Battle of Narbonne (436)

Battle of Narbonne (436)

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Part of The Gothic War of 436
View of Narbonne (Aude, France).
Battle of Narbonne
Belligerents Western Roman Empire Huns	Visigoths
Commanders and leaders Litorius	Theodoric I
Strength Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses Unknown	Unknown

 

 

Gothic War (376–382) Gothic War (401-403) Florence Faesulae Crossing of the Rhine Ostia Rome (410) Massilia Nervasos Mountains Tarraco Arles (425) Mérida Hippo Regius Rimini Arles (435) Narbonne Carthage Toulouse (439) Vicus Helena Utus Catalaunian Plains (Chalons) Aquileia Rome (455) Aylesford Agrigentum Corsica Garigliano Camp Cannini Toulouse (458) Arelate Cartagena Orleans Bergamo Cape Bon Déols Arles (471) Rome (472) Ravenna (475) Pavia Ravenna (476) Soissons

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Fall of the Western Roman Empire

 

The Siege of Narbonne was a conflict between the Visigothic Foederati of Aquitania and the Western Roman Empire. The siege began in late 436 and carried over into 437, when the Roman Magister Militum Litorius arrived with a force of Huns and the Gallic Field Army.[1] Litorius surprised the Visigoths and routed their army before they could draw up a coherent battle line.[2] Prosper of Aquitaine records that to alleviate the starvation of the city, each soldier in Litorius' army was ordered to carry two measures of wheat for the citizens of Narbonne.[3]

 

 

• Sidonius Apollonaris, Carmen 7.246-248
• Prosper of Aquitaine, s.a. 436

Prosper of Aquitaine, s.a. 436