Chattuarii

The Hettergouw at the lower Rhine in the Frankish Empire, named after the Hetware.

The Chattuarii or Attoarii were a Germanic tribe of the Franks. They lived originally east of the northern Rhine and west of the Chatti. Their land was south of the Bructeri. Some of them (laeti) settled in the pagus attuariorum (French; Atuyer, comprising Oscheret at that time) south of Langres in the 3rd century. In the 5th century many Chattuari crossed the Rhine and settled in the area between the northern Meuse and Rhine, right west of their origin.^{[citation needed]} From the 7th century on they may have formed a part of the Ripuarians.

Since carolingian times there was an “Hattuarian Gau” (dutch: Hettergouw, german: Hattuariergau) at the left bank of the Rhine in East Francia, documented first in the Treaty of Meerssen, 870.

The Chattuarii may also appear in the poem Beowulf as "Hetwaras" where they appear to form a league together with the Hugas (who may be the Chauci) and the Frisians to fight against a Geatish raiding force. The Geats are defeated and their king Hygelac is killed, Beowulf alone escaping. According to Widsith, the Hætwera were ruled by Hun.

See also

Ancient Germanic culture portal

• List of Germanic peoples
• Confederations of Germanic tribes

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