Editing Burgundians (section)

===Roman accounts===
A people with the same name, Burgundiones, were described by early Roman writers as living in present-day Poland. 
*In the first century AD, authors such as [[Tacitus]] and [[Pliny the Elder]] knew little concerning the Germanic peoples east of the [[Elbe river]], or on the Baltic Sea. Pliny (IV.28), however, mentions a group with the specific Latin name as it would be used in France, ''Burgundiones'', among the [[Vandals|Vandalic]] ''Germani'' - a group which also included the [[Gutones]], [[Varini]] and the otherwise unknown Carini. 
*[[Claudius Ptolemy]], writing in the 2nd century, listed the ''Burguntes'' (a more unusual form) as living between the Suevus (probably the [[Oder river|Oder]]) and Vistula rivers, north of the [[Lugii|Lugian tribe]]s the ''Omani'' and ''Diduni'', and south of the ''[[Aelvaeones]]''.

It has also been proposed that there several important Germanic tribes later found settled near Roman frontiers originally had their origins around the Baltic sea, including the [[Rugii]], [[Goths]], [[Gepids|Gepidae]], [[Vandals]], and others.<ref name="TheGermansAndTheHuns">{{cite web |url=http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/195896/history-of-Europe/58257/Barbarian-migrations-and-invasions |title=History of Europe: The Germans and Huns |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]] |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]] |access-date=January 16, 2015 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714192928/http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/195896/history-of-Europe/58257/Barbarian-migrations-and-invasions |url-status=live }}</ref> According to such proposals, their movement south created turmoil along the entire Roman frontier.<ref name="TheGermansAndTheHuns"/><ref name="TheBarbarianInvasions">{{cite web |url=http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/507905/ancient-Rome/26693/The-barbarian-invasions |title=Ancient Rome: The barbarian invasions |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]] |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]] |access-date=January 16, 2015}}</ref><ref name="GermanicPeoples">{{cite web |url=http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/231063/Germanic-peoples |title=Germanic peoples |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]] |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]] |access-date=January 16, 2015 |archive-date=November 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120131904/http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/231063/Germanic-peoples |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="EBGermanyAncientHistory">{{cite web |url=http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/231186/Germany/58075/The-press |title=Germany: Ancient History |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]] |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]] |access-date=January 16, 2015 |archive-date=August 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828160433/http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/231186/Germany/58075/The-press |url-status=live }}</ref> Southwards migrations are believed to have triggered the [[Marcomannic Wars]], which resulted in widespread destruction and the first invasion of Italy in the Roman Empire period.<ref name="EBGermanyAncientHistory"/> Writing in the 6th century, [[Jordanes]] reported that during the 3rd century AD, the Burgundians had been living near the Vistula basin, where they were almost annihilated by [[Fastida]], king of the Gepids, whose kingdom was also originally near the mouth of the Vistula.

In the late 3rd century AD, the Burgundians appeared on the east bank of the Rhine, apparently confronting Roman Gaul. [[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]] (1.68) reports them being defeated by the emperor [[Marcus Aurelius Probus|Probus]] in 278 near a river, together with the [[Silingi]] and Vandals. A few years later, [[Claudius Mamertinus]] mentions them along with the [[Alamanni]], a [[Suebi]]c people. These two peoples had moved into the [[Agri Decumates]] on the eastern side of the Rhine, an area still referred to today as [[Swabia]], at times attacking Roman Gaul together and sometimes fighting each other. He also mentions that the Goths had previously defeated the Burgundians.

[[Ammianus Marcellinus]], on the other hand, claimed that the Burgundians descended from the Romans. The Roman sources do not speak of any specific migration from Poland by the Burgundians, and so there have historically been some doubts about the link between the eastern and western Burgundians.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=burgundiones-geo&highlight=burgundiones |title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography |year=1854 |first=William |last=Smith |access-date=2021-02-20 |archive-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408003945/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=burgundiones-geo&highlight=burgundiones |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 369/370 AD, the Emperor [[Valentinian I]] enlisted the aid of the Burgundians in his war against the Alamanni.

Approximately four decades later, the Burgundians appear again. Following [[Stilicho]]'s withdrawal of troops to fight [[Alaric I]] the [[Visigoths|Visigoth]] in 406–408 AD, a large group of peoples from central Europe north of the Danube came west and crossed the Rhine, entering the Empire near the lands of the Burgundians who had moved much earlier. The dominant groups were [[Alans]], [[Vandals]] ([[Hasdingi]] and [[Silingi]]), and Danubian [[Suevi]]. The majority of these Danubian peoples moved through Gaul and eventually established themselves in kingdoms in Roman Hispania. One group of Alans was settled in northern Gaul by the Romans.

Some Burgundians were settled as ''[[foederati]]'' in the Roman province of [[Germania Prima]] along the [[Middle Rhine]]. Other Burgundians, however, remained outside the empire and apparently formed a contingent in [[Attila]]'s [[Hunnic Empire|Hunnic]] army by 451 AD.<ref name=Appolinarius /><ref name=Luebe />