Battle of Vézeronce
The Battle of Vézeronce took place on June 25, 524 at what is now Vézeronce-Curtin in what is now the Département Isère ( France ).
It was the climax of the second campaign as part of the Burgundian War , which the Frankish kings Chlodomer , Childebert I and Chlothar I had started against the Burgundian king Sigismund , who had been captured by the Franks after a defeat during the first campaign the year before.
In 524, Sigismund's brother Godomar II began to recapture the country with the support of the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great . He destroyed the garrison that the Franks had left behind in Burgundy, whereupon Chlodomer had Sigismund and his family killed (May 1, 524) and launched a counter strike against Godomar.
In the battle of Vézeronce the Frankish troops were defeated by the allied Burgundians and Ostrogoths. Chlodomer was killed in the process, and the Franks then withdrew from Burgundy for the time being.
After Theodoric's death in 526, the Burgundians finally lost at Autun in another dispute against the Franks and had to give up their political independence.
A helmet found on the battlefield is now in the Musée dauphinois in Grenoble .
literature
- Gregory of Tours : Historia Francorum, Liber III, cap. VI, cap. XI
- Eugen Ewig : The Merovingians and the Franconian Empire. 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-17-012557-5 , especially p. 33/34.
- Elisabeth Roux: Vézeronce et Curtin au fil du temps. Communauté de Communes du Pays des Couleurs, Morestel 2007, ISBN 2-9508934-5-7 .
Remarks
- ↑ Musée Dauphinois, Casque dit “de Vézeronce” ( Memento of the original of November 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
