• General Notes

  Note: Title: The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy, by Christopher Cope, Constable & Co, London, 1986
  
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  Gondioc (Latin: *Candiaco;[citation needed] also called Gundioc, Condiaco, Candiacus and Gundowech, died 473) was king of Burgundy following the destruction of Worms by the Huns in 436, succeeding Gundahar. Gondioc married the sister of Ricimer, the Gothic general at the time ruling the Western Roman Empire.
  
  Gundobad, the son of Gondioc, succeeded Ricimer in 472, but abdicated after the death of his father in the following year as Gondioc was succeeded by his brother Chilperic I. After the death of Chilperic, Burgundy was divided among the sons of Gondioc, Gundobad, Chilperic II of Burgundy, Godomar and Godegisel.
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundioch
  
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  The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy, by Christopher Cope, Constable & Co, London,
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  The Burgundians were a Scandinavian people whose original homeland lay on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea, where the island of Bornholm (Burgundarholm in the Middle Ages) still bears their name. About the 1st century AD they moved into the lower valley of the Vistula River, but, unable to defend themselves there against the Gepidae, they migrated westward to the borders of the Roman Empire. There, serving as foederati, or auxiliaries, in the Roman army, they established a powerful kingdom, which by the early 5th century extended to the west bank of the Rhine River and later centred on Sapaudia (Savoy) near Lake Geneva.
  
  As Rome's hold over its Western Empire declined in the second half of the 5th century, the Burgundians gradually spread their control over areas to the north and west of Savoy and then throughout the Rhône and Saône river valleys. This second Burgundian kingdom reached its zenith under the lawgiver and Christian king Gundobad (474-516), who promulgated a written code of laws, the Lex Gundobada, for the Burgundians and a separate code, the Lex Romana Burgundionum, for his Gallo-Roman subjects. This Burgundy remained independent until 534, when the Franks occupied the kingdom, extinguishing the royal dynasty.
  See: Encyclopædia Britannica Online, "Clotilda, Saint".
  
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  FMG: According to Gregory of Tours, Gundioc King of the Burgunds was "of the family of King Athanaric [of the Goths]? [Gregory of Tours II.28, p. 141].  On the other hand, Gondebaud King of Burgundy, in the Lex Gundobada, names "Gebicam, Godomarem, Gislaharium, Gundaharium, patrem quoque nostrum et patruum? [Burgundionum Leges, Lex Gundobada, III, MGH LL III, p. 533].  Sécretan suggests that the two reports can be reconciled if Gundioc married the sister of Ricimer [Sécretan, E. ´Les premier royaume de Bourgogne´, Mémoires et documents publiés par la société d´histoire de la Suisse Romande, Tome XXIV (Lausanne, 1868), p. 51.].  He succeeded his father in 436 as Gundioc King of the Burgundians.  The Romans installed the Burgundians in Sapaudia, north of Lake Geneva, in 443 or 447 [Chronicle of 452, 128, cited in Wood (1994), p. 9.].  The Burgundians were expelled from land around Lyon in 458 by Emperor Majorian, but Gundioc became magister militum in Gaul during the reign of Emperor Severus 461-465 [Wood (1994), pp. 14-15.].  Burgundian troops helped the Romans to defend Clermont against the Visigoths in 471 and 472 [Wood (1994), p. 17.].  King Gundioc divided his territories between his four sons.
  
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  He was related to the Visigothic kings and shared their Arian Christian faith. At his death, his kingdom was divided between his four sons, Gundobad, Godegesil, Chilperic, and Gundomar. Later, Gundobad murdered brother Chilperic and his consort/wife, forcing their two daughters to take refuge in Geneva with uncle Godegesil. Clovis, hearing good reports of the one daughter, Clotilda, obtained permission for marriage from Gundobad, a marriage yielding 4 sons, 3 to become future kings.

Details of Gundioc's family with Caratene de Bourgogne