Siege of Fiesole by Goths. The Battle of Faesulae was fought in 406 CE as part of the Gothic invasion of the Western Roman Empire.
After General Flavius Stilicho repelled the Visigoths at Pollentia and Verona, he encountered a new incursion of Vandals and Goths led by Radagaisus whose forces attacked Florence. Stilicho ultimately defeated the invaders at Faesulae with support from Uldin the Hun and Sarus the Goth.
Radagaisus was executed after the battle and survivors of his armies fled to Alaric. Main article: Siege of Florence In late 405 or early 406, King Radagaisus crossed the Alps and marched into Italy with a large Celtic/Germanic force.
After overrunning the undefended Rhaetia and northern Italy, heavily devastating the fertile countryside, they halted to besiege Florence, only 180 miles north of Rome. Stilicho, Master-General of the west, hastily gathered forces for the defense of Italy, enrolling in his service a tribe of the Alani, and numbers of the Goths under Sarus and the Huns under Uldin, his army amounting to some 20,000 Romans and auxiliaries.
Radagaisus, by comparison, who likewise had in his army miscellaneous detachments of Goths and Alani, had as many as 20,000 barbarian warriors at his back, amounting, together with wives, slaves, and children, to between 50,000 and 100,000. While Stilicho had been collecting his army, the minute garrison of Florence had held out with praiseworthy
After General Flavius Stilicho repelled the Visigoths at Pollentia and Verona, he encountered a new incursion of Vandals and Goths led by Radagaisus whose forces attacked Florence. Stilicho ultimately defeated the invaders at Faesulae with support from Uldin the Hun and Sarus the Goth.
Radagaisus was executed after the battle and survivors of his armies fled to Alaric. Main article: Siege of Florence In late 405 or early 406, King Radagaisus crossed the Alps and marched into Italy with a large Celtic/Germanic force.
After overrunning the undefended Rhaetia and northern Italy, heavily devastating the fertile countryside, they halted to besiege Florence, only 180 miles north of Rome. Stilicho, Master-General of the west, hastily gathered forces for the defense of Italy, enrolling in his service a tribe of the Alani, and numbers of the Goths under Sarus and the Huns under Uldin, his army amounting to some 20,000 Romans and auxiliaries.
Radagaisus, by comparison, who likewise had in his army miscellaneous detachments of Goths and Alani, had as many as 20,000 barbarian warriors at his back, amounting, together with wives, slaves, and children, to between 50,000 and 100,000. While Stilicho had been collecting his army, the minute garrison of Florence had held out with praiseworthy
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