1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
SYAGRIUS (d. 487), the last of the independent Roman administrators of Gaul, was the son of Aegidius, who had seized Gaul while Ricimer was master of Italy. P'rom 464 to 486 he governed that part of Gaul which lies between the Maas, the Scheldt and the Seine, and was termed " king of the Romans " by the German invaders, Franks, Burgundians and Visigoths, who already occupied the rest of Gaul. Defeated in 486 by Clovis, king of the Salian Franks, at the battle of Soissons, Syagrius fled, leaving his land at the merc…
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