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[/FONT][FONT="]CHAPTER 1- EMERGING FROM THE ANARCHY[/FONT]
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[/FONT][FONT="]CHAPTER 1- EMERGING FROM THE ANARCHY[/FONT]
ON September 4TH 476 A.D the Roman Empire was supposed to be overrun, destroyed and made obsolete. Yet just declaring the fall of the west with the conquest of an out dated city would be insulting history. To the North in Sossians, under the rule of the Gallo roman Syagrius Rome was very much alive, So begins a history of two and a half centuries. Early on Syagrius faced numerous threats that almost sniffed out the fledging nation immediately. The most dangerous of these threats were by far the Franks to the east, they already stripped Gaul of the Rhineland’s decades before, but under the rule of a certain Childeric had become allies. The accession of Childrec’s son Clovis changed all of this. While sources remain sketchy, it is clear that Clovis made a move against Syagrius it is clear that he did not have all of the franks behind him and there was a certain faction that fought with the Gaul’s in 485 . What we do know of the battle near the city of Sossians there was a major battle in size and destruction only supplemented by the hunnish war three decades before. Clovis’s army seemed to had been flanked by Roman Allied German Calvary resulting in the death of Clovis and most of the rouge franks. Syagrius reclaimed the lost border lands and marched to the Rhine, killing those that opposed him along the way. He would die a peaceful death on January 3rd 490, his son Syagrius III would prove to be a competent ruler.
Syagrius ignored opportunities to step on the Burgandi and the Allmaani in order to reclaim yhe still roman lands in Britain. Since the withdrawal of the last legions in 410 Brittan had fallen into continual chaos for the past 80 years. The former roman provinces were quickly split into feudal estates who then found themselves vulnerable at the hands of the native picts tribes. Desperately one of the local rulers Vortigern invited the Saxons over to Britain to drive back the picts, in exchange for some land around Canticum, (Kent). The Saxons took up the offer enthusiastically and quickly pushed back the raiders, however after the Saxon Warriors observing the still advanced architecture of the Roman Britains decided they could never return to their shabby communities in Saxony. Thousands of Germans emigrated to Britain, and turned on Vortigern, thus by 490 the Saxons had driven deep into Britain and split up into a few kingdoms like Kent and Sussex.
In 492 Syagrius II leaving local control in his wife Zoe, crossed the British Channel in the spring with legions landing on the village Dubrus. This army of 10,000 was hardly shadow of the legions during the glory days. As with a growing trend in the last years of the empire there was a large contingent of Calvary who were mainly Frankish, there was Some Armocians from the far west peninsula. Finally there were around 2,000-4,000, Romans that armed and fought in a way similar to that of the legions from Constantine Reforms initiated two centuries before. The Chronicle of the Last Romans state that Syagrius was almost immediately ambushed by southern angels and jutes from the Saxon communities in Canticum, however these failed to deter the gallo Romans and the legions began to pillage the country side in the summer of Finally provoking the Teutons to an open field battle near the old city of Londnium in spring of 493, driving out most of the newcomers from southern Albion for half a century.
The Expedition marched through middle southern Britain dispersing many Saxon colonies along the way, and onwards to the remnants of the Christian Roman British in Cornwall and Wales. Establishing good relations with the local leaders and regular trade routes, Syagrius also left some garrisons to help protect Southern Britain before returning to the European Continent in 495. Most importantly Syagrius’s routine included many missionaries- some of them who had lived in Papal Rome and formally brought the Britions into the Catholic Church. Missions were also sent north to convert the Pagan Scots and Pitics which over time had once again become a nuisance. Sygarius II mysteriously died around 499, leaving control to one his rising generals Aedigus.
Maps can be found here:
http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/File:Sygarius_485.PNG
http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/File:Sygarius_500.PNG
Information and help regarding late roman Britain and Gaul will be appreciated
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