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The West Germanic tribe of the ''Sigambrer'' (Sicambri) appear around 55 BC , during the time of the Roman Empire , on the right bank of the Rhine between the rivers Ruhr and Sieg , in an area that is today part of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The river Sieg, as well as the city of Siegen , were said to be named for this tribe. In 16 BC they defeated a Roman army under the command of Marcus Lollius, which sparked a reaction from the Roman Empire and helped start the series of Germanic Wars lasting from 16 BC to AD 16. In 11 BC , they were forced by Nero Claudius Drusus to move to the left side of the Rhine , where they evidently formed a central component of the confederacy of Franks . Their new homeland was located in what is now the region of Gelderland in the Netherlands , on the lower Rhine river. Gregory Of Tours states that the Frankish leader Clovis , on the occasion of his baptism into the Catholic faith in 496 , was referred to as ''Sicamber'' by the officiating Bishop Of Rheims -- recalling again the link between the Sugambri and Clovis' ancestors, the Merovingian royal house of the Franks. EXTERNAL LINK |
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