Aribonids

The Aribonids were a noble family of probably Bavarian origin who rose to preeminence in the March of Pannonia (later Austria) in the late ninth and early tenth centuries. They are named after the Margrave Aribo.

The family maintained influence in Bavaria, Austria, and other parts of Germany (the Saxon eastern marches and the Rhineland) until the early twelfth century, when they disappear. Their earliest identifiable member was Arbeo of Freising. The Aribonids had a long-sustained feud with the Wilhelmines in the late ninth century. [Reuter, 82.] As the dukes of Great Moravia tended to support the Wilhelmines, the Aribonids were usually at war with the Moravians.

The Aribonids controlled the Archbishopric of Salzburg for a long time. [Ibid, 196.] In fact, the family provided many high ecclesiastics; Aribo, Archbishop of Mainz, and Pilgrim, Archbishop of Cologne, were Aribonids, as their names would suggest.

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*Reuter, Timothy. "Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056". New York: Longman, 1991.

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