Burgundians

The Burgundians were a Germanic people of the Roman imperial era who established the powerful Kingdom of the Burgundians in what is now western Switzerland and southeastern France. This kingdom, which ended in 534 when it was incorporated into the Frankish empire, is the source of later names related to the region now known as Burgundy. Earlier, Roman sources reported Burgundians living in regions now within Germany and Poland. The kingdom's core group were non-Roman soldiers under the Gibichung dynasty, who had previously held a kingdom on the Rhine border, probably near Worms. This Rhine kingdom was destroyed in 436 by Romans and Huns, leading to the death of King Gundahar, a central theme in medieval Germanic legend.