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List of kings of Burgundy


The following is a list of the kings of the two Kingdoms of Burgundy, and a number of related political entities devolving from Carolingian machinations over family relations.

The Burgundians had left Bornholm c. 300 and settled near the Vistula. Jordanes relates that in this area they were thoroughly defeated by the Gepids in the 4th century and then moved to the Rhineland.

Flavius Aëtius moves the Burgundians into Sapaudia (Upper Rhône Basin).

Gradually conquered by the Frankish kings Childebert I and Clothar I from 532–534

United with Neustria under one king, but with separate administration (613–751)

The sons of Louis the Pious divided the Frankish kingdom in the treaty of Verdun in 843. Burgundy was divided between the brothers

After Lothar's death in 855, his realm was divided between his sons. The Burgundian territories were divided between:

For the kings of Provence before its (re)union with the rest of Burgundy, see the list of dukes, kings, counts, and margraves of Provence.

Lothar subsumed his portion of Burgundy into the Kingdom of Lotharingia and at his brother Charles' death, gained some northern districts of the deceased's kingdom. When Lothar II died in 869, his realm was divided between his uncles Charles the Bald and Louis the German in the Treaty of Mersen.


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