Franco-Visigothic Wars
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Were a series of wars between the Franks and the Visigoths during the reign of Frankish King Clovis I.
Chronology
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Was the first war of Frankish King Clovis against the Kingdom of the Visigoths.
January 493: Alaric seemingly refused to give Clovis battle, thus leaving Clovis to besiege Poitiers, Saintes, and Bordeaux. Clovis might have captured Tours.
January 492: By 491, Clovis had stabilized the former Roman territory and was eager to move against Alaric. Hence soon, he laid a siege to Nantes; the most northern city under Visigothic rule. Nantes resisted sixty days.
January 497: In 496, despite winning the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alemanni, the Franks took heavy casualties (and might have suffered from internal turmoil). Seeing the opportunity, Alaric quickly retook Bordeaux, Saintes, Poitiers, and Tours.
January 497: In 496, Nantes was taken by the Armonici.
Was the first war of Frankish king Clovis against the Kingdom of the Visigoths.
November 507: Frankish king Clovis was able to recapture Bordeaux from the Visigoths before the end of 507.
January 508: Battle of Vouillé: Frankish conquest of Gallia Aquitania.
2.1.Battle of Vouillé
Was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at Vouillé, near Poitiers (Gaul), in the spring of 507 between the Franks, commanded by Clovis, and the Visigoths, commanded by Alaric II.
January 508: The new king of the Visigoths is tentatively accepted by his nobles, but is unable to hold Narbonne against the Burgundians.
January 508: In 507, Clovis, having gathered all the Salii Franks, with a contingent supplied by the Ripuarian Franks, and allied with the Burgundians, put together a considerable army which in the spring crossed the Loire and marched on Poitiers. Eventually, instead of retreating he decided to fight and was personally defeated and killed by the Frankish king Clovis at the battle of Vouillé. This marked the end of Visigothic rule in Gaul. The Visigoths, of their French kingdom, managed to defend only the Septimania, that is the region between the mouth of the Rhone and the Pyrenees.
