The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire

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With Flemish Revolution, their Villagers turn into Flemish Militia, which function like Two-Handed Swordsman with a bonus to cavalry; the upgrade gives the Burgundians a massive power spike. It was abolished by Mary's Great Privilege of 1477, only to be reestablished by her son Philip the Handsome under the name of "Great Council of Mechelen". These migrations culminated in the Marcomannic Wars, which resulted in widespread destruction and the first invasion of Italy in the Roman Empire period. When Henry V and Charles VI both died within months of each other, leaving Henry's son Henry VI of England as heir to both England and France, Philip the Good and the Burgundians continued to support the English.

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This confined the Zähringer between Jura and Alps, where they used their regal powers to expand their possessions. Economic upgrades (except Coinage and Banking) cost -33% food and are available one Age earlier than other civilizations. A fringe theory suggests that the Burgundians may have been the Βουρουγουνδοι Bourougoundoi later alluded to by the Aeolian historian Agathias, as a component of Eurasian steppe peoples, namely the " Scythian or Huns" and, by implication, Turkic peoples like the Bulgars). The Treaty of Arras, signed on December 1482, planned to marry Mary and Maximilian's daughter, Margaret, to the Dauphin Charles, aged 12.Before clear documentary evidence begins, the Burgundians may have originally emigrated from the Baltic island of Bornholm to the Vistula basin, in the middle of what is now Poland. The Patrician Ricimer is also blamed; this event marks the first indication of the link between the Burgundians and Ricimer, who was probably Gundioc's brother-in-law and Gundobad's uncle.

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In 406 the Alans, Vandals, Suevi, and possibly the Burgundians, crossed the Rhine and invaded Roman Gaul.The Kingdom of the Burgundians ( Latin: Regnum Burgundionum) or First Kingdom of Burgundy ( Latin: Primum Regnum Burgundiae) was established by Germanic Burgundians in the Rhineland and then in eastern Gaul in the 5th century. These two peoples had moved into the Agri Decumates on the eastern side of the Rhine, an area still referred to today as Swabia, at times attacking Roman Gaul together and sometimes fighting each other. Gregory states that Gundobad murdered his brother Chilperic, drowning his wife and exiling their daughters (one of whom was to become the wife of Clovis the Frank, and was reputedly responsible for his conversion).