Eifel in the Middle Ages

Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 817 to 855

Benedictine monk, chronicler and music theorist

refers to Franco-alamannic battles in the years 496 & 503 (Clovis) at what is now Zülpich, near Cologne

treaty

abbey

extinct Gallo-Romance dialect spoken around the Moselle River in Germany

The Ahrgau (also Argau) was a medieval Frankish gau that lay either side of the River Ahr in the north of the present-day German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, but also reached the gates of Bonn (the Kottenforst forest still belonged to the Ahrgau), especially after the dissolution of the Odangau.