ABSTRACT
However, if the first partition did not imperil the regnum, the fact is that the rivals of the Franks, the Goths of Spain and Italy, were not in a position to pursue an aggressive policy. In Gaul, the Bretons from Great Britain, who had been established in Armorica for nearly a century, were turbulent but not dangerous, and the weakness of the Bur gundians was patent. The warlike spirit of the Franks had not been broken nor had their appetite for booty and for conquest been satisfied by the death of the great man who had united them. The sons of Clotilda, revengeful and ambi tious, completed the destruction of the kingdom of Burgundy in two campaigns (523 and 534).
