951 On account of Adelheid’s wrongs Otto I, the East Frankish king, invades Italy and compels the two kings to become his vassals. Otto marries Adelheid.
962 Deposition of Berengar and Adalbert. Otto crowned emperor. The kingdoms of Italy and Germany (East Francia) are united.
THE FIRST KINGDOM OF BURGUNDY (413-534 A.D.)
The Burgundians, a Gothic tribe, invade Gaul in 275, but are driven out by the emperor Probus. Returning in 287 they settle on the Neckar and the Rhine, and 413 they establish a kingdom with Gundicar, their leader, as king.
436 Gunderis succeeds his father. He extends the kingdom, which reaches from the Saône and lower Rhone and from Dijon, to the Mediterranean.
470 The kingdom is divided among Gunderis’ four sons: Chilperic, Gundobald, Godegisil, and Gondemar, but it is soon reunited under Gundobald, who makes the Burgundian code of laws.
516 Sigismund succeeds his father, Gundobald, and he in turn is succeeded by Gundimar.
534 Conquest of the kingdom of Burgundy by the sons of Clovis. It forms a part of the Frankish kingdom.
561 The Frankish kingdom is redivided among the sons of Clotaire. Burgundy a separate kingdom until 613 (see Merovingian kings).