Aventinus 72

Johannes Turmayr's 1520 History of Bavaria, Chapter 72 - translated and annotated by Ras Feqade, AD 2020.

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## 72. Of King Adalger in Bavaria; what the German knights and ladies got in their time for a journey.

After king Ingram, I find that his son king **Adalger** reigned with us 49 years, of whom old rhymes and chronicles are still available as a hero and great fighter; also Adelgersbach, Adelgersburg, for short Aldersbach, Aldersburg, still keep the name from him: they were for ages whole districts and places, mighty fiefdoms and counties of the great kingdom in Bavaria, as the old letters relate, but now villages, hamlets and monasteries. And the aforementioned name is vastly customary with the old Bavarians, as the old death and birth records indicate.

[Adalger ruled Boigeria from 1646-1597 BC, 49 years as stated here, though Anderson gives him only 39, dated by him 1364-1325 BC.]

At this time, as the hero Danhauser (of whom I said much earlier) was still the king and captain of the German knights called Kempher, the war women set out and elected two Queens, with the names **Marthpeis** and **Landpotin**. Landpotin stayed at home, Marthpeis overran the whole of Asia up to the kingdom of Lycea. There was a younger prince, with the name Bellerophontes, whom I have mentioned above, he was the son of king Glaucus of the state of Corinth, a straight handsome prince, he was exiled from the regime by a king named **Proetos**. This one had a wife, named Anteia, who courted the above mentioned Bellerophontes: but as he did not want to do her will, she petitioned her husband and said, how he courted her her, dishonored and humiliated an unfaithful affair on her. King Proetos, her lord, believing such, sent Bellerophontes from Greece into Asia to his in law Heuries, who was king in Lycia. At the same time, the said queen Marthpeis and her war women fell upon king Heuries in the country, causing great damage with murder and fire. The hero Bellerophontes threw himself into opposition against the women, flinging everyone off; nobody wanted to meet these women. The poets write that Bellerophontes had a horse, it flew in the air, so with the help of the goddess Pallas he defeated the women and killed their queen Marthpeis. He also acted much more honestly, when Heuries was innocent, he also gave him his daughter Achimene in marriage. When this sister, the above-mentioned Anteia, heard this, she did herself in.

[More can be said of the Cimmerians, Amazons, Getae etc. at this time courtesy of Magnus. Under king Tanausis (Thanhauser) they occupied lands east of the Don in Circassia, then considered within Asia, for around 15 years, but he was pressured to withdraw by the Amazons, leaving the territory to Sorinus, king of the Medes. After Tanausis' reign, being a republic, some Getae and Amazons elected Filinus and Solaphitus who led them to occupy the Kaska territory, Pontus as far as the Thermidon river, ca. 1644 BC. They ended up killing each other, and the remaining Amazons then chose their widows, Marpesia and her sister Lampedo (Landpotins) as their queens. Marpesia ruled the territories in Asia Minor in the wars mostly with Lukka; while Landpotins ruled the European territories.

Proetus ruled Argos from 1609-1592 BC before taking the nearby city of Tiryns. In 1605 BC he sent the exiled Corinthian prince Bellerophontes away from his court to Lycia (Lukka), where his queen Anteia's father Iobathes (aka Amphianax, Heuries) was now king, after the sodomite tyrant Tantalus. Iobates sent Bellerophon to defeat the Amazons, which he did, driving them back, also slaying their Queen Marpesia. Pegasus was the name of Bellerophon's ship and/or Marpesia's horse, but not really a flying one.]

And Homer, the earliest heathen writer, from whom all of the heathen knowledge wisdom and writing flowed out of one well, as the great emperor Justinian testified in his legal books, reports about Bellerophontes, how he fought with the German war women.