Kingdom of Soissons
| Kingdom of Soissons | ||||||||||
| Division of the Western Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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.png) The Kingdom of Soissons in 486
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| Capital | Noviodunum (modern-day Soissons) | |||||||||
| Languages | Latin, Gaulish | |||||||||
| Religion | Christianity and Paganism | |||||||||
| Government | Roman rump state | |||||||||
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| • | 457-464 | Aegidius | ||||||||
| • | 464-486 | Syagrius | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Antiquity | |||||||||
| • | Established | 457 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 486 | ||||||||
| Currency | Roman currency | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
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The Kingdom of Soissons was a rump state of the Western Roman Empire in northern Gaul (present day France) for some twenty-five years during Late Antiquity.
The emergence of the Kingdom of Soissons began when Emperor Majorian (457–461) appointed Aegidius as magister militum of Roman Gaul. When Majorian was killed on the orders of Ricimer in 461, Aegidius maintained his own rule in much of his province, creating a Roman remnant state that came to be known as the Kingdom of Soissons. In the chaos of contemporary Gaul, he maintained his power against Franks to his east and Visigoths to his south; his relations to the Romano-British of Brittany may have been friendly. Aegidius died in 464 or 465. His son Syagrius succeeded to the rule. In 486 Syagrius lost the Battle of Soissons to the Frankish king Clovis I and the domain was thereafter under the control of the Franks.
The Kingdom of Soissons originated in the reign of the Western Emperor Majorian (457–461). Majorian appointed Aegidius to be magister militum of the Gallic provinces. The remaining Roman territory in Gaul in the northwest was connected with the Roman possessions in the Auvergne, Provence and Languedoc which connected these to Italy. During Majorian's reign, that corridor was annexed by the Germanic tribes now occupying Gaul, thus effectively cutting off Aegidius and his citizens from the Empire. Majorian and Aegidius had recovered the Roman position in most of Gaul, but with the death of Majorian in 461 the Roman position in the center and south deteriorated. These provinces were annexed by the Visigoths and Burgundians in the years 462-477, which left the remaining 'Roman' Kingdom of Syagrius isolated.
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