Its initial stages saw the army of king Sangiban forced to support the winning side.
This battle was preceded by a sack of Divodurum two months earlier, and Lupus, the Bishop of Troyes, saved that city from destruction by appeal to the invading army. Two years after this clash, the losing force was decimated again at the Battle of Nedao. Its initial stages saw the army of king Sangiban forced to support the winning side. An account of this battle by Jordanes says that many were forced to drink their own blood at a brook. Soon after its conclusion, the losing commander met with the pope, after he'd earlier been invited to take Honoria as his bride. This battle saw forces under Valamir and others beaten back by a coalition of Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic troops of Theodoric. For 10 points, name this major victory for the Western Roman Empire against the invading Huns in 451 C.E., which took place on an eponymous plain.
This battle was preceded by a sack of Divodurum two months earlier, and Lupus, the Bishop of Troyes, saved that city from destruction by appeal to the invading army.
Battle of Chalons or Battle of Catalaunian Plains (or Fields) or Battle of the Campus Mauricacus