The Chatti (also Catti) were an olden Teutonish kindred settled in middle and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper reaches the bourne 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 bigger. 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. "Chatti" in time became "Hesse" through a set of loudshifts.