Sigismund of Burgundy

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Sigismund of Burgundy

For other nobles of the same name, please see Sigismund
Sigismund

Sigismund is a German proper name, meaning "protection through victory", from Old High German sigu "victory" + munt "hand, protection"....

of Saint Sigismund in Plock

Plock

Plock is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, with 131,011 inhabitants. It is located in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of the Plock Voivodeship ....
]] Sigismund (died 524) was king of the Burgundians

Burgundians

File:Roman Empire 125.svgThe Burgundians were an East Germanic language Germanic tribes which may have emigrated from mainland Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr , and from there to mainland Europe....
from 516 to his death. He was the son of king Gundobad

Gundobad

Gundobad, Patrician of the Western Roman Empire also became King of Burgundy , after his father Gundioc of Burgundy, though he had to fight off three brothers to seize his title....
, whom he succeeded in 516. Sigismund and his brother 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....
were defeated in battle by 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...
' sons and Godomar fled. Sigismund was taken by Chlodomer

Chlodomer

Chlodomer, also spelled Clodomir or Clodomer was the second of the four sons of Clovis I, List of Frankish Kings. On the death of his father, in 511, he divided the kingdom of the Franks with his three brothers: Theuderic I, Childebert I, and Clotaire I....
, King of Orleans

Orléans

Orl?ans is a city in north-central France, about 130 km southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret Departments of France and of the Centre R?gion in France....
, where he was kept as a prisoner. Godomar then rallied the Burgundian army and won back his kingdom.

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Plock

Burgundians

Gundobad

Godomar

Clovis

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Orléans

Theuderic I

Theuderic I was the Merovingian king of Metz, Rheims, or Austrasia ? as it is variously called ? from 511 to 533 or 534.He was the son of Clovis I and one of his earlier wives or concubines....
, King of Metz, on Burgundy

Burgundians

File:Roman Empire 125.svgThe Burgundians were an East Germanic language Germanic tribes which may have emigrated from mainland Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr , and from there to mainland Europe....
in 524.

Sigismund was a student of Avitus of Vienne

Avitus of Vienne

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, Saint Avitus, was Ancient Diocese of Vienne in Gaul .Avitus was born of a prominent Gallo-Roman senatorial family in the kinship of Emperor Avitus....
, the Catholic bishop of Vienne who converted Sigismund from the 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....
faith of his Burgundian forebears. Sigismund was inspired to found a monastery dedicated to Saint Maurice

Saint Maurice

Saint Maurice was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century, and one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that group....
at Agaune

Agaunum

Ancient Rome Agaunum, the modern Saint-Maurice, Switzerland in the cantons of Switzerland Valais in southwesternmost Switzerland, was a minor post confined between the Rh?ne River and the mountains along the well-travelled road that led from Roman Genava, modern Geneva, over the Alps by the Great St....
in Valais

Valais

The Valais is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the southwestern part of Switzerland, around the valley of the Rh?ne from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps....
in 515. The following year he became king of the Burgundians.

The 6th century king's difficulties began shortly thereafter. Sigismund's son opposed him in 517, and insulted his new wife, so Sigismund had him strangled. Then, overcome with remorse, Sigismund retreated to the monastery that he had founded.

In 523, he led the Burgundians against the invading 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....
of Childebert I

Childebert I

Childebert I was the Frankish King of the Franks, a Merovingian dynast, one of the four sons of Clovis I who shared the kingdom of the Franks upon their father's death in 511....
, Clotaire I

Clotaire I

Chlothar I , called the Old , King of the Franks, was one of the four sons of Clovis I. He was born about 497 in Soissons .On the death of his father in 511, he received, as his share of the kingdom, the town of Soissons, which he made his capital; the cities of Laon, Noyon, Cambrai, and Maastricht; and the lower course of the Meuse...
and Theodebert I. Though he put on a monk's habit and hid in a cell near his abbey, he was captured by Clotaire, taken to Orléans

Orléans

Orl?ans is a city in north-central France, about 130 km southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret Departments of France and of the Centre R?gion in France....
and put to death. Afterwards, he was honoured by the Burgundians as a martyr

Martyr

The term martyr is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices his or her life in order to further a cause or belief for many....
. His bones were recovered from the well at Coulmiers

Coulmiers

Coulmiers is a Communes of France in the Loiret Departments of France in north-central France.See also*Communes of the Loiret department...
where his body had been thrown, and a shrine developed near Agaune. Eventually Sigismund was canonized

Canonization

Canonization is the act by which a particular Christian church declares a deceased person to be a saint and is included in the canon, or list, of recognized saints....
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Correspondence has survived between Avitus, who was a poet and one of the last masters of the classical arts, and Sigismund.

Veneration

In the 14th century, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV , born Wenceslaus , was the eleventh king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and Holy Roman Emperor.He was the eldest son and heir of John of Bohemia, who died on 26 August 1346, thus Charles inherited the Count of Luxembourg and the King of Bohemia....
, transferred Sigismund's relic

Relic

A relic is an object or a personal item of Religion significance, carefully preserved with an air of veneration as a tangible memorial. Relics are an important aspect of some forms of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, shamanism, and many other religions....
s to Prague

Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
, hence he has become a patron saint

Patron saint

A patron saint is a saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, or person. Patron saints, because they have already transcended to the metaphysical, are able to intercede effectively for the needs of their special charges....
of the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
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Family and Issue

He married Ostrogotha, the illegitimate daughter of Theodoric the Great

Theodoric the Great

File:Theodoric bronze weight inlaid with silver issued by prefect Catulinus Rome 493 526.jpg'Theodoric the Great' , known in Latin as 'Flavius Theodericus' and in Greek sources, was king of the Ostrogoths , ruler of Italy , and regent of the Visigoths ....
and a concubine in 494 as a part of Theodoric's negotiation for an alliance with Sigimund and the Burgundians. Both had the following issue:

Sigeric (494/95 - 522, murdered by his own father
Suavegotha (495/96 - ?) She was married to Theuderic I
Theuderic I

Theuderic I was the Merovingian king of Metz, Rheims, or Austrasia ? as it is variously called ? from 511 to 533 or 534.He was the son of Clovis I and one of his earlier wives or concubines....
, son 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...
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Sigismund of Burgundy

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