Roman general (430–486); last King of Soissons (r. 464-486)
For other uses, see Syagrius (disambiguation).
Syagrius
Born
430 Gaul, Western Roman Empire
Died
486–494 (aged 56–64) Toulouse, Visigothic Kingdom
Cause of death
Assassination
Known for
Final ruler of the Domain of Soissons
Battles/wars
Battle of Soissons
Children
at least 1
Syagrius (430 – 486[1] or 487 or 493–4[2]) was a Roman general and the last ruler of a Roman rump state in northern Gaul, now called the Kingdom of Soissons. Gregory of Tours referred to him as King of the Romans. Syagrius's defeat by King of the Franks Clovis I is considered the end of Western Roman rule outside of Italy. He inherited his position from his father, Aegidius,[3][4] the last Roman magister militum per Gallias. Syagrius preserved his father's territory 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 Soissons. 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.
Historians have mistrusted the title "Rex Romanorum" that Gregory of Tours gave him, at least as early as Godefroid Kurth, who dismissed it as a gross error in 1893. 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)". However, Steven Fanning has assembled a number of examples of rex being used in a neutral, if not favorable, context, and argues that "the phrase Romanorum rex is not peculiar to Gregory of Tours or to Frankish sources", and that Gregory's usage may indeed show "that they were, or were seen to be, claiming to be Roman emperors."[5]
^"Syagrius of Burgundy, King of Soissons". Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
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