Erpes King of The Thüringians

• Preferred Name: Erpes King of The Thüringians
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Duke of the Salian (East) Franks 358, reigned twenty-one years, Duc des Francs, roi des Francs Saliens, Duke of the East Franks.
  
• FSID: GX3Y-2HK
  
• Birth: 304 in Thuringia, Germany at LATI: N0.9167 LONG: E1
  
• Death: 370 in Erfurt, Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany at LATI: N0.9823 LONG: E1.0154 with note: Info from reliable source
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 2nd King of ThuringiaBET 360 AND 370
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
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  FATHER OF ERPES:
  Hoger (Hagar) was born in Portus (present-day Pforzheim in Baden) around 300 AD. His father was Thuras (Thor, born c. 270 AD), and his grandfather was Herman (Irmin, born c. 240 AD). Herman was the king of the Hermunduri and lived in the Gommern area, near Magdeburg. After burying his father (Sceaf son of Weden, born c. 210 AD), who had died in battle against marauding Huns, Herman led his people to Baden around 260 AD, driving the Vangiones, Nemetae and Tribuci across the Rhine. He drove the Romans out of Portus (Pforzheim) and made it his residence. After Herman's death, his sons Jutho and Thuras divided his territories; Jutho ruled in the south, Thuras in the north. Thuras was succeeded by his son Hoger. Around 325 AD, the Alamanni attacked the Hermunduri in Baden and took over their territory. Most of the Hermanduri renamed themselves the Juthungi, and joined the Alamanni confederation. But the Hermanduri in the north did not wish to join. Hoger renamed them the Thuringi and led them back to central Germany, where they settled around Scithingi (Burgscheidungen).
  
  Hoger conquered the local Anglii (whose northern branch later joined the Saxons and Jutes in Britain) and Warnii tribes and started the Thuringian confederation, of which he was the first king.
  Hoger married an unknown Thuringi woman, who gave him a son named Erpas (c. 330 AD).
  
  Hoger died around 360 AD, and was succeeded by his son Erpas as King of Thuringia.
  
  The early kings of Thuringia were called the Scithings, from their ancestor Sceaf, son of Weden Frithuwald's son and twin brother to Sciold.
  
  Sceaf was a prince of the Anglii from Haithabu (Flensburg), who came to Gommern around 230 and married the daughter of the king of the Hermanduri, starting a new dynasty ancestral to Hoger.
  
  Among the descendants of Hoger are Erpas, Meerwig I, Weldalf, Meerwig II, Basin II, Bertacar, Fisud, Gundebald, Chamard, Radulf, and Heden. Clovis was a descendant of Hoger through his mother Basina, daughter of Basin I, who was the son of Weldalf and brother to Meerwig II.
  
  Kg. d. Thüringer, anglo-warnischer Adeliger, erbaut 319 die Mühlburg.
  
  === Kg. d. Thüringer um 325, erhaut seinen H ===
  Kg. d. Thüringer um 325, erhaut seinen Hauptsitz in der Nähe einer Furt über die Gera (Erfurt)

1. Merwig of the Thuringia I, b. 329 in Ebersburg, Fulda, Hessen, Deutschland     d. 380 in Turingi Tribal Islands(Elbe and Saale Rivers, Thuringia, Germany)