The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.

Childeric's son Clovis I ( 481 – 511 ) went on to unite most of Gaul north of the Loire under his control around 486, when he defeated Syagrius, the Roman ruler in those parts.

Most names shown are the Latin names of 5th century peoples, with the exceptions of Syagrius ( king of a Gallo-Roman rump state ), Odoacer ( Germanic peoples | Germanic king of Italy ), and Julius Nepos | ( Julius ) Nepos ( nominally last Western Roman emperor, de facto ruler of Dalmatia ).

An important part of Clovis ' legacy is that he locally succeeded to the power of the Romans in 486 by beating the Gallo-Roman ruler Syagrius in the battle of Soissons.

* Aegidius dies ( possibly poisoned ) and is succeeded by his son Syagrius who becomes ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( Gaul ).

The common consensus has been to follow Kurth, based on the historical truism that Romans hated kingship from the days of the expulsion of Tarquin the Proud ; for example, Syagrius ' article in the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire omits this title, preferring to refer to him as a " Roman ruler ( in North Gaul )".

At that point Aegidius's son, Syagrius, took his place as ruler.

Domain of Soissons | Kingdom of Syagrius ( 464 – 486 )

Syagrius son of Aegidius ruled the Domain of Soissons until his murder in 487.

The Domain of Soissons, also known as the Domain of Aegidius and the Domain of Syagrius, was a rump state of the Western Roman Empire in northern Gaul ( present day France ) for some twenty-five years during Late Antiquity.

In 476, under the rule of Syagrius, the Domain of Soissons failed to accept the new rule of Odoacer who had dethroned the last Western Emperor earlier that year.

Syagrius was the son of Aegidius, the last Roman magister militum per Gallias ; he preserved his father's rump state, the Domain of Soissons, between the Somme and the Loire, calling himself dux.

In 486, Clovis I, leader of the Salian Franks, defeated Syagrius at Soissons and subsequently united most of northern and central Gaul under his rule.

In 486, with the help of Ragnachar, Clovis defeated Syagrius, the last Roman official in northern Gaul, who ruled the area around Soissons in present-day Picardy.

From 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son Syagrius, Noviodunum was the capital of the " Kingdom of Soissons ", until it fell to the Frankish king Clovis I in the Battle of Soissons.

Syagrius preserved his father's rump state between the Somme and the Loire around Soissons after the collapse of central rule in the Western Empire, a domain Gregory of Tours called the " Kingdom " of Syagrius.

Few details are known of the subsequent clash, the Battle of Soissons, but Syagrius was decisively defeated and fled.

In a thirty-year reign ( 481 – 511 ) he defeated the Roman general Syagrius and conquered the Roman enclave of Soissons, defeated the Alemanni ( Tolbiac, 504 ) and established Frankish hegemony over them, defeated the Visigoths ( Vouillé, 507 ) and conquered their entire kingdom ( save Septimania ) with its capital at Toulouse, and conquered the Bretons ( according to Gregory of Tours ) and made them vassals of Francia.

* Battle of Soissons ( 486 ) – A battle between the Franks, under Clovis I, and the Western Roman Empire, under Syagrius

In 486 the Frankish armies under Clovis triumphed over Syagrius, the last Roman official in Northern Gaul, at the Battle of Soissons.

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.

Syagrius lost the final battle of Soissons in 486 ; this victory is remembered by many as Clovis ' greatest victory.

Clotaire I received the area formerly ruled by Syagrius ( Clotaire himself had been born in Soissons a decade after Syagrius ' death ).

The Battle of Soissons was fought in 486 between Frankish forces under Clovis I and the Gallo-Roman domain of Soissons under Syagrius.

Despite being isolated from the surviving portions of the Roman Empire, Syagrius managed to maintain a degree of Roman authority in northern Gaul for twenty years, and his state survived longer than the Western Empire itself, the last Emperors being overthrown or killed in 476 and 480.

Even after 476, Syagrius continued to maintain that he was merely governing a Roman province.

* 486: Clovis defeats Syagrius and conquers the last free remnant of the Western Roman Empire.

* Syagrius, Roman official and son of Aegidius

Roman rule under Syagrius ends.

* Syagrius, Roman official in Gaul ( approximate date )

* Flavius Afranius Syagrius, Roman politician and administrator

Syagrius ( 430 – 486 or 487 ) was the last Roman official in Gaul, whose defeat by king Clovis I of the Franks is considered the end of Western Roman rule outside of Italy.

" Though often portrayed as an independent Roman state in north Gaul, Aegidius and Syagrius ' ' kingdom ' was probably not much bigger than a day's march from their army.

* Flavius Afranius Syagrius, ( b. ca 345 ) Roman consul

* Syagrius ( 430 –? 487 ), the last Roman commander in Gaul before the invasion of the Franks.

Kingdom of Syagrius ( North-West ) within the Western Roman Empire ( blue ).

While both Syagrius and Odoacer sent messengers to the Eastern Roman Empire, the Eastern emperor Zeno chose to offer legitimacy to Odoacer instead of Syagrius.

The second brother, Syagrius, after long service in the palace household of the Franks and long familiarity with Clotaire, was made comte d ’ Albi and exercised juridical authority as praefectus in the city of Marseille.

Ralph Mathisen points out the name of Aegidius ' son, Syagrius, " would suggest that he was related to the Syagrii of Lyons, one of the oldest, most aristocratic families of Gaul.

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

" The Franks then imprisoned Syagrius, and once his control over Syagrius ' former kingdom was secure Clovis had him beheaded.

" Any threat of war Clovis could make would only be effective if they were neighbors ; " it is nowhere written that Syagrius was handed over in 486 or 487.

Syagrius flees to the Visigoths ( under king Alaric II ), but Clovis threatens war and he is handed over for execution.

The distinct area originated at the time of the death of Clovis I ( as well as the conquered territories over Syagrius ), when his sons divided his lands between them.

The honour was usually conferred on metropolitans, especially those nominated vicars by the pope, but it was sometimes conferred on simple bishops ( e. g., on Syagrius of Autun, Donus of Messina, and John of Syracuse by Pope Gregory I ).

: Syagrius ' kingdom.

Syagrius governed this Gallo-Roman enclave from the death of his father in 464 until 486, when he was defeated in battle by Clovis I.

Syagrius managed to hold off the neighbouring Salian Franks, who were internally divided under kings including Childeric.

As Edward Gibbon later wrote, " It would be ungenerous, without some more accurate knowledge of his strength and resources, to condemn the rapid flight of Syagrius, who escaped after the loss of a battle to the distant court of Toulouse.