Battle of Soissons (486)

The Battle of Soissons, at Soissons in Picardy in northern France, in the year 486 (or 487) was a crucial step on the path of the Kingdom of the Franks under Clovis I as a major power.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire 476 held in Northern Gaul in the area between the Loire and the Somme still a Gallo-Roman enclave under the reign of Syagrius, son of Aegidius army master. The central location within Gaul with a still largely intact infrastructure of roads and road management ensured that residual range a certain stability in the period of mass migrations, but at the same time challenged the expansionism of the eastern Frankish neighbors.

What is the extent of this "empire" if you want to call it that because, had it's completely unclear, as sources report virtually nothing about it. Clovis to move the Franks to a decisive attack against Syagrius managed. Well at Soissons, the troops of Syagrius were defeated, even Syagrius fled to the Visigoths to Alaric II in the hope that this would grant him asylum. Instead, Alaric Syagrius delivered but ( to an ill-defined point in time) to Clovis from which had him executed immediately. Clovis benefited greatly from the defeat of Syagrius and could probably extend its dominion quite significant, though details are not known.

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  • Gregory of Tours, Historiae, 2, 27
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