Genobaud

Gennobaudes († probably 388 ) was a Frankish military leader in the late 4th century.

Gennobaudes resulted in 388 together with the military leaders Marcomer and Sunno an attack on the Roman province of Germania by. The Franks broke through the Roman limes and devastated the area around Cologne, before they departed with rich booty. While deposed a part of the Franks, others stayed back to Roman territory. However, they were surprised by the counter-attack of the Roman officers Nanninus and Quintinus. Gennobaudes probably fell in the fighting at the coal forest ( silva carbonaria ).

The Frankish invasion and the later following Roman counter-offensive ( which, however, failed ) were described in detail by the late antique historian Sulpicius Alexander in his Historia. The apparently oriented to the classical models work is gone, however, lost to us, is only is a longer excerpt in the work of Gregory of Tours, but it contains important information.

A relationship with a good 100 years before living Frankish military leader Gennobaudes is not provable, but at least possible.