Battle of Autun
The battle of Autun in 532 sealed the end of its independence with the victory of the Franks over the empire of the Burgundians .
Already in the first Burgundian War the sons of the Merovingian king Clovis I tried in vain to subdue the Burgundians, but they found strong support in the Ostrogothic empire of King Theodoric and were able to drive the Franks out. After his death in 526 a period of weakening of the Ostrogoth Empire followed, so that the Burgundians were left without allies. The Franconian kings Childebert I and Chlothar I used this for a new incursion. At Autun they met the Burgundian army under their King Godomar II , who was devastated. Burgundy became part of the Franconian Empire in 534, retained its own national law and, as a part of it, alongside Neustria and Austrasia, a certain independence, but had to pay the Franks army succession and interest; the Burgundian kingship was replaced by Merovingian kings.
literature
- The great Ploetz: The data encyclopedia of world history , 32nd edition, Freiburg 1999. P. 374.