Rodez was successively occupied by the Visigoths, the Franks, the armies of the Dukes of Aquitaine and the Counts of Toulouse, as well as by the Moors, which invested in it in 725, and laid down the ancient church.
The history of the city remained marked for a long time by an intense rivalry between the Counts of Rodez, masters of the village, and the , masters of the city.