History of the FranksGregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint
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History of the Franks
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint
France -- Church history -- To 987; France -- History -- To 987; Franks -- History -- To 768
[51] _ad ilicem._ Not in the Vulgate. Gregory probably used
in part a rude popular version of the Scriptures. See
Bonnet, p. 61.
[52] Reading _invisibilem_ for _indivisibilem_.
[53] Reading for _incestator_, _instecator_. Bonnet, _Le
Latin de Gregoire de Tours_, p. 454, 5.
HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF THE FOURTH BOOK
1. Queen Clotilda’s death.
2. King Clothar attempts to take a third of the revenues of the
churches.
3. His wives and children.
4. The counts of the Bretons.
5. The holy bishop Gallus.
6. The priest Cato.
7. The episcopate of Cautinus.
8. The kings of the Spaniards.
9. Theodovald’s death.
10. Rebellion of the Saxons.
11. The people of Tours at the bidding of the king invite Cato to
be their bishop.
12. The priest Anastasius.
13. Chramnus’s frivolity and wickedness and about Cautinus and
Firmin.
14. Clothar makes a second expedition against the Saxons.
15. Episcopate of the holy Eufronius.
16. Chramnus and his followers and the crimes he committed and
how he went to Dijon.
17. How Chramnus deserted to Childebert.
18. Duke Austrapius.
19. Death of the holy bishop Medard.
20. Death of Childebert and killing of Chramnus.
21. King Clothar’s death.
22. Division of the kingdom among his sons.
23. Sigibert marches against the Huns and Chilperic seizes his
cities.
24. The patrician Celsus.
25. Gunthram’s wives.
26. Charibert’s wives.
27. Sigibert marries Brunhilda.
28. Chilperic’s wives.
29. Sigibert’s second war with the Huns.
30. The people of Auvergne at King Sigibert’s bidding go to take
Arles.
31. About the town of Tauredunum and other marvels.
32. The monk Julian.
33. The abbot Sunniulf.
34. The monk of Bordeaux.
35. The episcopate of Avitus in Auvergne.
36. The holy Nicetius of Lyons.
37. The holy recluse Fiard.
38. The Spanish kings.
39. Death of Palladius at Clermont.
40. Emperor Justinus.
41. Albin and the Lombards settle in Italy.
42. Wars between them and Mummulus.
43. The archdeacon of Marseilles.
44. The Lombards and Mummulus.
45. Mummulus goes to Tours.
46. The killing of Andarchius.
47. Theodobert takes possession of the cities.
48. The monastery of Latta.
49. Sigibert goes to Paris.
50. Chilperic enters into a treaty with Gunthram; death of
Theodobert his son.
51. Death of king Sigibert.
HERE END THE CHAPTERS
HERE BEGINS THE FOURTH BOOK WITH HAPPY AUSPICES
[1. Queen Clotilda dies at Tours and is buried at Paris.]
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