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 in the latter half of the 5th century was Cologne.
The Ripuarian king Sigebert the Lame fought alongside Clovis I in the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alamanni and was badly injured in the fighting, earning him the moniker the Lame. In 507, he was murdered by his son Cloderic, who in turn was dethroned and killed by Clovis. The Ripuarian Franks then took Clovis as their king and merged politically into the Frankish Kingdom.
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