The Burgond tribes are originally from the north of Europe and their name means “High men”. These tribes first settled on an area between the Rhine, the territories of actual Poland and to the south until the Danube.

Their first mission from the first to the fifth century was to guard the oriental border of the Roman Empire.

In year 443, they moved away from the Rhenish shores, following Caesar's orders and came to establish themselves in the region of Geneva. Their kings had to secure and control militarily the Alps passageway as well as to keep the Allamans north and counterstrike their raids against the Empire.

From the fifth to the sixth century, the old Empire they had to protect collapsed. Therefore, the Burgundy which was covering a part of the actual France and Switzerland (French part) had to work on its independence on this territory named Sapaudia (Land of fir) whose Capital was Geneva.

This is a fascinating but nevertheless unknown period. Burgundy which much later in history will become « Bourgogne » is the witness of a harmonizing cohabitation between a northern people and the Celtic and Gaelic tribes as well as the roman natives within mutual respect under a law (Lex Gundobaldi or Law Gombette) written by the most important king we ever had, the King Gondebaud. This act of law fixed little by little the limit between the German and the French part of Switzerland, like the different faiths along with ways and customs of every tribe in the kingdom into an equalitarian syncretism.

Linking antiquity with the high middle age period, the decrees and the tribulations of the royal dynasty have impregnated our political and social roots just as our culture. With intelligence and diplomacy and also strength, people from several horizons have known how to generate a true collectivity symbiosis in the very middle of many barbarian realms, empires and wild territories.