Battle of Tolbiac

Battle of Tolbiac

"The Battle of Tolbiac" by Ary Scheffer. Galerie des Batailles
Date496 AD
Location50°40′31″N 6°36′4″E / 50.67528°N 6.60111°E / 50.67528; 6.60111
Result

Frankish victory

  • End of Alamannic autonomy
Belligerents
Franks Alemanni
Commanders and leaders
Sigobert the Lame
Clovis I
Aurelianus[1]
Gibuld 
Strength
6,000 Franks[2] Unknown
Casualties and losses
Heavy Heavy
Battle of Tolbiac is located in Germany
Battle of Tolbiac
Location within Germany
Battle of Tolbiac, fresco at the Panthéon, Paris by Joseph Blanc, c. 1881.

The Battle of Tolbiac was fought between the Franks, who were fighting under Clovis I, and the Alamanni, whose leader is not known. The date of the battle has traditionally been given as 496, though other accounts suggest it may either have been fought earlier, in the 480s or early 490s, or later, in 506. The site of "Tolbiac", or "Tolbiacum", is usually given as Zülpich, North Rhine-Westphalia, about 60 km east of what is now the German-Belgian frontier. The Franks were successful at Tolbiac and established their dominance over the Alamanni.

  1. ^ Bachrach, Bernard S. (1972). Merovingian Military Organization, 481-751. U of Minnesota Press. p. 8. ISBN 9780816657001.
  2. ^ Bachrach, Bernard S. (1972). Merovingian Military Organization, 481-751. U of Minnesota Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780816657001.