Burgundy: Europe’s Lost Barbarian Kingdom

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This is the FIRST part in a series on the Burgundians, covering the events of 406-534. SUBSEQUENT parts will continue to the 16th century.

Chapters:
0:00 - Battle of the Mauriacian Fields
5:24 - Introducing the Burgundians
7:33 - When the Rhine froze over
9:40 - The fall of the West
11:04 - A tale of two peoples
14:13 - Faihitha
18:14 - A tale of two Christian sects
20:09 - The tragedy of Sigismund
23:26 - The fall of Burgundy
27:53 - The end of the beginning

Sources:
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 3. London: Strahan & Cadell, 1781.
Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks.
Jordanes. The Origin and Deeds of the Goths.
Schultheis, Evan. The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields, AD 451: Flavius Aetius, Attila the Hun, and the Transformation of Gaul. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2019.
Van Loo, Bart. Burgundians: A Vanished Empire. London: Head of Zeus, 2021.
Wolfram, Herwig. History of the Goths. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Special thanks to my Burgundian collaborators (go check out their awesome content):
Maps by ‪@KnowHistory‬
Proofreading by ‪@ValoisBurgundy‬ (all mistakes my own -DM)
Total War cinematics by ‪@legendarian4690‬

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