Flavius Aetius
Around 428, the king Chlodio, whose kingdom may have been in the "civitas Tungrorum" (with its capital in Tongeren), launched an attack on Roman territory and extended his realm as far as "Camaracum" (Cambrai) and the Somme. Though Sidonius Apollinaris relates that Flavius Aetius defeated a wedding party of his people (c. 431), this period marks the beginning of a situation that would endure for many centuries: the Germanic Franks ruled over an increasing number of Gallo-Roman subjects.