Aventinus 69

Johannes Turmayr's 1520 History of Bavaria, Chapter 69 - translated and annotated by Ras Feqade, AD 2020.

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## 69. Of King Ingram in Bavaria.

After the sons of the German Hercules, I find and have discovered that King **Ingram**, King Baier's son, reigned 52 years with us. Where the three rivers, the Regen, the Nab and Danube flow, he expanded the city of Hermansheim, named after him Ingramsheim, that later was put in another land and is now called Regensburg; the Romans called it Augusta Tiberii.

[Ingram succeeded Boiger in Germany, now known as Boigeria, in 1698 BC, ruling until 1646 BC, 52 years as stated here and in Anderson. The Latin text gives Ingram's full name as Ingeramus Herminius. The accounts of Saxo and Magnus seem to call him Henry or Henricus and his realm Saxony, but he must be the same on chronological grounds. Saxony was likely an alternate name for Boigeria, as Boiger had surely triumphed over his elder brothers with the help of the Saxon regions, increasing their prestige. In the Scandinavian account, Henry was slain (in 1646 BC) at the court of King Sumbel of Finland, over the hand of Sumbel's daughter Signe, by his rival, King Gram of Danica. Ingram or Henry was then succeeded in Boigeria by Adalger.]

The old Bavarians used this name Ingram vastly and put it on their children, as the old salbooks, calendars, death records and other similar ancient writings attest. Our forefathers made and sang quite a few old masterpieces from him according to their needs, so they are still available in the old library. As he was a great warrior, he even sent his people to Asia on land and water.

And I find that at this time the Germans and their relatives overran Asia with king **Thanhauser**, called Thanausis in Greek, whom the Goths and Germans worshiped for a god in Transylvania. Likewise the above-mentioned warrior women's queen, Lady **Schmirein**, called herself a daughter of the god of war and the said god's bishop, she overran the land beyond the sea, forced their replicas and made money, defeated the mighty king in Egypt, Sesosis, built the city of Ephesus (as shown above), named after her Schmirenburg. These women had wars and overran each other (as one may gather from Homer, the earliest poet, and Eusebius and Jerome too, also our old German historians report, before brother Herman) fully a hundred years before the city of Troy was destroyed, these Mazens had constantly fought all countries in Asia, that none dared encounter their presence. So what a horror (out of the anger of God) these women came to the country and people, there was the common cry that it was evil, poisonous women, their breath would also be poisoned, if they just blow at you, you would have to die, and your body, that one already threw into the sea, did not go under. When they rejected a country or a city, and coveted the treasure, they always offered these words: If its up to you, you will get a little respect from us; but if it's up to us, it will be a great shame for you. And when the earliest poet, Homer, reported in the sixth book of the city of Troy's destruction, King Bellerophontes was the only one who dared fight with them, 200 years before the city of Troy was destroyed, as I will report afterwards in its time.

[Thanhauser or Tanausis is also described at this point by Magnus as succeeding Filmer among the Getae kings, providing an important synchronisation. Both accounts seem to agree that he united the Getae with the Cimmerians and Amazons; this seems to have occurred around 1660 BC after Theuer. Jordanes and Magnus mention his leading them to defeat Vesosis in Colchis, however this Colchian king was often confused with the much earlier Sesosis or Sesostris, a name for Pharaoh Senusret III (ruled Egypt 1880-1851 BC), who it seems did campaign as far as Colchis, and even left an Egyptian colony there. Vesosis, some 200 years after Senusret's expedition, must have been ruler of this Egyptian colony. Schmirein is also mentioned as Smyrna, the city of that name presumably built by her, but this refers to a part of Ephesus, not that far away, also called Smyrna.

Bellerophon of Lycia seems to have flourished around 400 years before Troy fell, but this is reported as only 200 here because of the 'Mycenean gap' in the *Manethonian Supplement*.]