Genobaud
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Genobaud was a leader (dux) of the Franks. He invaded the Roman Empire in the year 388.
This invasion is documented by Gregory of Tours, who cited the now lost work of Sulpicious Alexander. According to this account Genobaud invaded the Roman provinces Germania and Belgia together with Marcomer and Sunno. They broke through the limes, killed many peoples, destroyed the most fruitfull lands and made the city Köln panic. After this raid the main body of the Franks moved back over the Rhine with their booty. Some of the Franks remained in the Belgian woods. When the Roman generals Nanninus and Quintinus heard the news in Trier, they attacked those remaining Frankish forces and killed many of them. After this engagement Quintinus crossed the Rhine to punish the Franks in their own country, however his army was surrounded and beaten. Some Roman soldiers drowned in the marshes, others were killed by Franks, few made it back to their Empire.
[edit] See also
Marcomer, Sunno or Arbogastes
[edit] sources
Gregory of Tours, Historiën, Book II - paragraph 9.
