Battle of Vicus Helena

Battle of Vicus Helena
Part of the Fall of the Roman Empire
and Roman–Germanic Wars

The battle took place somewhere in Belgica II
Datec. 445–450
Location
Vicus Helena, Belgica Secunda
Result Roman victory
Belligerents
Western Roman Empire Salian Franks
Commanders and leaders
Flavius Aetius
Julius Majorian
Chlodio

The Battle of Vicus Helena was a clash between the Salian Franks, led by Chlodio, and Roman soldiers, commanded by general Flavius Aetius. The battle is attested in a limited number of late Roman and early Medieval sources, having occurred around the year 448, in an unidentified location named Vicus Helena, somewhere in the Civitas Atrebatium, modern Artois.[1]

  1. ^ O'Hara, Alexander (2018). Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus: Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780190858025. Retrieved 1 September 2020.

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