The history of the ancient Germans Volume 2; including that of the Cimbri, Suevi, Alemanni, Franks, Saxons, Goths, Vandals, and other ancient northern ... of Germany, and most of the kingdoms of Eu

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1738 Excerpt: ...& a RhenO ad Eidoram, amnem, usque protendebatur. Citerior Frisia Rhenum inter It Flevum, ulterior Flevum inter & Eidoram erat. Ad citeriorem pertinebat Trajectum, vulgo Mastric, & Ultrajecturn, vulgo Utrecht. (4) Flevus was the Name of that Channel of the Rhine, which Drusus caused to be made Eastwards, and to be united witb the Yssel. It pafid thro' the Lacus Flevus into the North-Sea. This Fossa Drufl was mentioned, Vol. I. L. 3. 14. But the Sea has since overflowed that Country, as far as the Lacus Flevus, or the Zuyder Sea. Yet the Name of Fly is yet retained where the Flevus discharged itself into the Sea. Altinc. in Notit. Germ. Infer. (5) Cons. Pagius ad An. 689. n. 9. (6) The Ann.Metens. give the most circumstantial Account os'thisExpedition. Pipinus exercitum universalemFrancorum adunare prsecepit. Tractatisque de utilitate Imperii consiliis, occurrit Radbodi, Frisionum Ducis, obviare superbiæ, qui tantæ stultitiae involutus caligine suit, ut contra Pipinum, invictum Principem, aciem parare præsumeret. In qua victus atque fugatus maximam partem exercitus sui pexdidit. Seraque tandem pœnitentia ductus, Legatos ad Pipinum dirigens, pacem postulat, seque cum his, quos regebat, suae ditioni subdidit. Obsidibus quoque datis, Pipini tributarius efficitur., therein. therein. But Ratbod broke the Treaty, and, in the Year 607, we find another Engagement mention'd, between the Franks and hri/ians, near Durjiede (7). After this, a better Understanding subsisted between them, and Grimoald, Tipin'sSon, married, A. 711, Teutswda, Daughter to the Prince of the Frisians (8). As for the Alemanni and Swabians, Tiffin set out indeed with an Army for Suevia, in this and some succeeding Years, after the Death of Gods rid, their Duke, in...