» Syagrius (430 – 486 or 487) was the son of Aegidius, the last Roman magister militum per Gallias. Syagrius preserved his father's rump state between the Somme and the Loire around Soissons after the collapse of central rule in the Western Empire, the so-called "Kingdom" of Syagrius, as Gregory of Tours understood it, applying the Frankish term for an independent leader, rather than a Roman term, or merely dux of the Gallo-Romans. Syagrius governed this Gallo-Roman enclave from the deat… (More on Syagrius)