Franco-Visigothic Wars

Franco-Visigothic Wars
Part of The battles of Clovis I

Army movement during the Second Franco-Visigothic War
Date492–508
Location
Result

Frankish victory

  • Regnum Francorum dominates Gaul
  • Regnum Burgundionum is weakened
  • Regnum Gothorum falls under the influence of Regnum Italiae
Territorial
changes
Gallia Aquitania is annexed by the Franks[1]
Belligerents
Kingdom of the Franks Kingdom of the Visigoths
Armorica
Kingdom of the Burgundians (post-507)
Empire of the Romans
Kingdom of the Ostrogoths
Kingdom of the Burgundians (pre-507)
Alemanni
Commanders and leaders
Clovis I
Theuderic I
Godegisel 
Gundobad (post-507)
Aurelianus
Chilo
Alaric II 
Suatrius (POW)
Gundobad (pre-507)
Aridius
Gesalec
Theudis
Theoderic the Great

The Franco-Visigothic Wars were a series of wars between the Franks and the Visigoths, but it also involved the Burgundians, the Ostrogoths and the Romans. The most noteworthy war of the conflict would be the Second Franco-Visigothic War that included the famous Battle of Vouillé and resulted in Frankish annexation of most of Southern France.

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation, ed. Michael Frassetto, (ABC-CLIO, 2003), 362.