Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Sigismund of Burgundy

Index Sigismund of Burgundy

Sigismund (𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌷, Sigismunþ; Sigismundus; died 524 AD) was King of the Burgundians from 516 to his death. [1]

43 relations: Agaunum, Apollinaris of Valence, Arianism, Avitus of Vienne, Battle of Vézeronce, Buda, Burgundians, Canonization, Canton of Valais, Catholic Church, Chalcedonian Christianity, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Childebert I, Chilperic II of Burgundy, Chlodomer, Chlothar I, Clotilde, Clovis I, Coulmiers, Czech Republic, Eastern Orthodox Church, Francia, Franks, Godomar, Gregory of Tours, Gundobad, Hussites, Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom of the Burgundians, List of kings of Burgundy, Orléans, Ostrogoths, Patron saint, Piero della Francesca, Prague, Relic, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienne, Saint Maurice, Sardinia, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Statues of Saints Norbert, Wenceslaus and Sigismund, Theoderic the Great, Theuderic I.

Agaunum

Roman Agaunum, the modern Saint-Maurice in the canton Valais in southwesternmost Switzerland, was a minor post confined between the Rhône and the mountains along the well-travelled road that led from Roman Genava, modern Geneva, over the Alps by the Great St. Bernard Pass to Italy.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Agaunum · See more »

Apollinaris of Valence

Saint Apollinaris of Valence (also known as Aplonay) (453–520), born in Vienne, France, was bishop of Valence, France, at the time of the irruption of the barbarians.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Apollinaris of Valence · See more »

Arianism

Arianism is a nontrinitarian Christological doctrine which asserts the belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who was begotten by God the Father at a point in time, a creature distinct from the Father and is therefore subordinate to him, but the Son is also God (i.e. God the Son).

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Arianism · See more »

Avitus of Vienne

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus (c. 470 – February 5, 517 or 519) was a Latin poet and bishop of Vienne in Gaul.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Avitus of Vienne · See more »

Battle of Vézeronce

The Battle of Vézeronce took place on June 25, 524 near Vézeronce-Curtin (then Veseruntia) in Isère, France.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Battle of Vézeronce · See more »

Buda

Buda was the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Hungary and since 1873 has been the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest, on the west bank of the Danube.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Buda · See more »

Burgundians

The Burgundians (Burgundiōnes, Burgundī; Burgundar; Burgendas; Βούργουνδοι) were a large East Germanic or Vandal tribe, or group of tribes, who lived in the area of modern Poland in the time of the Roman Empire.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Burgundians · See more »

Canonization

Canonization is the act by which a Christian church declares that a person who has died was a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the "canon", or list, of recognized saints.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Canonization · See more »

Canton of Valais

The canton of Valais (Kanton Wallis) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland, situated in the southwestern part of the country, around the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Canton of Valais · See more »

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Catholic Church · See more »

Chalcedonian Christianity

Chalcedonian Christianity is the Christian denominations adhering to christological definitions and ecclesiological resolutions of the Council of Chalcedon, the Fourth Ecumenical Council held in 451.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Chalcedonian Christianity · See more »

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV (Karel IV., Karl IV., Carolus IV; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378Karl IV. In: (1960): Geschichte in Gestalten (History in figures), vol. 2: F-K. 38, Frankfurt 1963, p. 294), born Wenceslaus, was a King of Bohemia and the first King of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor · See more »

Childebert I

Childebert I (c. 496 – 13 December 558) was a Frankish King of the Merovingian dynasty, as third of the four sons of Clovis I who shared the kingdom of the Franks upon their father's death in 511.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Childebert I · See more »

Chilperic II of Burgundy

Chilperic II (Chilperikus; 450–493 AD) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Chilperic II of Burgundy · See more »

Chlodomer

Chlodomer, also spelled Clodomir or Clodomer (c. 495 - 524) was the second of the four sons of Clovis I, King of the Franks.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Chlodomer · See more »

Chlothar I

Chlothar I (c. 497 – 29 November 561), also called "Clotaire I" and the Old (le Vieux), King of the Franks, was one of the four sons of Clovis I of the Merovingian dynasty.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Chlothar I · See more »

Clotilde

Saint Clotilde (475–545), also known as Clothilde, Clotilda, Clotild, Rotilde etc.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Clotilde · See more »

Clovis I

Clovis (Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig; 466 – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Clovis I · See more »

Coulmiers

Coulmiers is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Coulmiers · See more »

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Czech Republic · See more »

Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Eastern Orthodox Church · See more »

Francia

Francia, also called the Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), or Frankish Empire was the largest post-Roman Barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Francia · See more »

Franks

The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum) were a collection of Germanic peoples, whose name was first mentioned in 3rd century Roman sources, associated with tribes on the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 3rd century AD, on the edge of the Roman Empire.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Franks · See more »

Godomar

Godomar (or Gundomar), son of king Gundobad, was king of Burgundy.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Godomar · See more »

Gregory of Tours

Saint Gregory of Tours (30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of the area that had been previously referred to as Gaul by the Romans. He was born Georgius Florentius and later added the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather. He is the primary contemporary source for Merovingian history. His most notable work was his Decem Libri Historiarum (Ten Books of Histories), better known as the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks), a title that later chroniclers gave to it, but he is also known for his accounts of the miracles of saints, especially four books of the miracles of St. Martin of Tours. St. Martin's tomb was a major pilgrimage destination in the 6th century, and St. Gregory's writings had the practical effect of promoting this highly organized devotion.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Gregory of Tours · See more »

Gundobad

Gundobad (Flavius Gundobadus; 452 – 516 AD) was King of the Burgundians (473 – 516), succeeding his father Gundioc of Burgundy.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Gundobad · See more »

Hussites

The Hussites (Husité or Kališníci; "Chalice People") were a pre-Protestant Christian movement that followed the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus, who became the best known representative of the Bohemian Reformation.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Hussites · See more »

Kingdom of Bohemia

The Kingdom of Bohemia, sometimes in English literature referred to as the Czech Kingdom (České království; Königreich Böhmen; Regnum Bohemiae, sometimes Regnum Czechorum), was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe, the predecessor of the modern Czech Republic.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Kingdom of Bohemia · See more »

Kingdom of the Burgundians

The Kingdom of the Burgundians or First Kingdom of Burgundy was established by Germanic Burgundians in the Rhineland and then in Savoy in the 5th century.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Kingdom of the Burgundians · See more »

List of kings of Burgundy

The following is a list of the kings of the two Kingdoms of Burgundy, and a number of related political entities devolving from Carolingian machinations over family relations.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and List of kings of Burgundy · See more »

Orléans

Orléans is a prefecture and commune in north-central France, about 111 kilometres (69 miles) southwest of Paris.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Orléans · See more »

Ostrogoths

The Ostrogoths (Ostrogothi, Austrogothi) were the eastern branch of the later Goths (the other major branch being the Visigoths).

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Ostrogoths · See more »

Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Patron saint · See more »

Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca (c. 1415 – 12 October 1492) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Piero della Francesca · See more »

Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Prague · See more »

Relic

In religion, a relic usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangible memorial.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Relic · See more »

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienne

The Archbishopric of Vienne, named after its episcopal see Vienne in the Isère département of southern France, was a metropolitan Roman Catholic archdiocese.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienne · See more »

Saint Maurice

Saint Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius) was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century, and one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that group.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Saint Maurice · See more »

Sardinia

| conventional_long_name.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Sardinia · See more »

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Sigismund of Luxembourg (15 February 1368 in Nuremberg – 9 December 1437 in Znaim, Moravia) was Prince-elector of Brandenburg from 1378 until 1388 and from 1411 until 1415, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1387, King of Germany from 1411, King of Bohemia from 1419, King of Italy from 1431, and Holy Roman Emperor for four years from 1433 until 1437, the last male member of the House of Luxembourg.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor · See more »

Statues of Saints Norbert, Wenceslaus and Sigismund

The statues of Saints Norbert, Wenceslaus and Sigismund are outdoor sculptures installed on the north side of the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Statues of Saints Norbert, Wenceslaus and Sigismund · See more »

Theoderic the Great

Theoderic the Great (454 – 30 August 526), often referred to as Theodoric (*𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃,, Flāvius Theodericus, Teodorico, Θευδέριχος,, Þēodrīc, Þjōðrēkr, Theoderich), was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), ruler of Italy (493–526), regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patricius of the Roman Empire.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Theoderic the Great · See more »

Theuderic I

Theuderic I (c. 487 – 533/4) was the Merovingian king of Metz, Rheims, or Austrasia—as it is variously called—from 511 to 533 or 534.

New!!: Sigismund of Burgundy and Theuderic I · See more »

Redirects here:

Saint Sigismund, Saint Sigismund of Burgundy, Sigismund, King of the Burgundians, Sigmund of Burgundy, Sigmund, King of the Burgundians, St. Sigismund.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_of_Burgundy

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »