13 Facts About Burgundians

Burgundians are first mentioned together with the Alamanni as early as the 11th panegyric to emperor Maximian given in Trier in 291, and referring to events that must have happened between 248 and 291, and they apparently remained neighbours for centuries.

Ethnonym Burgundians is commonly used in English to refer to the Burgundi who settled in eastern Gaul and the western Alps during the 5th century.

Origins of the Burgundians before they reached the area near the Roman-controlled Rhine is a subject of various old proposals, but these are doubted by some modern scholars such as Ian Wood and Walter Goffart.

Jordanes reports that during the 3rd century, the Burgundians living in the Vistula basin were almost annihilated by Fastida, king of the Gepids, whose kingdom was at the mouth of the Vistula.

Some Burgundians migrated westwards and settled as foederati in the Roman province of Germania Prima along with the Middle Rhine.

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Reasons not cited in the sources, the Burgundians were granted foederati status a second time, and in 443 were resettled by Aetius in the region of Maxima Sequanorum.

The Burgundians expanded their realm south into Sapaudia, which corresponds to the modern-day Savoy, and Burgundians probably even lived near Lugdunum, known today as Lyon.

Burgundians set up Vienne as the capital of the kingdom of Burgundy.

Burgundians were extending their power over eastern Gaul—that is western Switzerland and eastern France, as well as northern Italy.

At first allied with Clovis' Franks against the Visigoths in the early 6th century, the Burgundians were eventually conquered at Autun by the Franks in 532 after a first attempt in the Battle of Vezeronce.

Some proper names of Burgundians are recorded, and some words used in the area in modern times are thought to be derived from the ancient Burgundian language, but it is often difficult to distinguish these from Germanic words of other origin, and in any case the modern form of the words is rarely suitable to infer much about the form in the old language.

Somewhere in the east the Burgundians had converted to the Arian Christianity from earlier Germanic paganism.

Burgundians left three legal codes, among the earliest from any of the Germanic tribes.