The Visigoths founded a powerful kingdom in south-western Gaul centred on Toulouse, before being defeated by Clovis’s Franks at Vouillé (507) and withdrawing toward Spain.

Kingdom of Toulouse

Settled as federates in Aquitaine around 418, they dominated a mostly Catholic Gallo-Roman population while their elites long remained Arian.

Vouillé (507)

Clovis defeated Alaric II; Aquitaine shifted into the Frankish orbit. See Great Battles.

Spain

The Visigothic kingdom of Toledo lasted until the Arab-Berber conquest of 711.