alemanni

Updated: June 12, 2025

Never, since his very first visit to a circus, had Caracalla left unnoticed for so long a time the progress of such a battle as this. However, nothing very remarkable had so far occurred, for the actual seizure of the camp had but just begun with the massacre of the Alemanni and the suicide of the women.

Georg Ebers - A Thorny Path — Complete

While the Alemanni appeared to be humbled by their recent calamities, the pride of Valentinian was mortified by the unexpected surprisal of Moguntiacum, or Mentz, the principal city of the Upper Germany.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

Without repeating the uniform and disgusting tale of slaughter and devastation, it is sufficient to observe, that Julian dictated his own conditions of peace to six of the haughtiest kings of the Alemanni, three of whom were permitted to view the severe discipline and martial pomp of a Roman camp.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

He was too late to save Rome from the Goths, by whom it was taken in December 546; but he recovered it in the following February. After his recall by his envious sovereign in September 548, Rome was once more taken by the Goths. The successful repulse of the Franks and Alemanni finally restored the kingdom to the rule of the emperor. Belisarius died on March 13, 565.

- The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History

After their overthrow by Clovis, king of the Salian Franks, they ceased to exist as one nation, and were dispersed over Gaul, Switzerland, and Nether Italy. From them L'Allemagne, the French name for Germany, is derived Alemannia, the country inhabited by the Alemanni

Julius Caesar - De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries

Every forest, and every village, poured forth a band of hardy adventurers; and the great army of the Alemanni, which, on their approach, was estimated at forty thousand men by the fears of the people, was afterwards magnified to the number of seventy thousand by the vain and credulous flattery of the Imperial court.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

In all probability the legend of Tell and the apple originated in Scandinavia, and was brought by the Alemanni into Switzerland; as into other lands.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07

The ground was already covered with snow; and Julian, after repairing an ancient castle which had been erected by Trajan, granted a truce of ten months to the submissive Barbarians. At the expiration of the truce, Julian undertook a second expedition beyond the Rhine, to humble the pride of Surmar and Hortaire, two of the kings of the Alemanni, who had been present at the battle of Strasburgh.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

The Alemanni and the Bavarians, who were more remote from Italy and hence from the Church, were influenced more by their own customs and allowed a pecuniary recompense to take the place of the harsher enactments. Adultery was not only a legal cause for divorce, but also a grave crime.

Eugene Arthur Hecker - A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference: to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With: Additions.

The flower of the western armies had followed Constantius into Britain, and the national troops were reenforced by a numerous body of Alemanni, who obeyed the orders of Crocus, one of their hereditary chieftains.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1