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GERMAN Bavaria.] T.
§. 8. The ancient Bol^, who were a branch of the Ce/'t^e, and came
out oi Ccltia or Gallin about 589 years before the birth oi ChrilJ, crolhng
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the Rhine, firfl feated themfelves in Bohemia. But about the time of tine
Emperor Augußus being driven out of the greateft part of the country by
the Marcojnanni they removed into Ncricuin, and their fettlement from
thence came to be called Bojer or Bayerland, in Latin Bojaria, or Bajcaria,
of which in procefs of time was made Bavaria. In the fixth century
on the divihon of the great Empire of the Franks, among the four fons
of Clovis, Bavaria fell under the dominion of the Außraßan Kings, and
was governed by Dukes ; the firft of whom who occurs in ancient writers
with any degree of certainty is Garibald I. who lived under Clotharius
King oi Au/iria, and was without interruption fucceeded by T^afzilo I. Garibald
II. T'heodo I. and Tbeodo 11. The latter of thefe divided the large
province of i^ö-urfr/'ö into four parts, retaining to himfelf Ratishov. the capital,
together with the country eaftward of the fame, and likewife Noricum.
His eldeft fon Theodebcrt obtained Rheetia., the capital of which was
anciently Bozen, in Latin Bauzanwn. On the fecond fon Grimoald he conferred
Souih-Bavaria, or the Siidergau, together with the town of Freyßng
: And on his third Ibn Tbeodebald, North Bavaria, or the Nordgau,
which included the modern upper palatinate, and likewife the city of Nürnberg.
Tbeodo the father and his youngeft {or\ Tbeodebald dying, the
whole province of Bavaria fell to the two furviving brothers ; Theodebert
obtaining North and Middle Bavaria, together with Noricum, and G7-imoald\
fhare comprehending in it South Bavaria and Rhatia. Theodebert
was fucceeded by his fon Hi/^^iT/, who had for his fucceflbr Ottilo,
who was followed by Tafzilo II. the laft Duke 0^ Bavaria ; Charles the Great
King ot the Franks in the year 788, confining this Prince to a convent for
certain afls of difobedience, and reafluming to \\\vc\{t\i Bavaria, appointed
it to be governed by Counts. On the divifion of the monarchy of the
Franks among his grandlons by Lewis I. Bavaria, together with all Germany,
fell to Lewis the German, who refided at Ratisbomie : And on another
divifion made among his fons in the year 876, Karlmann became
King oi Bavaria, in which fovereignty he was firft fucceeded by his brother
Lewis the younger, and afterwards by his youngeft brother Charles the
Fat. But the latter being depofed by the States of the German Empire
in the year 8S7 ; and Armdph natural fon to his brother Karlmann elected
King of Germany, Bavaria alfo efcheated to him, and after him fell to his
fon Lewis the Child. Both at that time and alfo after his death Anmlpb
was Marggrave ot Bavaria, and in the year 920 was alfo created Duke
of the fame by King Henr'i I. But though his fons were difpofielTed of
this dukedom, yet was his fecond fon of the fame name created Pfalzgrave
of Bavaria, and he became the founder of the family of the Lords of Schir^
or Schcurn, who afterwards bore the title of Witteübacb.
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