The Battle of Soissons in the year 486 was a milestone on the way of the Franks under Clovis I to establish themselves as a major power. It was fought between the Franks under Clovis I and the remains of the Western Roman Empire, the inaccurately named Kingdom of Soissons, under Syagrius. For the processor, see Intel 80486. ... The Franks were one of several west Germanic tribes who entered the late Roman Empire from Frisia as foederati and established a lasting realm in an area that covers most of modern-day France and the region of Franconia in Germany, forming the historic kernel of both these two modern... Non-contemporary coin with obverse legend Clovis Roy de France Clovis I (or Chlodowech or Chlodwig, modern French Louis, modern German Ludwig) (c. ... The Western Roman Empire is the name given to the western half of the Roman Empire after its division by Diocletian. ... In the Late Classical period, two states in the area of modern-day northwest France were termed the Kingdom of Soissons: Roman Soissons (c. ... Syagrius (died 487) was the son of Aegidius, the last Roman magister militum per Gallias, who had preserved a rump state around Soissons after the collapse of central rule in the western empire. ...

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the year 476, only Syagrius as last representant of former roman rule was left in the area between the Loire and the Somme. Events August - The usurper Basiliscus is deposed and Zeno is restored as Eastern Roman Emperor. ... Loire is a département in the east-central part of France occupying the Loire Rivers upper reaches. ... Somme is a French département named after the Somme River. ...

This centralised location in Gallia, with its infrastructure almost unharmed, ascertained on one side a certain stability in the years of the Völkerwanderung, but on the other hand also invited the frankish neighbors to the East to expand into this area. Map of Gaul circa 58 BC Gaul (from Latin Gallia, c. ... The German term Völkerwanderung (the migration of peoples), is used in historiography as an alternate label for the Migration Period, of Germanic, Slavic and other tribes on the European continent during the period AD 300–900. ... The Franks were one of several west Germanic tribes who entered the late Roman Empire from Frisia as foederati and established a lasting realm in an area that covers most of modern-day France and the region of Franconia in Germany, forming the historic kernel of both these two modern...

The realm of Syagrius was of almost the same size as the frankish one, whereas the frankish one was subdivised in petty kingdoms, and partly untouched by roman culture, especially on the right side of the Rhine. The Rhine canyon (Ruinaulta) in Graubünden in Switzerland Length 1,320 km Elevation of the source Vorderrhein: approx. ...

But Clovis I managed to unite the Franks, and to motivate them to strike a decisive blow against Syagrius.

The ensuing battle was a major success for the Franks, as the Romans were devastatingly beaten. Syagrius was trying to flee into exile to the Visigoths under Alaric II, but was extradited to Clovis, which resulted in Syagrius's immediate execution. Exile is a form of punishment. ... The Visigoths, originally Tervingi, or Vesi (the noble ones), one of the two main branches of the Goths (of which the Ostrogothi were the other), were one of the loosely-termed Germanic peoples that disturbed the late Roman Empire. ... Alaric II (d. ...

The realm of the Franks almost doubled in size, bordering the Loire near the realm of the Visigoths.

In the Battle of Vouillé, the Visigoths were routed, and forced to retreat to the south of the Pyrenées. The Battle of Vouillé or Campus Vogladensis was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at a small place near Poitiers, (Gaul) in the spring 507. ...