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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 ...
Syagrius (c. 430 – 486 [1] or 487 or 493–4 [2]) was a Roman general and the last ruler of a Western Roman rump state in northern Gaul, now called the Kingdom of Soissons. Gregory of Tours referred to him as King of the Romans. Syagrius's defeat by King of the Franks Clovis I is considered the end of Western Roman rule outside of
The Battle of Soissons was fought in 486 between Frankish forces under Clovis I and the Gallo-Roman domain of Soissons under Syagrius. 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.
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.
Kingdom of Soissons, a Roman rump state. A rump state is the remnant of a once much larger state that was reduced in the wake of secession, annexation, occupation, decolonization, a successful coup d'état or revolution on part of its former territory. [1]
Traditions make St. Sixtus and St. Sinicius the earliest apostles of Soissons as envoys of St. Peter. [1] In the 280's the Caesar Maximian, the subordinate of the Emperor Diocletian, and his Praetorian Prefect Riccius Varus [2] campaigned in northeast Gaul and subdued the Bagaudae, an event accompanied by much slaughter.
Augusta Suessionum (modern Soissons), founded ca. 20 BC on an area more adapted to urbanization than Villeneuve-Saint-Germain and Pommiers, became the capital of the civitas Suessionum during the Roman period. [11] Reaching 100–120ha at its height, it was one of the most important settlements of northwestern Gaul. [15]
Tony Robinson's Romans is a four-part television documentary series created by Tony Robinson about the Roman Empire. It debuted on Channel 4 on 20 September 2003, [1] and aired through 11 October 2003. This documentary programme is three hours in length, consists of four episodes and makes extensive use of research.