[AN] P. 60, l. 11. Note the use of the term barbarian (barbarus) for Frank. See also p. [94], c. 35.
[AO] P. 62, l. 8. Arndt remarks that the Meuse should certainly have been named in this passage rather than the Moselle. The latter, however, is the reading of all the Mss.
[AP] P. 64, l. 9. The Frankish kings were “long-haired” (reges crinitos) (p. [31]). The alternative offered to queen Clotilda was to countenance the degradation of her grandchildren from royal rank or “to see them dead.”
[AQ] P. 66, l. 7. The relation of godfather to godson was regarded as of great importance. See e.g. p. [179], l. 10.
[AR] P. 66, l. 13. Arles was probably taken by Theodobert about 534 and remained only a short time in his hands. Longnon, p. 434.
[AS] P. 67, l. 33. For the “fast of the Ninevites,” see Jonah 3, 5.
[AT] P. 70, c. 34. Professor J. W. Thompson (Commerce of France in the Ninth Century, Journal of Political Economy, November, 1915, pp. 876-7) regards this merchant group as probably going back to a Roman mercantile corporation. He is in error however in supposing that the merchants lent money to the king on the occasion Gregory refers to.
[AU] P. 70, c. 36. The Franks objected to being taxed not only because they were originally tax-free, but because the payment of taxes degraded them by placing them on a level with the conquered Gallo-Romans. This explains the bitterness of the enmity to Parthenius (cf. p. [177]), who may be judged from other references to him as a man intellectually at least much superior to the environment he found in Theodobert’s kingdom. See S. Hellman’s revision of Giesebrecht’s translation of the History of the Franks, vol. 3, p. 169.
[AV] P. 75, c. 2. Elsewhere (p. [220]) we learn that Clothar recognized the right not only of the clergy but of the people of Tours to go tax-free. The story told in this chapter would indicate that the bishop of Tours was the natural leader of the bishops of Clothar’s kingdom. Cf. Introd., p. [x].
[AW] P. 76, l. 30-31. The meaning is that the native rulers remained, there being a difference only in title.