Battle of Vézeronce

Battle of Vézeronce

The Battle of Vézeronce took place on June 25, 524 close to Vézeronce-Curtin (then "Veseruntia") in Isère. It was part of the Burgundian War initiated by the four successors of the Frankish king Clovis I: Childebert I, Chlodomir, Clotaire I, and Theuderic I.

The Burgundian king Sigismund was defeated, but Chlodomir, the leader of the Frankish army, was killed in battle, traditionally by Gundomar III, brother of Sigismund. In vengeance, Sigismund and his two sons were slain by the Franks after the battle. Clotaire and Childebert then completed their conquest at Vézeronce by defeating Gundomar and his allied Ostrogoths.

Aside from the definitive defeat of the Burgundians, which reversed their fortunes permanently and assured the annexation of their kingdom to the Merovingians', the chief legacy of the battle "within" Francia was the division of Chlodomir's kingdom among his brothers and the dispossession (and murder) of his young heirs.

A helmet was found in the peat marsh of Saint-Didier, to the north of the battle site in 1871 and is conserved in the Musée Dauphinois, Grenoble. The helmet is of Byzantine craftsmanship and was probably that of a Frankish chieftain.

External links

* [http://www.musee-dauphinois.fr/md/index/num/99/lan/1 Collections Archéologie] at the Musée dauphinois website.


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