Ragnachar

Ragnachar was a Frankish petty king ( regulus ) end of the 5th century of the Merovingian dynasty and a kinsman of Clovis

Life

The historical work of Gregory of Tours ( Decem Libri Historiarum, 2nd Book), upon which all subsequent reports, is the main source to Ragnachar.

Ragnachar prevailed in Cambrai and built his sphere in the context of the demise of the late Roman administration in Gaul. He was one of the numerous small Frankish kings in this room, like Clovis I, perhaps enjoying a certain primacy of honor, as his father Childeric I had held the Roman military command in the Belgica Secunda.

486 supported Ragnachar Clovis I in the military operation against the Gallo - Roman Syagrius. Syagrius was the son of the Roman magister militum Aegidius and ruled in Soissons, one of the last Roman enclaves in the West realm gone down. Ragnachar supported Clovis probably because the sphere of Syagrius ' bordered on the Ragnachars. Together they defeated Syagrius ' army; this could flee to the Visigoths, but was soon shipped out to Clovis, who had him executed.

With the downfall of the Syagriusreichs the balance of power between the small Franconian kings had shifted in favor of Clovis. This eventually went in front against Ragnachar, but the chronology of events uncertain. Probably Clovis began its operations until the end of his reign, when he had already defeated the Alamanni and Visigoths, but certainly not before the year 490

Clovis turned off the petty kings Chara Rich and Sigebert of Cologne, but is not entirely clear, the order in which the events took place. After Gregory's report Ragnachar led a dissolute life and therefore was despised by the Franks in its environment. Clovis was able to bribe several of Ragnachars followers, so they called Clovis for help. Ragnachar was then, after he had lost the battle against Clovis troops taken prisoner by his own people and Clovis passed, the Ragnachar as well as his brothers and Richar Rignomer, who was at Le Mans left, kill.

This Clovis had turned off all possible competitors, and paved the way for the unification of the Franks in a realm.

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