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		The Burgundians were an East Germanic tribe who probably emigrated from the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr (the Island of the Burgundians): in the saga of Thorstein Vikingsson in the Prose Edda Vesete settled in an island or holm, which was called Borgund’s holm.
		Burgundians lived in an uneasy relationship with the imperial Roman government: in 370 the western Emperor Valentinian I attempted to enlist the Burgundians against their enemies the Alamanni, promising to support them with Roman forces.
		Burgundian raids into Roman Upper Gallia_Belgica became intolerable and were ruthlessly brought to an end in 436, when the Roman general Aëtius; called in Hun mercenaries who overwhelmed the Rhineland kingdom (with its capital at the old Celtic Roman settlement of Borbetomagus Worms) in 437.
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	Burgundians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Burgundians or Burgundes were an East Germanic tribe which may have emigrated from Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr (the Island of the Burgundians), and from here to mainland Europe.
		In all, eight Burgundians kings of the house of Gundahar ruled until the kingdom was overrun by the Franks in 534.
		The Burgundian kingdom was made part of the Merovingian kingdoms, and the Burgundians themselves were by and large absorbed as well.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Burgundians.htm (1183 words)

	Burgundy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Burgundians were one of the Germanic peoples who filled the power vacuum left by the collapse of the western half of the Roman empire.
		The duchy soon became a major rival to the French throne, because the Dukes of Burgundy succeeded in assembling an empire stretching from Switzerland to the North Sea, mostly by marriage.
		The Burgundian Empire consisted of a number of fiefdoms on both sides of the (then largely symbolical) border between the French kingdom and the German Empire.
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	AllRefer.com - Armagnacs and Burgundians (French History) - Encyclopedia
		Armagnacs and Burgundians, opposing factions that fought to control France in the early 15th cent.
		The followers of the duke of Burgundy, or Burgundians, were allied with members of the lower classes, notably the Cabochiens, who were particularly strong in Paris.
		Although the terms Armagnacs and Burgundians ceased to have their original meanings, the struggle between the French crown and Burgundy continued until the death (1477) of Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
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	BURGUNDIANS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Burgundians migrated westwards and settled in the Rhine_Valley.
		Despite their new status as ''foederati'', Burgundian raids into Roman Upper Gallia_Belgica became intolerable and were ruthlessly brought to an end in 436, when the Roman general AÃ«tius called in Hun mercenaries who overwhelmed the Rhineland kingdom (with its capital at the old Celtic Roman settlement of Borbetomagus/Worms) in 437.
		The destruction of Worms and the Burgundian kingdom by the Huns became the subject of heroic legends that were afterwards incorporated in the ''Nibelungenlied''—on which Wagner based his Ring_Cycle—where King Gunther (Gundahar) and Queen BrÃ¼nhild hold their court at Worms, and Siegfried comes to woo Kriemhild.
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	Burgundians - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Burgundians were an East Germanic tribe who most likely lived at the Vistula river and migrated westwards into the Rhine Valley during the Völkerwanderung, or Germanic migrations.
		At first allies with Clovis's Franks against the Visigoths in the early 6th century, the Burgundians were eventually conquered by the Franks in AD The Burgundian kingdom was made part of the Merovingian kingdoms; the Burgundians themselves were by and large absorbed as well.
		One of the earliest Germanic law codes, the Lex Gundobada[?] or Lex Burgundionum, is a collection of the constitutions or laws issued by king Gundobad[?], the best-known of the Burgundian kings, whose reign began in 474 and died in 516.
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	The Burgundians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The rise of the Franks under Clovis committed the Burgundians as allies to the Franks in which they helped Clovis to defeat the Visigoths in 507 AD It was twice that the Burgundians faced destruction, the second time being fatal.
		But later in 554 AD, the Burgundians were attacked by the Franks, their former allies, and their kingdom was annexed.
		The greatest of the Burgundian kings was Gundobad, who reigned from 473 to 517 AD, his greatest contribution being Burgundian law.
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	Burgundians biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The poet and early mythologist Victor Rydberg (1828–1895), (Our Fathers' Godsaga) asserted from an early medieval source, Vita Sigismundi, that the Burgundians themselves retained oral traditions about their Scandinavian origin, but the Vita is a much later source.
		It was a Hunnish custom for females to have their skull artificially elongated by tight binding of the skull when the child was an infant.
		The destruction of Worms and the Burgundian kingdom by the Huns became the subject of heroic legends that were afterwards incorporated in the Nibelungenlied—on which Richard Wagner based his Ring Cycle where King Gunther (Gundahar) and Queen Brünhild
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	Middle Ages - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Other outsiders, like Theodoric of the Ostrogoths, were civilized, though illiterate patrons, who saw themselves not unlike theodoric, a successor to the Roman tradition, employing cultured Roman ministers, like Cassiodorus.
		Like the Goths, many of the outsiders were foederati, military allies of the Empire, who had earned rights of settlement, including among others the Franks and the Burgundians.
		Between the 5th and 8th centuries a completely new political and social infrastructure developed across the lands of the former empire, based upon powerful regional noble families, and the newly established kingdoms of the Ostrogoths in Italy, Visigoths in Spain, Franks and Burgundians in Gaul and western Germany, and Saxons in England.
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	History of Franche Comte - The Burgundians
		The Burgundians, under their king Gebicca had crossed the Rhine with the Vandals in 406 and settled along the west bank, making their capital at Geneva in Switzerland.
		Under the agreement, the Burgundians divided the territory with the local aristocracy as such; two thirds of the land and a third of the serfs for the Burgundians, and a third of the land and two thirds of the serfs for the locals.
		The threat of Attila and his Huns led the Burgundians to another alliance with Aetius at the battle of Chalons in 451 at which Aetius, foederati, Romans and Visigoths drove Attila's Huns from the field.
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	Articles - Burgundians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As allies of Rome in its last decades, the Burgundians fought alongside AÃ«tius and a confederation of Visigoths and others in the final defeat of Attila at the Battle of Chalons (also called "The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields") in 451.
		The alliance between Burgundians and Visigoths seems to have been strong, as Gundioc and his brother Chilperic I accompanied Theodoric II to Spain to fight the Sueves in 455.
		442.) implicates an unnamed treacherous Burgundian leader in the murder of the emperor Petronius Maximus in the chaos preceding the sack of Rome by the Vandals.
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	4. The Burgundians. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The Burgundians, arriving from the Oder-Vistula region, moved along the Main athwart the Rhine, entered Gaul under King Gundicar, and finally settled as federates of the Roman Empire in upper Burgundy (i.e., the lands including Lyons, Vienne, Besançon, Geneva, Autun, Mâcon).
		The Burgundians were finally conquered by the sons of Clovis (c.
		532), but the Burgundian state remained separate under Frankish control with Merovingian princes until 613.
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	Burgundian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The second Burgundian kingdom was a loyal ally of the Romans, joining another usurper Emperor Avitus against the Suevi of Spain in 456 AD.
		With Theodoric now ruling Italy, the Burgundians and their expansionary neighbours the Franks were drawn into a complex series of marriage alliances with the Ostrogoths.
		One of his sons, Godomar, survived to rule what was left of the Burgundian kingdom but in 534 AD the Franks invaded for the last time, Godomar was defeated and the Burgundians were absorbed into the Frankish kingdom, later to form the semi-independent territory of Burgundy.
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	Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws: Book 28
		It appears by the preamble to that law that it was made for the Burgundians, and to regulate the disputes which might arise between them and the Romans; and in the latter case the judges were equally divided of a side.
		The Salic, Burgundian, and Visigoth laws were, therefore, extremely neglected at the end of the second race; and at the beginning of the third, they were scarcely ever mentioned.
		Now if several Burgundians, Alemans, or even Romans should happen to have frequent disputes, in a place where the Salic law was territorial, they must have been determined by the laws of those people; and a great number of decisions agreeable to some of those laws must have introduced new customs into the country.
	www.constitution.org /cm/sol_28.htm (17437 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Joan of Arc
		Moreover, they had a tool ready to their hand in Pierre Cauchon, the Bishop of Beauvais, an unscrupulous and ambitious man who was the creature of the Burgundian party.
		The English and Burgundians were furious, but Cauchon, it seems, placated them by saying, "We shall have her yet." Undoubtedly her position would now, in case of a relapse, be worse than before, for no second retractation could save her from the flames.
		Moreover, as one of the points upon which she had been condemned was the wearing of male apparel, a resumption of that attire would alone constitute a relapse into heresy, and this within a few days happened, owing, it was afterwards alleged, to a trap deliberately laid by her jailers with the connivance of Cauchon.
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	The Chronicles of Pepin le Bref - Chapter 8 - Fortress Burgundia: Part I
		This allowed the now forgotten company of Burgundian hand-gunners to exit the small woods and fall upon the flanks of some French knights as they were being assaulted and subsequently broken by their Burgundian opponents.
		Many Burgundians had deployed to meet the French at the bottom of the hill while most of the French were still in the hills, and the result was not pretty.
		The Burgundian ambush quickly dispatched a lone Ps(S) I had on the left flank of the spear line, and Bd(I) from the woods as well as those manning the fortifications were released for a frontal and flank attack on the spears, killing two and preparing to dismember the rest.
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	elden newsletters
		When talk in the tasting cellars comes round to the New Burgundians will tell you straight-faced that the quantum leap in quality is due to a new-found respect or the old 'traditional' methods, and that all of these high-tech New World wines, good as they may be, lack the authenticity that the French call 'terroir'.
		For one thing, if the Burgundians were really using 'traditional' techniques, no one would be buying Burgundies; and secondly, ironically, no other wine region has so adeptly assimilated 'modern' methods into the winemaking process as has Burgundy.
		In their lifetime, these same growers have seen many dramatic changes in the way Burgundy is produced, but the results of the latest generation's work may be the most exciting yet.
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	Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws: Book 30
		By the law of the Burgundians, it is ordained that the Burgundians shall have two-thirds of the lands, and one-third of the bondmen.
		The Burgundians as a martial people, fond of hunting and of a pastoral life, did not refuse to accept of the fallow grounds; while the Romans kept such lands as were properest for culture: the Burgundian's flock fattened the Roman's field.
		When the Franks, Burgundians, and Goths made their several invasions, they seized upon gold, silver, movables, clothes, men, women, boys, and whatever the army could carry; the whole was brought to one place, and divided among the army.
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	The Nibelungs
		It describes, first, the adventures of Siegfried, how he acquired the Nibelung treasure hoard and married Kriemhild, sister of Gunther, King of the Burgundians, only to be killed by the intransigent Hagen von Tronje.
		The Burgundians fight both mounted and on foot, hence the option to use them as Knights or Blades.
		She invites the Burgundians to his court and sets Etzel's warriors against them.
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	The Chronicles of Pepin le Bref - Chapter 9 - Fortress Burgundia: Part II
		Scouts came back with reports that the Burgundians were redeploying their battle on that side to form a defensive line, but in the darkness it was proceeding slowly.
		Behind the Burgundian lines other bowmen were redeploying to protect their flank in case the unseen French battle arrived on that side.
		The Burgundians had secured the flank approach with six bow companies and their commander-in-chief on the end of their left flank.
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	Montesquieu: Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Civil Laws among the French
		The laws of the Burgundians, and especially those of the Visigoths, admitted of corporal punishments; these were not tolerated by the Salic and Ripuarian laws;
		The Burgundians and Visigoths, whose provinces were greatly exposed, endeavoured to conciliate the affections of the ancient inhabitants, and to give them the most impartial civil laws;
		The laws of the Alemans, Bavarians, Thuringians, Frisians, Saxons, Lombards, and Burgundians were formed on the same plan as those of the Ripuarian.
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	Kingdoms of France - Burgundy
		The Burgundians, like the Franks, did not play a great role in undermining the Western Roman Empire.
		They crossed the Rhine with the Vandals in 406 and settled along the west bank, making their capital at Geneva.
		The continual fracturing of the Frankish Empire lead to an independent Burgundian kingdom, as the previous Burgundian territory was split in two, the second half forming a duchy.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/FranceBurgundy.htm (335 words)

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