Category:Frankish Personas

From Wikipedia: "The Franks (Latin: Franci or gens Francorum) were a West Germanic tribal confederation first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a kingdom on Roman-held soil that was acknowledged by the Romans after 357. In the climate of the collapse of imperial authority in the West, the Frankish tribes were united under the Merovingians and conquered all of Gaul except Septimania in the 6th century.

The ethnonym Frank has sometimes been traced to the Germanic word for "javelin" (cf. Old English franca, Old Norse frakka), as opposed to the Latin francisca "throwing axe", itself named after the tribe. A weapon-based tribal name would be comparable to that of the Saxons. Others tie the name to a word for "bold, fierce" (cf. Old Norwegian frakkr, Old English frǣc, Middle Dutch vrac). "Frank" was also a region in Pomerania (12th century) active with Teutonic Knights."