The village was known as Ambariacum in the 6th century and the land belonged to the castles of the first Burgundian kings.
This event led to a civil war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians.
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Two rival factions, the Armagnacs and the Burgundians, vied for power within the regency council headed by the queen Isabeau of Bavaria.
Burgundians, an East Germanic tribe, who first appear in history in South East Europe.
(In Old Norse sources the names are Gunnar, Brynhild, and Gudrún as normally rendered in English.) In fact, the Etzel of the Nibelungenlied is based on Attila the Hun.
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Zosimus (1.68) reports them being defeated by the emperor Probus in 278 in Gaul.
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These two people had moved into the Agri Decumates on the eastern side of the Rhine, an area today referred to still as Swabia, and were sometimes attacking Roman Gaul together and sometimes fighting each other.
In the Dark Ages, according to legend, the territory of Guînes became the property of one Aigneric, Mayor of the Palace of the Burgundian king Théodebert II.
After Thebes became a possession of the Latin dukes, which were of the Burgundian family called De la Roche, it replaced Athens as the capital and seat of government, although Athens remained the most influential ecclesiastical centre in the duchy and site of a prime fortress.
In 822, Pepin, king of Aquitaine married Ingeltrude (also called Engelberga, Hringard, or Ringart), daughter of Theodobert, count of Madrie (c. 800-after 876), who was a son of Nibelung (Nivelan) of the royal house of the Burgundians.
After the Romans came the Franks and the Burgundians and presumably these tribes populated the region.
After the ravages of the wars against the English and Burgundians, according to English statistics, there were only 48.
The whole country between the Alps and the Pyrenees, between the Rhine and the Ocean, has been laid waste by hordes of Quadi, Vandals, Sarmatians, Alans, Gepids, Herules, Saxons, Burgundians, Allemanni, and—alas! for the commonweal!
The 520s in eastern Gaul witnessed the war against the Burgundians that was waged by the four successors of Clovis.
In 515, the basilica became the center of a monastery built on land donated by Sigismund of Burgundy, the first king of the Burgundians to convert from Arianism to Trinitarian Christianity.
King Theoderic of the Ostrogoths sent an army, led by his sword-bearer Theudis, against Gesalec, ostensibly on behalf of Amalaric; Gesalec fled to Africa, and the Ostrogoths drove back the Franks and their Burgundian allies, regaining possession of "the south of Novempopulana, Rodez, probably even Albi, and even Toulose".
Brittany's army arrived on the 13th of July at Beaugency and intended to join forces with the Burgundians and to attack the King's army with a force of 35,000 men.
So late as the 10th and even the 11th centuries we find the law of the Burgundians invoked as personal law in Cluny charters, but doubtless these passages refer to accretions of local customs, rather than to actual paragraphs of the ancient code.
The Völsungasaga (often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs) is a legendary saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose rendition of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and destruction of the Burgundians).
The Burgundians became neighbours of the Visigoths after being resettled to Savoy by Flavius Aëtius in 443 during the rule of Gunderic of Burgundy.