Information AboutSyagrius |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT SYAGRIUS | |
| roman duces | |
| ancient roman generals | |
| 430 births | |
| 480s deaths | |
| roman gaul | |
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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. Syagrius governed this Gallo-Roman enclave as Dux from the death of his father in 464 until 486 , when his kingdom was destroyed by the territorial expansion of the Frankish kingdom of Clovis I . Having been defeated at his capital in the Battle Of Soissons , Syagrius sought refuge with Alaric II , king of the Visigoth s, based at Toulouse , but was instead imprisoned and repatriated to Clovis, and was murdered in 487 , stabbed in secret according to Gregory Of Tours . His brief regime is of interest because he represented the last recorded instance of native Gallo-Roman authority in s as the " King Of The Romans ". EXTERNAL LINK
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