Syagrius

Gregory of Tours is the primary source for Syagrius's defeat and subsequent execution on Clovis's orders; modern historians including Penny MacGeorge and Ian Wood have worked to reconstruct his exact status and territory, since the sources are less detailed about the nature of his authority ('kingdom of the Romans' is a modern historian's shorthand more than a documented contemporary title) than about the battle's outcome. Clovis's practical retention of much of the existing Gallo-Roman administrative structure after the conquest is well documented and reflects historical continuity rather than a total rupture.