Marcomanni in a sentence

According to historians such as Herwig Wolfram : :The Marcomanni and the Quadi gave up their special names after crossing the Danube, in fact both the emigrants and the groups remaining in Pannonia became Suebi again.

After his expulsion the leadership of the Marcomanni was contested by their Suebic neighbours and allies, the Hermunduri and Quadi.

He also describes the Marcomanni as a tribe distinct from the Suebi, and also active within the same alliance.

However, if we look for the peoples in the region from the upper Main in the north, south to the Danube and east to the Czech Republic where the Quadi and Marcomanni were located, Ptolemy does not give any tribes.

Jordanes writes that in the early 4th century the Vandals had moved to the north of the Danube, but with the Marcomanni still to their west, and the Hermunduri still to their north.

Meanwhile, general Gaius Sentius Saturninus would depart east from Moguntiacum on the Rhine with two or three legions, pass through newly annexed Hermunduri territory, and attack the Marcomanni from the west.

North of the Adrabaecampi, are the Sudini and then the Marcomanni living in the Gambreta forest.

Setting out northwest from Carnuntum on the Danube with four legions, Tiberius passed through Quadi territory in order to invade the Marcomanni from the east.

Tacitus, in the late 1st century mentions (Germania I.42) the Marcomanni as being under kings appointed by Rome.

The campaign was a resounding success, but Tiberius could not subjugate the Marcomanni because he was soon summoned to the Rhine frontier to protect Rome's new conquests in Germania.

The later Emperor Tiberius commanded twelve legions to attack the Marcomanni.

The war lasted until Marcus Aurelius' death in 180. In the third century Jordanes claims that the Marcomanni paid tribute to the Goths, and that the princes of the Quadi were enslaved.

This was also the first mention of Bavarians and they are also often proposed to have had Marcomanni in their ancestry also.

To deal with the threat of Roman expansion into the Rhine Danube basin he led the Marcomanni to the area later known as Bohemia to be outside the range of the Roman influence.