History of the Franks

by Saint Bishop of Tours Gregory

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.]