[T] P. 31, l. 23. In consolaribus legimus. Nothing further is known of this source. If the following sentences are also drawn from it, it is plain that its writer speaks as one living to the north of the Loire before the conquest of that country by the Franks. Monod, Sources de l’histoire mérovingienne, p. 85.
[U] P. 33, c. 14-16. For Merovingian church architecture see Enlart, Archéologie française, vol. 1, ch. 2. No trace of the churches mentioned by Gregory survives.
[V] P. 36, c. 22. Sidonius Apollinaris (d. 480), the leading literary man of his time in Gaul, was bishop of Clermont the last ten years of his life. Gregory’s work on the masses written by him is lost. Although Gregory was born more than fifty years after Sidonius’ death, he speaks in this intimate way of the former bishop of the place of his birth. On Sidonius see Dill, Society in the Last Century of the Roman Empire, c. iv. Sidonius’ Letters have just been translated by R. M. Dalton, Oxford, 1915.
[W] P. 36, c. 27 f. For an acute analysis of the literary and oral origins of Gregory’s account of Clovis, see Kurth, Les sources de l’histoire de Clovis (Revue des quest. hist., 1888).
[X] P. 37, l. 33. Campus Martius. The March-field, later changed to the May-field, campus Madius, the annual assembly of the Franks.
[Y] P. 41, l. 8. Sigamber, one of the Sigambri, a German tribe forming a section of the Frankish people.
[Z] P. 41, l. 16. From the number Gregory reports as having been baptized, possibly an exaggeration in itself, we can see that Clovis’ army was relatively small.
[AA] P. 44, l. 8. The Lex Gundobada, still in existence (Mon. Germ. Hist., Legum, Sect. I, Legum Nationum Germ. tomi II, pars 1), is a codification of Burgundian custom. Gundobad also issued a code for his Roman subjects. The object of his legislation was largely to secure a better understanding between Romans and Burgundians. Cf. Lavisse, Histoire de France, II, p. 88 f. For bibliographical references see R. Schroeder, Lehrbuch der deutschen Rechtsgeschichte (1902), p. 241.
[AB] P. 45, l. 4. See Introduction, pp. [xviii] and [xxii].
[AC] P. 46, l. 35 f. The battle of Vouillé was fought in 507. The people of Auvergne, led by Apollinaris, son of Sidonius Apollinaris (p. [36]), fought on the side of the Visigoths.