Syagrius (born 430, died 486 or 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, … Wikipedia
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