God and have gone after other gods and have not done right in his sight, therefore the Lord your God has betrayed you into the hands of your enemies.” And this verse was found in the Psalms: “But thou hast brought evils upon them because of their deceitfulness; thou hast hurled them down when they were lifted up. How have they been brought to desolation? They have suddenly failed and perished because of their iniquities.” And in the Gospels this was found: “Ye know that after two days the passover cometh and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.” At these answers he was troubled and wept long at the tomb of the blessed bishop, and then taking duke Gunthram with him he went off with five hundred men or more. He left the holy church and while marching through the territory of Auxerre he was captured by Erpo, king Gunthram’s duke. And while he was being held by him he escaped by some chance and entered the church of the holy Germanus. On hearing this king Gunthram was angry and fined Erpo seven hundred gold pieces and removed him from office, saying: “You held prisoner one who my brother says is his enemy. Now if you intended to do this, you should first have brought him to me; otherwise you should not have touched him whom you pretended to hold prisoner.” King Chilperic’s army came as far as Tours and plundered this region and burned it and laid it waste, and did not spare St. Martin’s property, but whatever he got his hands on he took without regard for God or any fear. Merovech remained nearly two months in the church I have mentioned and then fled and went to queen Brunhilda, but he was not received by the Austrasians.[CM] And his father set his army in motion against the people of Champagne, believing that he was hiding there. He did no injury, but he could not find Merovech.