FOOTNOTES:
[55] Cf. ad aratrum reducere, to ravage thoroughly.
[56] Great-uncle of Gregory on his mother’s side.
[57] Gregory’s great uncle.
HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF THE SIXTH BOOK
- 1. Childebert goes over to Chilperic; Mummulus flees.
- 2. Return of Chilperic’s legates from the East.
- 3. Childebert’s legates to Chilperic.
- 4. How Lupus was driven from Childebert’s kingdom.
- 5. Argument with a Jew.
- 6. The holy recluse Hospicius, his abstinence and miracles.
- 7. Passing away of Ferreolus, bishop of Uzès.
- 8. The recluse Ebarchius of Angoulême.
- 9. Domnolus, bishop of Mans.
- 10. St. Martin’s church is broken into.
- 11. Bishop Theodore and Dinamius.
- 12. An army marches against Bourges.
- 13. The killing of Lupus and Ambrosius, citizens of Tours.
- 14. The portents which appeared.
- 15. Death of bishop Felix.
- 16. Pappolenus recovers his wife.
- 17. Conversion of Jews by king Chilperic.
- 18. Return of king Chilperic’s legates from Spain.
- 19. King Chilperic’s men at the river Orge.
- 20. Death of duke Chrodinus.
- 21. Signs that appeared.
- 22. Bishop Cartherius.
- 23. A son is born to king Chilperic.
- 24. A second time about the plots against bishop Theodore and about Gundovald.
- 25. Signs.
- 26. Gunthram and Mummolus.
- 27. King Chilperic enters Paris.
- 28. Marcus the referendary.
- 29. The nuns of Poitiers.
- 30. Death of the emperor Tiberius.
- 31. The many evil deeds that king Chilperic ordered to be done, or did himself, in his brother’s cities.
- 32. Leudast’s death.
- 33. Locusts, plagues, and prodigies.
- 34. Death of Chilperic’s son named Theodoric.
- 35. Death of the prefect Mummulus and the women who were put to death.
- 36. Bishop Etherius.
- 37. Killing of Lupentius, abbot of Javols.
- 38. Death of bishop Theodosius and his successor.
- 39. Death of bishop Remedius and his successor.
- 40. My argument with a heretic.
- 41. King Chilperic retires to Cambrai with his treasures.
- 42. Childebert goes to Italy.
- 43. The kings of Gallicia.
- 44. Various prodigies.
- 45. Marriage of Riguntha, Chilperic’s daughter.
- 46. King Chilperic’s death.
HERE END THE CHAPTERS, THANKS BE TO GOD