FOOTNOTES:
[60] Salvius died Sept. 10, 584. Chilperic’s death which closes Book VI occurred in 584.
HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF THE EIGHTH BOOK
- 1. Visit of the king at Orleans.
- 2. How the bishops were presented to him and how he made ready a feast.
- 3. The singers and Mummolus’s silver.
- 4. Praise of king Childebert.
- 5. The visions of Chilperic which the king and I saw.
- 6. Those whom I presented.
- 7. How bishop Palladius said mass.
- 8. Prodigies.
- 9. The oath given in behalf of Chilperic’s son.
- 10. The bodies of Merovech and Clovis.
- 11. The doorkeepers and the killing of Boantus.
- 12. Bishop Theodore and the plague that visited Ratharius.
- 13. The embassy sent by Gunthram to Childebert.
- 14. Danger on the river.
- 15. Conversion of deacon Vulfilaic.
- 16. What he related of St. Martin’s miracles.
- 17. The signs which appeared.
- 18. Childebert sends an army into Italy; the dukes and counts who are appointed or removed.
- 19. Killing of the abbot Daulfus.
- 20. Acts of the synod at Mâcon.
- 21. The court at Beslingen and the violation of sepulcher.
- 22. Death of the bishops and of Wandalinus.
- 23. Floods.
- 24. The islands of the sea.
- 25. The island in which blood appeared.
- 26. The former duke Berulf.
- 27. Desiderius returns to the king.
- 28. Hermengild and Ingunda and the Spanish legates secretly sent to Fredegunda.
- 29. Fredegunda sends persons to kill Childebert.
- 30. The army makes an expedition against Septimania.
- 31. The killing of bishop Prætextatus.
- 32. Killing of Domnola, Nectarius’s wife.
- 33. Burning of Paris.
- 34. Temptations of recluses.
- 35. Spanish legates.
- 36. Killing of Magnovald.
- 37. A son is born to Childebert.
- 38. The Spaniards burst into the Gauls.
- 39. Death of the bishops.
- 40. Pelagius of Tours.
- 41. The slayers of Prætextatus.
- 42. Beppolenus is appointed duke.
- 43. Nicecius is appointed governor of Provence; doings of Antestius.
- 44. The man who wished to kill king Gunthram.
- 45. Death of duke Desiderius.
- 46. Death of king Leuvigild.
HERE END THE CHAPTERS OF THE EIGHTH BOOK. THANKS BE TO GOD. AMEN.