 In 523-524, at Clotilde's instigation, her sons joined in an expedition against King Sigismund's Burgundians.After the arrest of Sigismund and his family, Chlodomer returned to Orléans.Sigismund's brother, Godomar III, supported by his ally and relative, the Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great, slaughtered the garrison the Franks had left in Burgundy.