Bucinobantes

The Bucinobanten (Latin Bucinobantes ) were a tribe in the Main Alamannic estuary near Mainz.

The Roman writer Ammianus Marcellinus reports that Caesar Julian in Mainz the Rhine passed in the year 359 and graduated with a Gaukönig the Bucinobanten, Makrian, and other Alamannic kings, peace treaties.

Due to continued unrest against the Roman Empire in the year 370 struck a failed attempt of the Roman Emperor Valentinian I, King Makrian increase caught with the help of the Burgundians. He was then deposed by the emperor. However, the Fraomar employed in his place could not prevail at the Bucinobanten so that Makrian finally a treaty of alliance had to be granted in the year 371.

For the front part of the name of Bucinobanten there are various interpretation and derivation suggestions: Book, hedges or Gebück -. The rear part of the name derives from the Germanic name space bant ( " country / region"). A transfer of the name could be " The Buchenbant in Domestic " mean. The name has been preserved in the Hessian countryside Buchengau.

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• Ammianus Marcellinus 29.4
• Notitia Dignitatum