Bourgondiones, Burgundii, a powerful race of Vandals or Goths, whose original territory lay between the Oder and the Vistula. Some of the ancient writers, however, state that they were descendants of the Roman garrisons who had been left in Germany by Drusus and Tiberius. They were driven out of their territory by the Gepidæ, and gradually proceeded westward till they settled in Gaul, where they organized the powerful principality of Burgundy.