Godomar II

Godomar II was a son of the Burgundian king Gundobad and himself, as the successor to his brother Sigismund, King of the Burgundians from 524 to 534.

When Sigismund had his son Sigeric strangled in the year 523 because he suspected him of conspiring against him, and this murder triggered a crisis between the Ostrogoths and the Burgundians, the Franks under the part- king of Orleans Chlodomer took advantage of the political situation, to attack the now stand-alone Burgundian Empire (see Burgundian War ). Sigismund was defeated by the Franks in a battle; he, his wife and two sons were betrayed into captivity by the Franks and were executed by being thrown headlong into a well.

Godomar is suspected of having sided with the Franks in this fight. On the other hand, he managed to turn the tide the following year. On June 25, 524 he achieved a victory over the Franks in the battle of Vézeronce , in which Chlodomer himself fell. The Franks then withdrew and temporarily gave up the battle for Burgundy.

Three years after Sigismund's death, Godomar had his body recovered and then buried in the Johannes Chapel in St. Maurice in Valais , the monastery that he renewed himself and into which he had subsequently retired for some time.

When the Franks started another attempt at conquest in 532, Godomar II was unable to repel them. He was defeated by them at the Battle of Autun , which meant the end of his rule and the end of the kingdom that the Merovingians finally incorporated into their empire and finally divided among themselves in 534. His further fate is unknown.

literature

Felix Dahn : Godomar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 321 f.
Reinhold Kaiser : The Burgundy (= Kohlhammer Urban pocket books. Vol. 586). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-016205-5

Individual evidence

↑ Uta Heil: Avitus von Vienne and the homeic church of the Burgundians (= Patristic texts and studies. Vol. 66). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025154-8 , p. 25, (At the same time: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Universität, habilitation paper, 2009).

predecessor	Office	successor
Sigismund	King of the Burgundies 523-534	Conquered by the Franks 532-534

personal data
SURNAME	Godomar II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of the Burgundy
DATE OF BIRTH	before 516
DATE OF DEATH	after 534

[1] Uta Heil: Avitus von Vienne and the homeic church of the Burgundians (= Patristic texts and studies. Vol. 66). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025154-8 , p. 25, (At the same time: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Universität, habilitation paper, 2009).