Lentienses

The Lentienser (Latin: lentienses, current name: Linz Linz Gauer or dormer Wohner ) were a tribe Alamannic north of Lacus Brigantiae, today's Lake, approximately in the area between the Danube in the north, Iller to the east and Lake Constance in the south. The tribe is mentioned under his special name only by the Roman writer Ammianus Marcellinus ( 330-395 ).

Tradition

First they appear in 355, as the request of Emperor Constantius II of the Master equitum Arbetio she tried to punish for their repeated incursions into Roman territory. He fell into an ambush, but the home Arbetio to cut off further attacks and to drive the Lentienser to flight.

The second and last time they are called in the year 378. An on home leave Lentienser from the imperial bodyguard reported home that Emperor Gratian wanted to pull his troops east to help his uncle Valens against the Goths. Then the Lentienser gathered an army and moved in February over the frozen Upper Rhine on Roman territory. First, the Lentienser were beaten back, but soon afterwards they fell by the growth of other strains Alamannic allegedly 40,000 or even 70,000 men strong, and again in the Roman territory a. As they advanced into the Rhine, but were defeated at the Battle of Argentovaria, near the present - Oedenburg Biesheim at Neuf- Brisach, by Emperor Gratian. Their king Priarius was killed there. The emperor pursued the fleeing Lentienser it up in their own country, which they were forced to promise the Romans the supply of auxiliary troops. It should be the last campaign, the a Roman emperor undertook in the east of the Rhine Limes.

Since these events, their trace is lost in history; only her name, which is a Latin derivation from the Celtic place names Lentia is to get in " Linzgau ". The Lentienser were referred to in the historical sources as a particularly belligerent funny tribe. Whether the Lentienser referred to themselves as such, is not known.

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  • Ammianus Marcellinus 15.4 and 31,10,1-17
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