[1] Clovis did not give up on his attempt to secure his kingdom an outlet to the Mediterranean Sea, and in 510 he ordered his forces to carry out another offensive on Arles, which was however repelled by Ibbas.

[2] After the expulsion of the Franks, Provence passed into the hands of the Ostrogoths and Theodoric found himself in a good position to overthrow Gesaleic, so he sent his general to take Carcassonne and Narbonne in 509, forcing the Visigoth to take refuge in Barcelona.

The Vandal, fearful of the power accumulated by Theodoric, refused to lend him troops and sent him into exile in Aquitaine,[4][5] where he was to maintain certain friendships but had to remain in hiding for a year.

At that time Theodoric had proclaimed his grandson Amalaric king,[6] son of Alaric II and an illegitimate daughter of the Gothic monarch of Italy.

As Amalric was only five years old, Theodoric assumed his regency and had his army withdrawn from Visigothic territory, since Arles was declared the capital of the prefecture of Gaul in the Ostrogothic kingdom, governed by the prefect Liberius.