Chattuarii

The approximate positions of some Germanic peoples reported by Graeco-Roman authors in the 1st century.
The Hettergouw at the lower Rhine in the Frankish Empire, named after the Hetware.

The Chattuarii, also spelled Attoarii, were a Germanic tribe of the Franks.[1] They lived originally north of the Rhine in the area of the modern border between Germany and the Netherlands, but then moved southwards in the 4th century, as a Frankish tribe living on both sides of the Rhine.

  1. ^ Eschbach, Peter (1902), "Der Stamm und Gau der Chattuarier, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der fränkischen Stämme und Gaue am Niederrhein", Beiträge zur Geschichte des Niederrheins, 17: 1–28