Domain of Soissons
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When the Western Roman Emperor Majorian was killed in 461, General Aegidius maintained his own rule in the remnants of Roman Gaul that came to be known as the Domain or Kingdom of Soissons. The polity was conquered by the Franks in 486.
Establishment
September 461: When Western Roman emperor Majorian was killed on the orders of Ricimer in 461, general Aegidius maintained his own rule in the remnants of Roman Gaul that came to be known as the Domain or Kingdom of Soissons.
Chronology
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Western Roman Emoperor Majorian was assassinated and overthrown by Ricimer.
The Visigoths expanded their kingdom northwards.
January 464: The border of the kingdom to the north had been brought to the Loire and when Theodoric attempted to expand his domains northward by sending an army under the command of his brother Frederick, he found the opposition of the magister militum Egidio, who in a battle, in 463, defeated the Goths and killed Theodoric's brother, Frederick.
February 464: The border of the kingdom to the north had been brought to the Loire and when Theodoric attempted to expand his domains northward by sending an army under the command of his brother Frederick, he found the opposition of the magister militum Egidio, who in a battle, in 463, defeated the Goths and killed Theodoric's brother, Frederick.
By 476, the Visigothic Kingdom had extended its rule to the Rhone and the Loire rivers.
January 477: By 476, he had extended his rule to the Rhone and the Loire rivers which comprised most of southern Gaul.
The Franks invaded the Domain of Soissons.
January 477: After Gaul had increasingly slipped away from Western Roman control since the death of the power-conscious general Aëtius in 454, the Franks used the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which had been shattered by civil wars (around 476), to fill the power vacuum that had arisen and take over their territory on their own enlarge, similar to the Visigoths in the south.
The last remnants of the Roman Empire in Gaul, the Kingdom of Soissons, was conquered by the Franks under King Clovis I.
January 487: Having secured the frontiers to the north and east, and Euric being dead in the meantime, Clovis was able to prepare the conquest of the kingdom of Syagrius. In 486, with the help of the other Salician kings, Ragnacaro and Carrarico, he was able to throw his army against Siagro who, defeated, in the battle of Soissons. Now the Frankish tribes of Clovis controlled all of northern Gaul.
Disestablishment
January 487: Having secured the frontiers to the north and east, and Euric being dead in the meantime, Clovis was able to prepare the conquest of the kingdom of Syagrius. In 486, with the help of the other Salician kings, Ragnacaro and Carrarico, he was able to throw his army against Siagro who, defeated, in the battle of Soissons. Now the Frankish tribes of Clovis controlled all of northern Gaul.
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