Council of Cannstatt

As a so-called criminal court to Cannstatt the elimination of the Alemanni Dukat by the Merovingian house Meier Carloman in 746 is sometimes referred to.

Karl Mann called 746 the Alemannic dukes and nobles to a meeting to Cannstatt one. According to the records of the Metz Annals of the Annales Petaviani and a report of Childebrand Carloman had many thousands of rebellious princes treason arrested and executed. So supposedly almost the entire leadership of the Alemanni was wiped out and ended the autonomy of the Alemanni Duchy. The Franks continued henceforth count, including descendants of the old ducal house and Alemanni nobleman, but also nobles from the Frankish " imperial aristocracy " to manage a Alamanniens.

The research in the elderly also often incurred assumption that it had been a veritable bloodbath is rated differentiated in recent research due to a more critical examination of the sources. Maybe was the executions, the exact number is debatable, requires a trial.