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The battle was a victory for the Franks, and led to the conquest of the Roman rump state of Soissons, a milestone for the Franks in their attempt to establish themselves as a major regional power. In the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire between 476 and 480, Syagrius was the only remaining representative of Roman rule in the area ...
Goethe wrote the poem in 1773 or early 1774. It was first published [citation needed] in March 1775 in his first Singspiel Erwin und Elmire which was first set to music in 1775 by the German composer Johann André (a revival in 1776 used music by Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and by Carl David Stegmann, and another 1785 had music by Ernst Wilhelm Wolf and Karl Christian Agthe).
The Kingdom of Soissons cut all ties with Italy and had no further recorded contact with the Eastern Roman Empire. Even after 476, Syagrius continued to maintain that he was merely governing a Roman province. The Domain of Soissons was in fact an independent region. [5] Childeric died about 481, and his son Clovis I became the Frankish king ...
480 BC – Battle of Veii (480 BC) – Consuls Marcus Fabius Vibulanus and Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus win a heavy battle against Veians and their Etruscan allies. Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus and former consul Quintus Fabius are slain. 477 BC – Battle of the Cremera – All the Fabii except Quintus Fabius Vibulanus are killed in battle with the ...
Battle of Soissons (486) Salian Franks of Tournai and Cambrai: Kingdom of Soissons: 488 AD ... Song–Vietnamese war (981) Đại Việt: Song dynasty: 982 AD 982 AD
This is a chronological list of the battles involving the Franks, Francia and West Francia until 987. For later conflicts, see List of battles involving the Kingdom of France . The list gives the name, the date, the present-day location of the battles, the Frankish allies and enemies, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:
Syagrius preserved his father's territory between the Somme and the Loire around Soissons after the collapse of central rule in the Western Empire, a domain Gregory of Tours called the "Kingdom" of Soissons. Syagrius governed this Gallo-Roman enclave from the death of his father in 464 until 486, when he was defeated in battle by Clovis I.
Aegidius (died 464 or 465) was the ruler of the short-lived Kingdom of Soissons from 461 to 464/465. Before his ascension he was an ardent supporter of the Western Roman emperor Majorian, who appointed him magister militum per Gallias ("Master of the Soldiers for Gaul") in 458.