Chatti

The Chatti (also Catti) were an olden teutonish kindred settled in middle and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper reaches the the river Weser and in the dales and bergs of the Eder, Fulda and Werra river landships, a riding roughly akin to Hesse-Cassel, though most likely somewhat more greater. By Tacitus (Yores iv. under 70), among them were the Batavish, until an inner fight drove them out, to take up new lands at the mouth of the Rhine.

The Chatti winningly stood against inwroughtind into the Roman Empire, linking themselves to the Cheruscish war leader Arminius' joining of kindreds that smote Varus' legions the year 9 in Hurly-burly of Teutoburg Wold. Germanicus later, in 15, raided their lands in backfare, but Rome in time answered to Chatti's war-waging standing back of their selfhood by building the limes border strongholds along the southern border of their lands in middle Hesse throughout the early years of the first hundredyear. The leftovers of a very big stronghold have been found on a hill near the thorpe of Metze (Latin: Mattium) in the heart lands of the Chatti south of Kassel.

By Tacitus in his book Germania (deal 30), they were well taught warriors nameknown for their footmen, who (otherwise for teutonish kindreds) wielded trenching tools and bore food and the like when at war. Their neighbours to the north were the Usipi and the Tencteri.

The Chatti in time became a branch of the much bigger neighbouring Franks and were inwrought in the kingdom of Clovis I, most likely with the Ripuarish Franks, at the beginning of the sixth hundredyear. They are said of in the Old English tale Beowulf as Hetwaras.