Ripuarian Franks

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The Ripuarian Franks (also spelled Riparian) were a subtribe within the Germanic Franks. "Ripuarian" means "of the river" and is principally opposed to "salian," meaning "salty," as in the Salian Franks. The Ripuarians were indeed "of the river," living primarily in the Rhineland, while the Salians were salty only in the sense that they lived along the coast, in what is today Belgium and the Netherlands.

The capital of the Ripuarian Franks at the time of Clovis I of the Salians was Cologne. Two of their kings are recorded: Sigebert the Lame and his son Chloderic, both of whom were defeated by Clovis around 508, when he annexed their tribe and united the Frankish nation.


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