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Gundobad, Patrician
Patrician

The term "patrician" originally referred to a group of elitism citizens in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high council officials, and after the fall of the Western Empire became a term for Byzantine Imperial governors in the West....
 of the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
 (472-473) also became King of the Burgundians
King of Burgundy

The following is a list of the Kings of Kingdom of Burgundy....
 (473-516), after his father Gundioc of Burgundy, though he had to fight off three brothers to seize his title.

When the former Patrician Ricimer
Ricimer

Ricimer was a Germanic general who was master of the Western Roman Empire during part of the fifth century.Ricimer was an Arianism Christian, the son of a prince of the Suebi....
, who had been the power behind the throne
Power behind the throne

The phrase power behind the throne refers to a person or cabal that informally exercises the real power of an office. In politics, it most commonly refers to a spouse, aide, or advisor of a political leader who serves as de facto leader, setting policy through influence or manipulation....
 for the Western Empire, died in 472, his nephew Gundobad seized the title. With his new power he elevated the current Count of the Domestics, Glycerius
Glycerius

Flavius Glycerius was one of the last of the Western Roman Emperors and later served as a bishop in the early Catholicism Church....
, to the position of Western Roman Emperor.






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Gundobad, Patrician
Patrician

The term "patrician" originally referred to a group of elitism citizens in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high council officials, and after the fall of the Western Empire became a term for Byzantine Imperial governors in the West....
 of the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
 (472-473) also became King of the Burgundians
King of Burgundy

The following is a list of the Kings of Kingdom of Burgundy....
 (473-516), after his father Gundioc of Burgundy, though he had to fight off three brothers to seize his title.

When the former Patrician Ricimer
Ricimer

Ricimer was a Germanic general who was master of the Western Roman Empire during part of the fifth century.Ricimer was an Arianism Christian, the son of a prince of the Suebi....
, who had been the power behind the throne
Power behind the throne

The phrase power behind the throne refers to a person or cabal that informally exercises the real power of an office. In politics, it most commonly refers to a spouse, aide, or advisor of a political leader who serves as de facto leader, setting policy through influence or manipulation....
 for the Western Empire, died in 472, his nephew Gundobad seized the title. With his new power he elevated the current Count of the Domestics, Glycerius
Glycerius

Flavius Glycerius was one of the last of the Western Roman Emperors and later served as a bishop in the early Catholicism Church....
, to the position of Western Roman Emperor. Gundobad, however left office in 473, as his father, Gundioc, had died and he had inherited Burgundy along with his three brothers; Godegisel, Chilperic II
Chilperic II of Burgundy

Chilperic II was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon....
 and Gundomar.

But Gundobad was not content with his fractured portion of Burgundy, and turned against his brothers with hope of control over all the land.

In 486 he killed Gundomar, though little is known of this encounter.

In 493 he turned his sword against Chilperic, and drowned his wife. Gundobad exiled his two daughters, Chroma becoming a nun. The other, Clotilde
Clotilde

Saint Clotilde , also known as Clotilda or simply Clotild, was the daughter of Chilperic II of Burgundy and Caretena, and wife of the Frankish king Clovis I....
, was found by the men of Clovis I
Clovis I

Clovis was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Franks under one king. He succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks, one of the Frankish tribes who were then occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their centre around Tournai and Cambrai along the modern frontier between France and Belgium, in an...
, King of the Franks
Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
, who sent word to Gundobad, asking Clotilde's hand in marriage. Gundobad was too afraid to decline.

Gundobad's battle with Godegisel raged long. Unaware of the other's actions, each called upon Clovis
Clovis

Clovis may refer to:In geography:* Clovis, California* Clovis, New MexicoIn royalty:* Clovis I, the first king of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler...
 trying to persuade him to join forces against the other. Clovis sided with Godegisel, who had offered him his pleasure of tribute and crushed Gundobad's force. Gundobad fled but King Clovis pursued him to Avignon
Avignon

Avignon is a Communes of France in the Vaucluse Departments of France in southeastern France with an estimated mid-2004 population of 89,300 in the city itself and a population of 290,466 in the aire urbaine at the 1999 census....
. Gundobad feared the worst with Clovis's mighty army at the gates. But a man of wit called Aridius went from Gundobad to Clovis and charmed him into taking his advice, which was to spare Gundobad but force him into paying a yearly tribute.

Gundobad later broke his promise of tribute as he regained his power and besieged Godegisel, locked up in the city of Vienne
Vienne, Isère

Vienne is a Communes of France in southeastern France, located 20 miles south of Lyon, on the Rh?ne River. It is the second largest city after Grenoble in the Is?re department in France, of which it is a Subprefectures in France....
. As famine devoured Vienne, Godegisel expelled the common people from the city for fear for himself. An outraged expelled artisan seeking vengeance on Godegisel went to Gundobad, and with his help he navigated the aqueduct and broke into the city. He murdered Godegisel in 501 in an Arian
Arianism

Arianism is the theological teaching of Arius , a Christian priest, who was first ruled a heresy at the First Council of Nicea, later exonerated and then pronounced a heretic again after his death....
 church along with the bishop.

Gundobad was now sole king of Burgundy. He made peace with the Franks, converted to Catholicism
Catholicism

Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its Theology and doctrines, its Catholic liturgy, Ethics, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
, and died peacefully succeeded by his son Sigismund
Sigismund of Burgundy

File:Herma of Saint Sigismund in Plock Cathedral.PNGSigismund was king of the Burgundians from 516 to his death. He was the son of king Gundobad, whom he succeeded in 516....
 in 516. He also had another son: Godomar
Godomar

Godomar , son of king Gundobad, was king of Kingdom of Burgundy. He ruled Burgundy after his elder brother's death in 524 until 534.Both he and his brother Sigismund of Burgundy were defeated in battle by Clovis' sons....
. Godomar would succeed his brother after his death in 524.