In this conflict, the Franks were the aggressors who tried to gain a foothold in Aquitaine, where the Aquitanian Goths had been in power since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Other contemporary sources do report on the hostilities between Franks and Visigoths and on this basis it is possible to reconstruct the course of the war in which Clovis carried out at least two raids.

[2] The deeper cause of this war is in a sense the disintegration of the Late Roman army in the west after the fall of Emperor Majorian in 461 and the power vacuum that arose afterwards.

In Gaul, population groups revolted and army leaders of both Roman or Barbarian origin tried to fill the vacuum by taking matters into their own hands.

In 481 at the beginning of his reign, he only had a base of power in Tournai, but barely five years later he had overthren his rival Syagrius and thus acquired authority over the former Roman army in Gaul.

[13] With these reconquests, all previously experienced losses were made up for, and the result of Clovi's war was largely nil,[12] even though Nantes was apparently taken by the Armoricians.

[14] Despite resounding victories of Clovis at the beginning of this war, in which his armies were able to plunder cheerfully, this first Frankish-Visigothic confrontation ended in defeat.