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
Nineth Book
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.]