Mauritania Caesariensis; of the Tripolitan frontier; of Pannonia prima and ripuarian Noricum; of Pannonia secunda; of ripuarian Valeria; of Raetia prima and secunda; of Sequanica; of the Armorican and Nervican tract; of Belgica secunda; of Germania prima; of Britannia; of Mogontiacensis.
The ten dukes of the frontiers mentioned below: Mauretania Caesariensis; Tripolitanus; Pannonia secunda; ripuarian Valeria; Pannonia prima and ripuarian Noricum; Raetia prima and secunda; Belgica, secunda; Germania prima; the Britains; Mogontiacensis.
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 Find in a Library: Laws of the Salian and Ripuarian Franks
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 Ethnologue report for Ripuarian Franconian
Ethnologue > Web version > Language family index > Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, West Middle German, Ripuarian Franconian
Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, West Middle German, Ripuarian Franconian
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