Germania Prima, Maxima Sequanorum and the Right Bank of the Rhine
As we teased earlier, we've finally gotten around to adding what's left of eastern Gaul, most prominently the kingdom of
Alemannia. In addition to their ancestral lands in Magna Germania, the Alemanni have occupied the former province of
Germania Prima and parts of
Maxima Caesariensis since the turmoil in Gaul following the assasination of Flavius Aetius. In 479, Alemannia is a unified kingdom - at least, insofar as a tribal kingdom is ever unified - under the rule of King
Gibuld, and form a significant power in the region, providing a rival to the neighbouring Burgundian kingdom and a threat to the weaker Frankish petty kingdoms to the north and west. Of course, avid students of history know that the kingdom would be ended at the Battle of Tolbiac less than 20 years later by Clovis - and ingame, it is only a matter of time before he comes knocking at your door.
The rest of Maxima Caesariensis lies under firm Burgundian control, with the civitates of Helviotioria and Equestria forming part of the original grant to the Burgundians when then were resettled here from their former kingdom in at Worms. Like most of the north of the kingdom, it is under the rule of co-King Godegisel, ruling from Geneva.
North of the Main, we have the poorly-attested tribes of the
Hessian Franks, likely the descendants of the classical Chatti and Chattuari. Wedged between the aggressive Saxon tribes, the Alemannic kingdom, and the more Romanized Ripuarian Franks proper, they would eventually come under the suzerainty of the greater Frankish kingdom and it would be from here where the Franks would expand south and east to the borders of medieval Franconia.
Here's a
de jure duchy map of the area in 479:
The main goal as an Alemannic, Frisian, or Saxon, lord, of course, is to form the High Kingdom of
Germania, but that has always been a rather boring, flavourless affair. We've sought to resolve that slightly by making the creation requirements more interesting and adding in some de jure shifts for the title, in particular adding a Kingdom of Franconia that splits off of the eastern parts of Austrasia/Ripuarian Franks so that Germania properly spans from the North Sea down to the Alps.
