Kingdom of Soissons

The Kingdom of Soissons (461-486 CE), also known as the ‘Kingdom of the Romans’, was an area of Gaul between the river Somme and the Seine.
Its Rulers, Aegidius, then his son Syagrius, managed to resist the Germanic Invasions after the the Fall of the Western Empire in 476 CE. They ruled the Kingdom from their capital at Soissons until 486 CE.

In 457 CE, Majorian (457-461 CE) was appointed Roman Emperor of the West by Ricimer, the Magister Militum of the Western Empire, as he was unable to rule himself being a Barbarian.
In 458 CE Majorian appointed Aegidius as Magister Militum of the Provinces in Gaul.
When Majorian was executed by Ricimer in 461 CE he replaced him with Severus III.
In 461 CE Aegidius refused to accept him as Emperor and repeatedly indicated his intention to invade Italia and replace him. He broke away from the Western Empire and ruled the Kingdom of Soissons as an independent State.
By 462 CE the Visigoths had invaded Gaul and replaced Gallia Narbonensis with the State of Septimania. The Burgundians had equally cut off eastern Gaul with a State of their own.
The Kingdom of Soissons was now a Roman Province cut off from Rome and so operated as an independent Roman Kingdom led by Aegidius.
Aegidius was possibly allied with the Franks under Childeric I.
In 463 CE, Aegidius defeated an invasion by the Visigoths at the Battle of Orleans.

Aegidius died in 464/5 CE and was succeeded by his son Syagrius.
Syagrius was possibly allied with the Franks under Childeric I until 481 CE, when he was succeeded by his son Clovis I,
In 486 CE, Clovis I defeated Syagrius at the Battle of Soissons, and Kingdom of Soissons finally fell to the Franks.

Soissons, France