Gundobad’s battle with his third brother, Godegisel,…

Gundobad’s battle with his third brother, Godegisel, raged long according to Gregory of Tours.es

Unaware of the others actions, each call upon King Clovis trying to persuade him to join forces against the other.

Clovis sides with Godegisel, who had offered him his pleasure of tribute; Wood observes archly that Clovis' wife, Clotilde, whose father had been killed by Gundobad, "was not likely to encourage good relations between the Franks and the Burgundians."

Together they crush Gundobad's force.

Gundobad flees but Clovis pursues him to Avignon.

With Clovis's army at the gates, Gundobad fears the worst, but Aridius goes from Gundobad to Clovis and persuades him to spare Gundobad in return for a yearly tribute.

The chronicler Marius of Avenches dates this conflict to 500.