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Sentence Examples The Roman Army had been fighting in Gaul and the Britons had been helping the Gauls in an effort to defeat the Romans. He would remain proconsul over Italy, Spain, Gaul and Syria, but the Senate would take up responsibility for the rest of the provinces. On January 27, 1974 the Gaul left Hull for the fishing grounds in the North Cape area. As the Roman empire disintegrated, Gaul ceased to be a Roman province and was overrun by Germanic invaders. By early March their advanced guard had crossed the Alps, and an Othonian expedition to southern Gaul achieved little. Addressing the throngs of media gathered outside the courthouse, Crown spokesman Geoff Gaul said there was nothing unusual about the proceedings. Pepin united Gaul under his rule, for under the later Merovingians large sections had become largely independent. Some had experience of Frankish Gaul and hence some acquaintance with Roman institutions and culture. However, the mighty Caesar had just crossed the borderline between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul known as the Rubincan River. When the Vandals launched a massive invasion of Gaul in 406, decades of fighting ensued, overstretching the Roman defences. England had also been part of the Roman empire, but here Roman culture had been less firmly implanted than in Gaul or Spain. Rome's enemies had built wooden stockades and fortified villages well before Caesar and his legions set foot in Gaul or Britain. Plans were made for a second campaign but renewed hostilities in Gaul delayed action until the following year. The Celts of Gaul and Britain spoke what was called P-Celtic, this would be the ancestor of the Welsh and Breton form of Celtic. In 429 Bishops Germanus and Lupus were sent from Gaul to Britain to preach against Pelagianism. When I started as governor, Gaul tribes had begun a dangerous practice of requesting German help with their intertribal conflicts. This advance also served to drive a wedge between the Germans and Central Gaul. He claimed that the former inhabitants of Britain were Celts or Gauls on the basis of similarity in ancient place-names in Gaul and Britain. Samian ware was a type of highly-regarded pottery made in Gaul. In Britain and Gaul, however, malted barley was indeed required for the manufacture of beer, a local speciality for which there was a steady demand in legionary camps. Show More Sentences He then received a pass from Gaul and belted a ball towards an apparently barren goal only to see Christy Kealy appear to divert it out the field. Unlike missionaries from Italy and Gaul they came from a tribal, warrior society not unlike that of the English, non-urban and economically undeveloped. Eventually the Visigoths, after a brief period of fighting for the Romans in Spain, were established in south-west Gaul in 418 by the praetorian prefect. They actually put together financial products based on the models developed by the quants, and Gaul was one of them. Aegidius also acknowledged Majorian and took effective charge of northern Gaul. The northern pirates were now swarming on every sea, and the coasts of Britain, Gaul, and Germany were all alike desolated by their harryings. A brisk and regular trade began between ports in Roman Gaul and those in Britain. Even the Comes of the Saxon Shore did not join forces with Constantine's campaign to Gaul. It is clear that some British people migrated to Europe, and Armorica in northwest Gaul became known as Brittany. While Britain certainly was Romanized, its approximation to the Roman culture seems to have been smaller than that of Gaul. The Berne zinc tablet is a votive plaque dating to Roman Gaul made of an alloy that is mostly zinc. Gildas studied literature as a youth, before leaving his homeland for Gaul, where he studied for seven years. In the view of some historians, his death marked the end of direct imperial presence in Northern Gaul and Britain. He went to Gaul to pursue his imperial ambitions, taking a large portion of the British garrison troops with him. Following his landing in Gaul, Maximus went out to meet his main opponent, emperor Gratian, whom he defeated near Paris. Meanwhile, the Franks under Marcomer had taken the opportunity to invade northern Gaul, at the same time further weakening Maximus' position. Five years into his kingship, Magnus Maximus assembled a vast fleet and invaded Gaul, leaving Britain in the control of Caradocus. In gratitude to his British allies, Macsen rewards them with a portion of Gaul that becomes known as Brittany. The English Gaul is from French Gaule and is unrelated to Latin Gallia, despite superficial similarity. Julius Caesar was checked by Vercingetorix at a siege of Gergovia, a fortified town in the center of Gaul. Show More Sentences The formerly Romanized north of Gaul, once it had been occupied by the Franks, would develop into Merovingian culture instead. Roman silver Denarius with the head of captive Gaul 48 BC, following the campaigns of Julius Caesar. Constantine III initially rebelled against Honorius and took further troops to Gaul, but was later recognised as a joint emperor. Traders came from Gaul and the Mediterranean localities to seek minerals from North Wales and Cheshire. The borders of modern France are roughly the same as those of ancient Gaul, which was inhabited by Celtic Gauls. From the 250s to the 280s AD, Roman Gaul suffered a serious crisis with its fortified borders being attacked on several occasions by barbarians. Nevertheless, the situation improved in the first half of the 4th century, which was a period of revival and prosperity for Roman Gaul. Caesar had four legions under his command, two of his provinces bordered on unconquered territory, and parts of Gaul were known to be unstable. However, poor harvests led to widespread revolt in Gaul, which forced Caesar to leave Britain for the last time. Despite scattered outbreaks of warfare the following year, Gaul was effectively conquered. During ancient times some Franks raided Roman territory, while other Frankish tribes joined the Roman troops of Gaul. Throughout Gaul, the descendants of Roman soldiers continued to wear their uniforms and perform their ceremonial duties. Initially only in certain cities in western Gaul, in Neustria and Aquitaine, did the kings possess the right or power to call up the levy. Soon the local levy spread to Austrasia and the less Romanised regions of Gaul. The major part of the Gaul army was exterminated in the process and the Gauls that did survive were forced to flee from Greece. The Gaul leader Brennus was heavily injured at Delphi and committed suicide there. Modern archeology strongly suggests that the countries of Gaul were quite civilized and very wealthy. According to Julius Caesar in his Commentaries on the Gallic War, it was one of three languages in Gaul, the others being Aquitanian and Belgic. The beginning of French in Gaul was greatly influenced by Germanic invasions into the country. Irenaeus of Lyons was bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, which is now Lyons, France. Show More Sentences Maximus was recognized as emperor of Britain, Gaul and Spain, and made Trier his residence. The heresy, notwithstanding the severe measures taken against it, continued to spread in Gaul as well as in Hispania. They were discussed in depth by Julius Caesar in his account of his wars in Gaul. The fact that the Belgae were living in Gaul means that in one sense they were Gauls. In January of the same year, an uprising occurred in Gaul and Germany, known as the second Batavian Rebellion. Sabinus, claiming he was descended from Julius Caesar, declared himself Emperor of Gaul. Large villas dominated the rural economy of the Po Valley, Campania, and Sicily, and also operated in Gaul. Initially made in factories in Northern Italy and Southern Gaul between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, they were exported to all Roman provinces. The aristocracy was more thoroughly powerful politically if not economically in Italy than in contemporary Gaul and Spain. It was administered by a consularis and formed part of the Diocese of Gaul. His accounts of barbaric northern tribes could be described as an expression of the superiority of Rome, including Roman Gaul. He traveled in Greece, Hispania, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia, Gaul, Liguria, North Africa, and on the eastern shores of the Adriatic. At other times, Caesar more clearly divides Belgic Gaul into the Belgae and another smaller group called the Germani. Some of the Germani who Caesar mentions did stay in Gaul under its new Roman overlords. Julius Caesar considered the Nervii to be the most warlike of the Belgic tribes, and that the Belgic tribes were the bravest in Gaul. Defeated, the Cimbri returned to Gaul, where they joined their allies, the Teutons. This does not rule out Cimbric Gallicization during the period when they lived in Gaul. The Teutones and Cimbri were recorded as passing west through Gaul before attacking Roman Italy. Caesar personally remained in Gaul for the remainder of winter due to the renewed Gallic threat. Later inscriptions dating to Roman Gaul are mostly in the Latin alphabet and have been found principally in central France. Show More Sentences Caepio was prorogued into the next year, when one of the new consuls, Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, also operated in southern Gaul. The Cimbri conveniently marched into Hispania and the Teutoni milled around in northern Gaul, leaving Marius to prepare his army. In 102 BC the Cimbri returned from Hispania into Gaul and together with the Teutones decided to invade Italy. Finally, in the summer of that year a battle was fought at Vercellae in Cisalpine Gaul. When the Vandals raided Sicily in 440, the Western Roman Empire was too preoccupied with war with Gaul to react. In 456 a Vandal fleet of 60 ships threatening both Gaul and Italy was ambushed and defeated in Corsica by the Western Roman general Ricimer. In the late 3rd century, the Burgundians appear on the east bank of the Rhine, confronting Roman Gaul. A portion of the western Alans joined the Vandals and the Suebi in their invasion of Roman Gaul. Eventually, the Franks who had settled more to the south of this area in northern Gaul started adopting the Vulgar Latin of the local population. The most commonly chosen province for the proconsulship was Cisalpine Gaul. Italy was now open to invasion, yet for some reason, the Cimbri and their allies moved west over the Alps and into Gaul. In 101 BC, the Cimbri returned to Gaul and prepared for the final stage of their struggle with Rome. In chapter 13 he mentions the importance of Druids in the culture and social structure of Gaul at the time of his conquest. Caesar spent a great amount of time in Gaul and is one of the best preserved accounts of the Druids from an author who was in Gaul. It is likely that Ariovistus's authority extended only over those Germans who had settled in Gaul. Moreover, the senate, he said, had determined that Gaul should be governed by its own laws and so ought to be free. Ariovistus was probably picked from among the generals to lead an army group into Gaul, as seers were generally used for that purpose. It remains therefore unclear where exactly the Central European origins of the Boii lay, if somewhere in Gaul, Southern Germany or in Bohemia. In 105 BC, the allies defeated another Roman army near Arausio, and went on to harry Spain, Gaul, Noricum, and northern Italy. Decimus Brutus refused to give up Cisalpine Gaul, so Antony besieged him at Mutina. Show More Sentences The civil war of 69 had severely destabilized the provinces, leading to several local uprisings such as the Batavian revolt in Gaul. As early as 82, or possibly 83, he went to Gaul, ostensibly to conduct a census, and suddenly ordered an attack on the Chatti. Ammianus served as a soldier in the army of Constantius II and Julian in Gaul and Persia. Silvanus had been forced by the allegedly false accusations of his enemies into proclaiming himself emperor in Gaul. Valens would bring more troops from Syria and Gratian would bring more troops from Gaul. Theoderic exiled Odoacer's son Thela to Gaul, but when he attempted to return to Italy Theoderic had him killed. The conquest of Gaul made Caesar immensely powerful and popular, which led to a second civil war against the Senate and Pompey. By the end of his life, Clovis ruled all of Gaul save the Gothic province of Septimania and the Burgundian kingdom in the southeast. Clovis's sons made their capitals near the Frankish heartland in northeastern Gaul. The eldest son, Charibert I, inherited the kingdom with its capital at Paris and ruled all of western Gaul. The most dramatic change in medieval Gaul was the collapse of trade and town life. A Carolingian denarius replaced the Merovingian one, and the Frisian penning, in Gaul from 755 to the eleventh century. Upon Clovis's death in 511, the Merovingian kingdom included all of Gaul except Burgundy and all of Germania magna except Saxony. The further south in Gaul one traveled, the weaker the Frankish influence became. While it may or may not have been his intention, this division was the cause of much internal discord in Gaul. Aquitaine under Rome had been in southern Gaul, Romanised and speaking a Romance language. Ariovistus had become involved in an invasion of Gaul, which the German wished to settle. The Franks were a Germanic tribe that overran Roman Gaul at the end of the Roman Empire. The Franks were Germanic pagans who began to settle in northern Gaul as laeti, already during the Roman era. Many colonies were established by the Romans in the former Gallic territory of Cisalpine Gaul, which was then settled by Roman and Italic people. Show More Sentences As Roman power in Gaul declined during the 5th century, local Germanic tribes assumed control. During the Crisis of the Third Century, from 260 to 274, Gaul was subject to Alamanni raids because of the civil war. After his consulship, Caesar gained control of the provinces of Illyricum and Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul. From 590 onwards, Irish missionaries were active in Gaul, Scotland, Wales and England. In 451, Attila's forces entered Gaul, accumulating contingents from the Franks, Goths and Burgundian tribes en route. An Illyrian revolt was put down with energy, and the Romans sped up the construction of a number of fortresses in Cisalpine Gaul. The Lingones were a Celtic tribe that originally lived in Gaul in the area of the headwaters of the Seine and Marne rivers. Meanwhile, Celtic culture and influence in Gaul began to wane during the first century BC as a result. An example of such prominence shows in the fact that in AD 350 the Frankish general Silvanus was the high military commander of Gaul. In that year, the two major powers in western Europe were the Franks in Gaul and the Lombards in Italy. Some Saxons already lived along the Saxon shore of Gaul as Roman foederati. After Caesar's conquest of Gaul, a thriving trade developed between Southeast Britain and the near Continent. The latter, writing in the early 1st century AD, deals with Britain and Gaul as well as Hispania, Italy and Galatia. In later Iron Age Gaul, the social organisation resembled that of the Romans, with large towns. He then became involved in fighting the various tribes in Gaul, and by 55 BC had overrun most of Gaul. Under Caesar the Romans conquered Celtic Gaul, and from Claudius onward the Roman empire absorbed parts of Britain. For instance, the Irish god Lugh, associated with storms, lightning, and culture, is seen in similar forms as Lugos in Gaul and Lleu in Wales. The Roman invasion of Gaul brought a great deal of Celtic peoples into the Roman Empire. Tacitus' Agricola noted that the language of Britain differed little from that of Gaul. Fearing the worst, the Romans began a major mobilization, all but pulling out of recently pacified Spain and Gaul. Show More Sentences Caesar then defeated a union of Gauls at the Battle of Alesia, completing the Roman conquest of Transalpine Gaul. Caesar would be elected consul in 59 BC, and would then serve as governor of Gaul for five years. Caesar was eager to return to Gaul for the winter due to growing unrest there, and an agreement was mediated by Commius. He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul, the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy. He received tribute, installed a friendly king over the Trinovantes, and returned to Gaul. Hostages were taken, but historians disagree over whether any tribute was paid after Caesar returned to Gaul. Albinus crossed to Gaul in 195, where the provinces were also sympathetic to him, and set up at Lugdunum. He consolidated control over all the provinces of Britain and some of northern Gaul while Maximian dealt with other uprisings. Modified versions of Roman garden designs were adopted in Roman settlements in Africa, Gaul, and Britannia. Severus defeated Albinus three years later at the Battle of Lugdunum in Gaul. In 288, Maximian appointed Constantius to serve as his praetorian prefect in Gaul. On 1 March, Constantius was promoted to the office of Caesar, and dispatched to Gaul to fight the rebels Carausius and Allectus. Maximian had been sent south to Arles with a contingent of Constantine's army, in preparation for any attacks by Maxentius in southern Gaul. He may also have intended to give Alaric a senior official position and send him against the rebels in Gaul. Boniface was promoted to magister militum and earned the enmity of Aetius, who may have been absent in Gaul at the time. Aetius campaigned vigorously, somewhat stabilizing the situation in Gaul and in Hispania. Additionally, in northern Gaul, a British army led by one Riothamus, operated in imperial interests. Anthemius sent his son over the Alps, with an army, to request that the Visigoths return southern Gaul to Roman control. Although the evidence for contacts with Gaul is clear, the borrowings from Latin into Old Irish show that links with Roman Britain were many. Constantine III became ruler, but he then left for Gaul and withdrew more troops. Show More Sentences This was especially marked in the lands that did not lie on the Mediterranean, such as northern Gaul or Britain. Alexander waged war against many foes, like the revitalized Persia and German peoples who invaded Gaul. In that same year the Gallic Empire was created by Postumus, retaining Britain and Gaul. Caesar wrote his own histories to make a complete account of his military campaigns in Gaul and during the Civil War. Wilfrid chose to be consecrated in Gaul because of the lack of what he considered to be validly consecrated bishops in England at that time. While in Gaul, Wilfrid absorbed Frankish ecclesiastical practices, including some aspects from the monasteries founded by Columbanus. Wilfrid would also have learned of the Rule of Saint Benedict in Gaul, as Columbanus' monasteries followed that monastic rule. Wilfrid delayed his return from Gaul, only to find on his arrival back in Northumbria that Ceadda had been installed as bishop in his place. They suggest that the rebellion happened shortly after Whitby, perhaps while Wilfrid was in Gaul for his consecration. He made many contacts and friends, not only in Northumbria and the other English kingdoms, but also in Gaul, Frisia, and Italy. Geoffrey depicted Arthur as a king of Britain who defeated the Saxons and established an empire over Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and Gaul. After twelve years of peace, Arthur sets out to expand his empire once more, taking control of Norway, Denmark and Gaul. After Leir has had all his attendants taken from him, he begins to regret his actions towards Cordelia and travels to Gaul. After his conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar looks over the sea and resolves to order Britain to swear obedience and pay tribute to Rome. Caesar sails a fleet to Britain, but he is overwhelmed by Cassivellaunus's army and forced to retreat to Gaul. Cassivellaunus pays tribute and makes peace with Caesar, who then returns to Gaul. Arthur defeats Lucius in Gaul, but in his absence, his nephew Mordred seduces and marries Guinevere and seizes the throne. During the Merovingian period, Frankish had significant influence on the Romance languages spoken in Gaul. Aqueducts were built to bring water to urban centers and wine and oil were imported from Hispania, Gaul and Africa. When Julius Caesar invaded Gaul, there were nine different Celtic tribes living in Normandy. Show More Sentences After Caesar's conquest of Gaul in the 50s BC, some Belgic people seem to have come to central southern Britain from the continent. The Umayyad dynasty conquered the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Narbonnese Gaul and Sindh. A bronze bear from Gaul was placed inside, along with an equestrian statue from Ravenna, believed to be Theodric. Slaves were drawn from all over Europe and the Mediterranean, including Gaul, Hispania, Germany, Britannia, the Balkans, Greece. The major suppliers for the city of Rome were the west coast of Italy, southern Gaul, the Tarraconensis region of Hispania, and Crete. In Gaul, the power of the druids was checked, first by forbidding Roman citizens to belong to the order, and then by banning druidism altogether. When Julius Caesar broke this rule, leaving his province of Gaul and crossing the Rubicon into Italy, he precipitated a constitutional crisis. When he became governor of Cisalpine Gaul in 58 BC, Julius Caesar inherited four legions, numbered VII to X, that were already based there. For his subsequent campaign in Gaul, Maximus drew on a large number of garrison units stationed on the northern border. Welsh historical sources report that Maximus reorganized the defence of Britannia before departing for Gaul. While the Germans of Gaul, Italy, and Spain became Romans, the Saxons retained their language, their genius, and manners, and created in Britain a Germany outside of Germany. The Visigothic Kingdom was a Western European power in the 5th to 7th centuries, created in Gaul when the Romans lost their control of the western half of their empire. His argument was largely based on Caesar's description of his campaigns in Gaul, modern France, where he described three native groups, the Belgae, Aquitani and Celtoi. Most of Gaul was under Merovingian control as was part of Italy and their overlordship extended into Germany where they reigned over the Thuringians, Alamans, and Bavarians. But the theme of all these cultural references was that this was a wild and dangerous region, less civilised than Gaul, a place that required additional military vigilance. This belief stems from the fact that the Celts who had occupied Gaul prior to the Roman invasion were famous for their skill in oratory, and had been subjugated by Rome. In 572, they raided southeastern Gaul as far as Stablo, now Estoublon. Villas were centers of a variety of economic activity such as mining, pottery factories, or horse raising such as those found in northwestern Gaul. A change that might been hastened by the Roman conquest of Northern Gaul. During the Gallic Wars of 58 to 51 BCE, the Roman army, led by Julius Caesar, conquered the many tribal chiefdoms of Gaul, and annexed it as a part of the Roman Empire. Show More Sentences Lombard society was divided into classes comparable to those found in the other Germanic successor states of Rome, Frankish Gaul and Visigothic Spain. According to accounts produced in the following centuries, the new rulers of Roman Gaul subsequently introduced measures to wipe out the druids from that country. Their territory largely corresponded to ancient Gaul as well as the Roman provinces of Raetia, Germania Superior and the southern part of Germania. There was also considerable cultural influence exerted by Gaul on Rome, particularly in military matters and horsemanship, as the Gauls often served in the Roman cavalry. Later, Julius Caesar wrote about warlike Germanic tribesmen and their threat to Roman Gaul, and there were military clashes between the Romans and the indigenous tribes. He said that the Gauls, although warlike, could be civilized, but the Germanic tribesmen were far more savage and were a threat to Roman Gaul and so had to be conquered. Other changes included the adaptation of the Jupiter Column, a sacred column set up in many Celtic regions of the empire, primarily in northern and eastern Gaul. The sequence of events given by Caesar also seems to indicate that, when his governorship began in 58 BC, the Germans had been settled in Gaul for longer than one year. Segestes repeatedly warned Publius Quinctilius Varus, the governor of Gaul, that rebellion was being planned, but Varus declined to act until the rebellion had broken out. The Roman proconsul and general Julius Caesar pushed his army into Gaul in 58 BC, on the pretext of assisting Rome's Gaullish allies against the migrating Helvetii. This prevented Arminius from crossing the Rhine and invading Gaul. From the third to 5th centuries, Gaul was exposed to raids by the Franks. Caesar wrote to Cicero on 26 September, confirming the result of the campaign, with hostages but no booty taken, and that his army was about to return to Gaul. His son, Mandubracius, fled to the protection of Caesar in Gaul. After the invasion of Gaul by several barbarian tribes in 406, contact was broken between Britain and the Western Roman central government in Ravenna. The constant raids on the local coasts hindered maritime traffic and in particular the safe transportation of goods and precious metals to Gaul and Rome. Late in the 2nd century BCE, Roman sources recount the migrating Germanic people of Gaul, Italy and Hispania who invaded areas considered part of Imperial Rome. The Druids were not the only political force in Gaul, however, and the early political system was complex, if ultimately fatal to the society as a whole. Among the Aedui, a clan of Gaul, the executive held the title of Vergobret, a position much like a king, but his powers were held in check by rules laid down by the council. All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third. Show More Sentences Gregory was born in Clermont, in the Auvergne region of central Gaul. Alarmed by this disaster and by the fury of the province which he had goaded into war by his rapacity, the procurator Catus crossed over into Gaul. There is no certainty concerning the origin of the druids, but it is clear that they vehemently guarded the secrets of their order and held sway over the people of Gaul. They also practiced a form of excommunication from the assembly of worshippers, which in ancient Gaul meant a separation from secular society as well. While of the other tribes who had come to Italy along with the Boii, the Senones, Lingones and Cenomani are also attested in Gaul at the time of the Roman conquest. The legacy of Clovis's conquests, a Frankish kingdom that included most of Roman Gaul and parts of western Germany, survived long after his death. Constantine's share of the Empire consisted of Britain, Gaul, and Spain. The Cimbri were initially successful, particularly at the Battle of Arausio, in which a large Roman army was routed, after which they raided large areas in Gaul and Hispania. While Constantine toured Britain and Gaul, Maxentius prepared for war. In Gaul, which did not really recover from the invasions of the third century, there was widespread insecurity and economic decline in the 300s, perhaps worst in Armorica. Julianus won victories against Germans who had invaded Gaul. To compensate the Western court for the loss of Gaul, Hispania, and Britannia, Theodosius ceded the diocese of Dacia and the diocese of Macedonia to their control. Now the road to Italy was open, but they turned west towards Gaul. The last, Constantine III, raised an army from the remaining troops in Britannia, invaded Gaul and defeated forces loyal to Honorius led by Sarus. The Latin brought by Roman soldiers to Gaul, Iberia, or Dacia was not identical to the Latin of Cicero, and differed from it in vocabulary, syntax, and grammar. The Germanic Franks adopted Romanic languages, except in northern Gaul where Roman settlements were less dense and where Germanic languages emerged. Faced with refusal, he invaded Gaul in 451 with a huge army. Marcellinus in Dalmatia, and Aegidius around Soissons in northern Gaul, rejected both Ricimer and his puppets and maintained some version of Roman rule in their areas. These tribes who had crossed the Rhine in early 407 and ravaged Gaul. At that time, it formed the boundary between Gaul and Germania. Show More Sentences The Visigoths refused, defeated the forces of both Riothamus and Anthemius, and with the Burgundians took over almost all of the remaining imperial territory in southern Gaul. Gundobad had already left to contest the Burgundian throne in Gaul and Glycerius gave up without a fight, retiring to become bishop of Salona in Dalmatia. In 383, the Roman general then assigned to Britain, Magnus Maximus, launched his successful bid for imperial power, crossing to Gaul with his troops. Part of his military forces were in Spain, making them unavailable for action in Gaul, and some of those in Gaul were swayed against him by loyalist Roman generals. The Germans living west of the Rhine River rose against him, perhaps encouraged by Roman loyalists, and those living east of the river crossed into Gaul. Britain, now without any troops for protection and having suffered particularly severe Saxon raids in 408 and 409, viewed the situation in Gaul with renewed alarm. Gregory's hagiographies are also an invaluable source of anecdotes and stories which enrich our understanding of life and belief in Merovingian Gaul. His intelligence information was poor, and although he gained a beachhead on the coast, he could not advance further, and returned to Gaul for the winter. Cemeteries at Alfriston, Highdown and Eastbourne show continuous contacts with Gaul from the first half of the 5th century until the early 7th century. Elsewhere in Gaul, the Franks and Celtic Britons set up small polities. These ties led to the prevalence of the feud in aristocratic society, examples of which included those related by Gregory of Tours that took place in Merovingian Gaul. Women took part in aristocratic society mainly in their roles as wives and mothers of men, with the role of mother of a ruler being especially prominent in Merovingian Gaul. The large duchy in southwest Gaul was nominally under Frankish sovereignty, but in fact was almost independent under Odo the Great, Duke of Aquitaine. Nevertheless, several important wars were fought in Gaul, against the Chatti, and across the Danube frontier against the Suebi, the Sarmatians, and the Dacians. When Caesar returned to Rome, the Senate granted him triumphs for his victories, ostensibly those over Gaul, Egypt, Pharnaces, and Juba, rather than over his Roman opponents. On the beaches of northern Gaul Plautius faced a mutiny by his troops, who were reluctant to cross the Ocean and fight beyond the limits of the known world. In 595 Gregory wrote to one of the papal estate managers in southern Gaul, asking that he buy English slave boys in order that they might be educated in monasteries. A similar development was witnessed in Spain, Gaul, and Italy. Bede is silent on the subject of Wilfrid's monastic status, although Wilfrid probably became a monk during his time in Rome, or afterwards while he was in Gaul. Information about the imperial divisions of Gaul probably derives from it. Show More Sentences The kingdom of Tournai eventually came to dominate its neighbours, probably because of its association with Aegidius, the magister militum of northern Gaul. After the Roman administration collapsed in Gaul in the 260s, the armies under the Germanic Batavian Postumus revolted and proclaimed him emperor and then restored order. Before their conquest of Gaul, the Franks fought primarily as a tribe, unless they were part of a Roman military unit fighting in conjunction with other imperial units. During the middle 670s Wilfrid acted as middleman in the negotiations to return a Merovingian prince, Dagobert II, from his exile in Ireland to Gaul. The way was open to the sack of Trier and the invasion of Gaul. As a result, Germanic tribes and other nomadic peoples launched raids south and west across Rome's northern border, particularly into Gaul and across the Danube. Caesar says that the Belgae were separated from the rest of Gaul by language, law and custom, and he also says they had Germanic ancestry, but he does not go into detail. Cordelia marries Aganippus, King of the Franks, and departs for Gaul. Following the climate deterioration in the late Nordic Bronze Age, Celtic Gaul was invaded in the 5th century BC by tribes later called Gauls originating in the Rhine valley. On their journey they were joined by many supporters from Gaul. A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance who is usually very strong and with blue eyes. After the Roman conquest of Cisalpine Gaul and the widespread confiscations of Gallic territory, much of the Gaulish population was killed or expelled. Although the tribes were moderately stable political entities, Gaul as a whole tended to be politically divided, there being virtually no unity among the various tribes. Gaulish or Gallic is the name given to the Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul before the Latin of the late Roman Empire became dominant in Roman Gaul. As a proxy for his father, Romulus made no decisions and left no monuments, though coins bearing his name were minted in Rome, Milan, Ravenna, and Gaul. There is no certainty concerning their origin, but it is clear that they vehemently guarded the secrets of their order and held sway over the people of Gaul. However, while in Gaul Roman influence was sufficient to almost wholly replace the Gaulish language with Vulgar Latin, this was nowhere near the case in Roman Britain. No Pictish counterparts to the areas of denser settlement around important fortresses in Gaul and southern Britain, or any other significant urban settlements, are known. After completing the conquest of Gaul, Rome converted most of these tribes into civitates, making for the administrative map of the Roman provinces of Gaul. The Ostrogothic king Theodoric stepped in as the guardian of his grandson Amalaric, and preserved for him all his Iberian and a fragment of his Gaul dominion. Show More Sentences By the 490s, Clovis I had conquered and united all these territories in the southern Netherlands in one Frankish kingdom, and from there continued his conquests into Gaul. Lhuyd theorised that the root language descended from the languages spoken by the Iron Age tribes of Gaul, whom Greek and Roman writers called Celtic. According to Gregory, another group of Alans, led by Goar, crossed the Rhine at the same time, but immediately joined the Romans and settled in Gaul. After the 5th century, however, the Alans of Gaul were subsumed in the territorial struggles between the Franks and the Visigoths, and ceased to have an independent existence. Caesar used the term Germani for a very specific tribal grouping in northeastern Belgic Gaul, west of the Rhine, the largest part of whom were the Eburones. Priscillianism continued in the north of Hispania and the south of Gaul. From Caesar's perspective, Germania was a geographical area of land on the east bank of the Rhine opposite Gaul, which Caesar left outside direct Roman control. Gaul was then a prosperous country, of which the southernmost part was heavily subject to Greek and Roman cultural and economic influences. Gaul and the provinces of Hispania and Italia were placed in the hands of Octavian. The hills here, and indeed all the heathy grounds in general, abound with the sweet-smelling plant which the Highlanders call gaul, and with dwarf juniper in many places. Examples from Classical Literature Normandy formed one of the four ancient provinces of transalpine Gaul known to their founder, Augustus, as lyonnaise. Escanes wants a cook who can fry a capon in a special way they wot of in Gaul. The part next to Gaul is wetter, and that next to Pannonia and Noricum higher and more windy. It was the mission of Rome to make the Gaul the partaker of her tongue and culture. Lugdunensian Gaul belonged to the imperial provinces, and therefore possessed a propraetor and a larger garrison. In 103 they marched back through Gaul, which they overran as far as the Seine, where the Belgae made a stout resistance. And in Gaul there flow numerous rivers, among which are the Rhone and the Rhine. Probably they were relics left there by the Alani in their wanderings through Gaul. Boii, an ancient people of Gaul, occupying territory between the Allier and the Loire. Scarcely was she mistress of cisalpine Gaul when she entered upon a quarrel with the tribes which occupied the mountain-passes. Find more words! 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