[41. Fredegunda is accused of the killing of Prætextatus. 42. Beppolenus leaves Fredegunda and is made a duke by Gunthram. 43. Palladius, bishop of Saintes, is forced to appear before Gunthram. 44. Fredegunda attempts to have Gunthram assassinated. 45. Death of Duke Desiderius. 46. Richared succeeds Leuvigild of Spain.] HERE ENDS THE EIGHTH BOOK. FOOTNOTES: [62] Gundovald and his followers. [63] July. HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF THE NINTH BOOK 1. Richared and his legates. 2. The blessed Radegunda’s death. 3. The man who came to king Gunthram with a knife. 4. Another son is born to Childebert. 5. Prodigies. 6. They who lead astray and soothsayers. 7. Removal from office of duke Ennodius; the Gascons. 8. The appearance at court of Gunthram Boso. 9. Rauching’s death. 10. Gunthram Boso’s death. 11. Meeting of the kings. 12. Death of Ursio and of Bertefred. 13. Baddo who had been kept prisoner when on an embassy and long after was set free; dysentery. 14. Reconciliation between bishop Egidius and duke Lupus. 15. Richared’s conversion. 16. His embassy to our kings. 17. A hard year. 18. The Bretons and the death of bishop Namatius. 19. Killing of Sichar a citizen of Tours. 20. I am sent to king Gunthram on an embassy to maintain the peace. 21. The charities and goodness of the king. 22. The plague at Marseilles. 23. Death of bishop Ageric and his successor. 24. Episcopate of Fronimius. 25. Childebert’s army goes into Italy. 26. Death of queen Ingoberga. 27. Amalo’s death. 28. The beautiful things which queen Brunhilda sent. 29. The Lombards ask peace of king Childebert. 30. Assessors at Poitiers and Tours. 31. King Gunthram sends an army to Septimania. 32. Enmity between Childebert and Gunthram. 33. The nun Ingytrude goes to Childebert to make charges against her daughter. 34. Quarrels between Fredegunda and her daughter. 35. Killing of Waddo. 36. King Childebert sends Theodobert his son to Soissons. 37. Bishop Droctigisil. 38. What some wished to do to queen Brunhilda. 39. The scandal which arose in the convent of Poitiers through Chrodechild and Basina. 40. The first beginning of the scandal. 41. The fight in St. Hilarius’s church. 42. Copy of the letter which the holy Radegunda sent to the bishops. 43. The priest Theuther comes to end this scandal. 44. The weather. HERE THE CHAPTERS END IN CHRIST’S NAME HERE BEGINS BOOK NINE IN THE TWELFTH YEAR OF KING CHILDEBERT [1. Richared, the new king of Spain, sends legates to Gunthram and Childebert; they are not received by Gunthram. 2. Death of Radegunda.]