The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire

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Valois Burgundy's territorial appetite frightened the Swiss Confederacy, leading to the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477).

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Instead, the book seems to be driven by an underlying and implicit thesis: that it is possible to tell the story of the Low Countries by using the Dukes of Burgundy as the starting point and building from there.Apparently as part of a truce, the Emperor Honorius later officially "granted" them the land, [12] with its capital at the old Celtic Roman settlement of Borbetomagus (present Worms).

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At this time or shortly afterwards, the Burgundian kingdom was divided among Gundobad and his brothers, Godigisel, Chilperic II, and Gundomar I. A longer perspective might well make sense if the focus on the book remained on Burgundy itself but, from the 14th century onwards, the author focuses much more on the regions of the Low Countries acquired by the dukes; in fact, Burgundy itself is strangely absent from much of the book from this point onwards.

The majority of these Danubian peoples moved through Gaul and eventually established themselves in kingdoms in Roman Hispania. They retained political control in Switzerland but lost contact with their former homelands and were assimilated into the Roman Celtic population. The historian Pline [ citation needed] tells us that Gunderic ruled the areas of Saône, Dauphiny, Savoie and a part of Provence.