[6] Gennoboudes was clearly already a ruler prior to these events, but the tenth panegyric claims that he was finally able to rule with full authority, thanks to his new position as a client of Maximian.
Praising the emperor, the author of the tenth panegyric says Gennoboudes "displayed you repeatedly, I hear, to his people, and ordered them to rest their gaze upon you for a long time, and to learn submissiveness, since he himself was subject to you".
Some scholars associate Gennoboudes and his people with regions far to the north of Trier, near the Rhine delta in the present day Netherlands, where Franks including the Chamavi were active within Roman territory.
[13] This region was at the time lost to Roman control, and was not recovered until after the tenth and eleventh panegyrics, in the years 294-305 AD, by Maximian's son-in-law Constantius Chlorus.
[15] For this reason it is suggested that the Franks in this period, possibly including those of Gennoboudes, had been coordinating with the Roman rebel Carausius, referred to in the panegyrics as a pirate.
[16] While some scholars believe that Gennoboudes and his people lived near the Rhine delta, and continued to do so, others have suggested that they were moved deeper into the Roman empire after their submission to Rome.
[17] Some scholars therefore believe that a treaty (foedus) followed the surrender providing for the settlement of these Franks within Roman territory in the countries of both the Arvii (near present day Le Mans), and the Treveri, whose city was Trier.
This vowel sound is not expected for names derived from Proto-Germanic, and so some scholars believe this spelling could indicate Celtic influence, if not scribal error.