burgundians
appearance: c. 100
differentiation:
ascendancy: north-east germans[1]
the scandinavian ancestry of the burgundians can be seen by topography, there being several places in norway and sweden that have retained their name. however, they appear to have entered poland with the goths and the vandals some time before 100. by 260, they were working with the alamannians, settling early along the german-roman buffer zone and were swept over the rhine with the crossing of 406. they set up a kingdom around worms but it was absolutely devastated in 436 by the huns who killed thousands of burgundians under an alliance with the gallo-romans under aetius. the story is told in the nibelunglied.
anyways, here is the royal family, beginning with the famous king gundicaire who was destroyed by the huns:
gundicaire I
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gundioc I
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chilperic II
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gundobad
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*chlotilde I
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sigismund
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descendancy: gundicaire [2]
[1]: the role of migration in the history of the eurasian steppe, andrew bell-fialkoff, 2000
[2]: the germanic invasions, lucien musset, 1965
page last updated august 23, 2004