Battle of Vézeronce

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The Battle of Vézeronce took place on June 25, 524 close to Vézeronce-Curtin (then Veseruntia) in Isère. It was part of the Burgundian War initiated by the four successors of the Frankish king Clovis I: Childebert I, Chlodomir, Clotaire I, and Theuderic I.

The Burgundian king Sigismund was defeated and he and his two sons were executed by order of Chlodomir. Chlodomir and Childebert then completed their conquest at Vézeronce by defeating Gundomar III and his allied Ostrogoths. Chlodomir, the leader of the Frankish army, was killed in battle.

Asides the cardinal defeat of the Burgundians, which reversed their fortunes permanently and assured the annexation of their kingdom to the Merovingians, the chief legacy of the battle within Francia was the division of Chlodomir's kingdom among his brothers and the dispossession of his heirs.

A helmet was found in the peat marsh of Saint-Didier, to the north of the battle site in 1871 and is currently with the Musée Dauphinois in Grenoble. The helmet is of Byzantine craftsmanship and was probably that of a Frankish chieftain.