Sugambri, Sygambri, Sigambri, Sycambri
or
Sicambri. One of the most powerful peoples of Germany at an early
time, belonging to the Istaevones, and dwelling originally north of the Ubii on the Rhine,
whence they spread towards the north as far as the Lippe. They were conquered by Tiberius in
the reign of Augustus. Shortly afterwards they disappear from history, and are not mentioned
again till the time of Ptolemy, who places them much farther north, close to the Bructeri and
the Langobardi, somewhere between the Vecht and the Yssel. At a still later period we find
them forming an important part of the confederacy known under the name of Franci.