History of the Franks

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| +------+---+----+----+-----+---+----+-----+-----+ | | | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Theodobert | Clovis | Riguntha | Samson | Theodoric | d. 575 | d. 580 | | d. 577 | d. 584 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 1 3 3 3 Merovech Basina Clodobert Dagobert Clothar II d. 577 nun at d. 580 d. 580 d. 629 Poitiers

(The numbers indicate the mothers, as given in the list.)

GREGORY’S FAMILY

Gregory, bishop of Langres Florentius m. Armentaria m. Artemia | | +----------------+---------+------+ +------+-------+ | | | | | | | Georgius, m. Leocadia | A Son A Son A Daughter | Gundulf | | | | | | duke | Tetricus, bishop of | +-----+--+ Nicetius, bishop | Langres | | of Lyons | Eufronius | | Bishop of Tours | | | +---+---------------------+ | | | | Gallus, bishop of Clermont | | Gorgius Florentinus, m.-+-Armentaria | +-------+-------+ | | | Gregory, bishop | A Daughter of Tours | m. Justinus Peter, deacon | at Langres | | +------+------+ | | Justina Eusthenia nun at Poitiers m. Nicetius

BIBLIOGRAPHY[98]

EDITIONS

ARNDT, W., et BR. KRUSCH, _Gregorii Turonensis Opera_. 1885. In Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Displaces all previous editions.

OMONT, H., et G. COLLON, _Grégoire de Tours, Histoire des Francs, Texte de manuscrits de Corbie et de Bruxelles_. New edition by René Poupardin.[99] Paris, 1913. In _Collection de textes pour servir à l’étude et l’enseignement de l’histoire_.

TRANSLATIONS

BORDIER, H. _Histoire ecclésiastique des Francs par saint Grégoire, évêque de Tours_, Paris, 1859-61.

GIESEBRECHT, W. _Zehn Bücher fränkischer Geschichte vom Bischof Gregorius von Tours._ Berlin, 1851. New edition, in 3 vols. revised by S. Hellmann, 1913 (Geschichtschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit). Only the last volume of the new edition has been available.

GUADET, J., et TARANNE, N. R. _Histoire ecclésiastique des Francs par Georges Florent Grégoire, évêque de Tours._ Paris, 1836.

GUIZOT, M. _Histoire des Francs par Grégoire de Tours._ Paris, 1823.

GENERAL

AMPÈRE, J. J. _Histoire littéraire de la France avant Charlemagne._ Paris, 1870.

BONNET, MAX. _Le Latin de Grégoire de Tours._ Paris, 1890. A work indispensable to the reader of the Latin text.

CARRIÈRE, A. _Sur un chapitre de Grégoire de Tours relatif à l’histoire d’Orient_ (Annuaire de l’école pratique des hautes études), 1898.

DECLAREUIL, O. _Les épreuves judiciaires dans le droit franc du Vᵉ au VIIIᵉ siècle._ Paris, 1899.

FAHLBECK, P. _La Royauté et le droit royal Francs (486-614). Traduit par J. H. Kramer._ Lund, 1883.

GALY, C. _La famille à l’époque mérovingienne._ Paris, 1901.

HELLMANN, S. _Studien zur mittelalterlichen Geschichtschreibung._ I. _Gregor von Tours._ Hist. Zeitschrift. 1911.

HUGUEMIN, M. A. _Histoire du royaume Mérovingien d’Austrasie._ Paris, 1862.

JUNGHAUS, W. _Histoire critique des règnes de Childebert et de Chlodovech; traduite par G. Monod._ Paris, 1879.

KRUSCH, B. _Zur Chronologie der merovingischen Könige_ (Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte), 1882.

KURTH, G. _Clovis._ Tours, 1891.

---- _De la nationalité des comtes francs_ (Mélanges Paul Fabre). Paris, 1903.

---- _Histoire poétique des Mérovingiens._ Paris, 1893.

---- _Les ducs et les comtes d’Auvergne au VIᵉ siècle_ (Bull. de l’Acad. roy. de Belgique), 1899.

---- _Les ducs et les comtes de Touraine au VIᵉ siècle_ (Bull. de l’Acad. roy. de Belgique), 1906.

---- _Les sources de l’histoire de Clovis_ (Revue des quest. hist.), 1888.

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---- _Saint Grégoire de Tours et les études classiques au VIᵉ siècle_ (Revue des quest. hist.), 1878.

LESNE, E. _La propriété ecclésiastique en France aux époques romaine et mérovingienne._ Paris, 1910.

LOEBELL, J. W. _Gregor von Tours und seine Zeit._ Leipsic, 1869.

LONGNON, A. _Géographie de la Gaule au VIᵉ siècle._ Paris, 1878. Indispensable to the reader of Gregory’s works. It is largely a geographical commentary on the _History of the Franks_.

MARIGNAN, A. _Études sur la civilisation française._ Tome I. _La société mérovingienne._ Tome II. _Le culte des saints sous les Mérovingiens._

MONOD, G. _Les aventures de Sichaire_ (Revue Historique), 1886.

---- _Sources de l’histoire mérovingienne._ Paris, 1872.

PROU, M. _Examen de quelques passages de Grégoire de Tours relatifs à l’application de la peine de mort_ (Études d’histoire du moyen âge dediées à G. Monod). Paris, 1896.

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TARDIF, J. _Études sur les institutions politiques et administratives de la France. Époque mérovingienne._ Paris, 1881.

THIERRY, AUG. _Récits des temps mérovingiens._ Paris, 1840.

URBAT, R. _Beitrage zu einer Darstellung der romanischen Elemente im Latin der Historia Francorum des Gregor v. Tours._ Königsberg, 1890.

VAUCELLE, E. R. _La collégiale de saint Martin de Tours (397-1328)_. Paris, 1908.

WEIMANN, K. _Die sittliche Begriffe in Gregor von Tours “Historia Francorum.”_ Duisburg, 1900.

FOOTNOTES:

[98] Not exhaustive.

[99] A full list of editions and translations may be found in this edition, pp. xxiv-xxx. The most famous of the early editions is that by Th. Ruinart, Paris, 1699.

INDEX[100]

=Ætius=, 26.

=Alamanni=, Alemanni, 13, 30, 35, 39-40, 47.

=Alani=, 27, 30.

=Alaric=, 36, 44-47, 53.

=Albin=, king of the Lombards, 76, 95.

=Amalaric=, 47, 54, 58, 68.

=Anastasius=, 80.

=Andarchius=, 97-99.

=Andelot=, 213.

=Apollinaris= Sidonius, 36, 47, 80.

=Arcadius=, 64.

=Aregunda=, 75.

=Aregyselus=, 59.

=Arians=, 5, 24, 25, 41, 45, 53, 89, 131, 156, 210.

=Aridius=, 42.

=Arles=, 66, 89, 91, 237, 244.

=Attalus=, 60-63.

=Attila=, 26.

=Audovald=, Duke, 230.

=Austrasians=, 118.

=Austrechild=, xxii, 87, 130.

=Auvergne=, ix, xi, xiii, 44, 58, 63, 67, 85, 94, 232, 233-235, 250, 252.

=Avignon=, 42, 97, 152, 157, 158, 183, 191, 244.

=Avitus= the abbot, 55, 120, 190.

=Babylonia=, 8, 9.

=Basina=, 33.

=Basina=, daughter of Chilperic, 236-243.

=Belsuarius=, 69.

=Bertram=, bishop of Bordeaux, 121-124, 134-138, 190, 193, 194.

=Berulf=, Duke, 137, 159, 197.

=Bordeaux=, 47, 152, 163, 206, 214.

=Bourges=, 13, 35, 92, 139, 140, 159, 160, 163, 184, 185, 211, 244.

=Bretons=, 35, 76, 85, 86, 128, 211.

=Bricius=, 21-23.

=Brunhilda=, 89, 90, 99, 106, 115, 119, 122, 146, 178, 192, 208, 212, 213, 214.

=Buccelenus=, 69, 79.

=Burgundians=, 30, 31, 38, 44, 47, 55, 95-96.

=Cæsarea=, 6.

=Cæsaria=, 83.

=Cambrai=, 31, 49.

=Candes=, 15.

=Carthage=, 228-230.

=Cato=, the priest, 77-79, 84, 90, 92.

=Cautinus=, bishop of Clermont, 77-84, 90, 92, 233.

=Cellula= Sancti Maxentii, 46.

=Celsus=, the patrician, 87.

=Châlons= [sur-Saône], 131, 133, 189, 205, 212, 219, 235.

=Chararic=, 49.

=Charibert=, King, 75, 85, 87, 88, 116, 134, 135, 213, 220.

=Charigisil=, xxiii.

=Charigysel=, chamberlain of Sigibert, 100.

=Chedinus=, Duke, 231.

=Childebert=, son of Clovis, 54, 58, 60, 63-67, 69, 85, 99, 152.

=Childebert II=, son of Sigibert, 106, 122, 134, 145, 153, 158-160, 164, 173, 175, 191, 194, 197, 205, 208-220, 221, 238, 243.

=Childeric=, 31, 33, 35, 36.

=Chilperic=, King, xvi, xxv, 75, 87-166, 173, 174, 192.

=Chlogio=, 31.

=Chlotsinda=, 75, 95.

=Chonoober=, count of the Bretons, 85, 86.

=Chramnus=, 75, 79, 82, 83, 85, 86.

=Chrocus=, 13.

=Chrodield=, 236-243.

=Chrodinus=, 156.

=Chundo=, 235.

=Chuppa=, 232.

=Clermont=, ix, 12, 13, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 44, 47, 54, 66, 77-79, 82, 92, 97-98, 113, 158, 260.

=Cloderic=, 47.

=Clodomer=, 39, 54, 55, 56, 63-65, 69, 120.

=Clothar=, 54-58, 63-67, 69, 75, 79-88, 118, 130, 151-152, 157, 215, 220.

=Clothar=, son of Chilperic, 174, 189, 194, 217, 235, 246.

=Clotilda=, 38-41, 50, 55, 56, 63-65, 75, 80.

=Clovis=, xiv, xxii, xxiv, 31, 33, 36-50, 53, 54, 71, 76, 105.

=Clovis=, son of Chilperic, 90, 139, 194.

=Cologne=, 29, 48, 261.

=Cush=, 8.

=Deoteria=, 66-67.

=Desideratus=, bishop of Verdun, 67.

=Desiderius=, Duke, 114, 159, 160, 175, 185, 197, 201, 205-206, 233.

=Dijon=, 42, 44, 65, 85, 92, 110.

=Ebarchius= the recluse, 150-151.

=Eberulf=, 178-181, 182, 197.

=Egidius=, bishop of Rheims, 158-160, 175, 210, 243.

=Enoch=, 7.

=Erpo=, Duke, 118.

=Eufronius=, 84, 88, 139.

=Eulalius=, 233-235.

=Eusebius=, 6, 15, 21, 211.

=Eusebius= [of Vercellæ], 132.

=Farro=, 49.

=Fasti= Consulares, 31.

=Felix=, bishop of Nantes, 76, 109, 140, 154-155.

=Firmin=, 82.

=Flavian=, _domesticus_, 212, 232, 237.

=Franks=, 26-32, 56, 66, 84 _et passim_.

=Fredegunda=, 90, 100, 115, 116, 122, 130, 131, 161-163, 173-178, 186, 194, 197, 201, 216, 245.

=Gaganus= (Khan), 91.

=Galen=, 114, 125.

=Gallus=, xi, 77, 78, 82, 252-254, 260-262.

=Galsuenda=, 90, 214.

=Germanus=, bishop of Paris, 100, 112.

=Godomar=, 55-56.

=Gogo=, 133.

=Goths=, 26, 31, 35, 36, 37, 44, 46, 47, 66, 68, 89, 163-165.

=Gregory= of Tours, Education, xii. Family, x, 109-111, 250-256, 260-262. Life, ix. Religion, xix. Style, xiii, 1, 5, 254. Superstition, xi, 10 _et passim_. Works, xv, 119-124, 132, 134, 141, 194, 212-218, 247, 254.

=Gregory=, bishop of Langres, xi, 60, 63, 65, 84.

=Gregory=, the Great, 227.

=Grippo=, legate to the emperor, 228-232.

=Gundobad=, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44, 53.

=Gundovald=, 157, 175, 176, 182-184, 190.

=Gunthram=, King, 75, 85, 87, 89, 91, 109, 125, 145, 153, 156, 159, 173, 174, 175, 178, 180, 181, 182, 185, 189, 194, 205, 208-218, 220, 221, 238.

=Gunthram= Boso, 108, 114-118, 125, 127, 131, 157, 158, 175, 176, 183, 184, 197, 208-210, 219.

=Hermenfred=, 54, 56-58.

=Hilarius=, St., 15, 46, 53, 132, 173.

=Hospicius= the recluse, 147-150.

=Huns=, 25, 26, 87, 90.

=Ingoberga=, 87.

=Ingunda=, 75, 76.

=Injuriosus=, bishop of Tours, 75, 76.

=Jerome=, 6, 15, 21, 249.

=Jews=, 82, 113, 155, 181, 189.

=John=, the Pope, 126.

=Justina=, 236.

=Juvencus=, 15.

=Latium=, 66.

=Leo=, 60-63.

=Leocadius=, 13.

=Leonastus=, 112.

=Leudast=, 115, 134-140, 160-162.

=Leudeghisel=, 182-185.

=Limoges=, 128, 214.

=Loire=, 17.

=Lombards=, 76, 95-97, 217, 219, 220, 230.

=Lupus=, Duke, 145.

=Lyons=, 44, 55, 92, 94, 110, 145, 218.

=Macliavus=, 76, 119.

=Magnovald=, 199-200.

=Mans=, 108, 151, 244.

=Marcus= the referendary, 128, 130, 158.

=Marileif=, 115, 181, 182.

=Marseilles=, 41, 98, 109, 114, 145, 159, 218, 244.

=Martianus= [Capella], 248.

=Martin=, St., x, xii, xvi, xvii, xx, 14, 15-17, 21, 33-34, 67, 75, 85, 86, 111, 112, 115, 120, 152, 173, 178, 189, 193, 220, 221, 254, 256.

=Maxentius=, 46.

=Merovech=, 31.

=Merovech=, son of Chilperic, 90, 106, 114-118, 119, 123, 124, 125, 135, 194.

=Metz=, 25, 26, 78, 210, 212, 230.

=Milan=, 230.

=Mummolus= the patrician, 95-97, 114, 126, 157-158, 162-163, 172, 177, 183-185, 191.

=Munderic=, 58, 59, 60.

=Narses=, 69, 79.

=Nicæa=, 6.

=Nicetius=, bishop of Lyons, xi, 110, 125, 192.

=Nicetius=, husband of Gregory’s niece, 115.

=Nile=, 9.

=Noah=, 8.

=Orleans=, 26, 35, 55, 56, 87, 172, 178, 189.

=Orosius=, 6, 8, 15, 21, 31, 105.

=Palladius=, Count, 94.

=Palladius=, bishop of Saintes, 190, 193-194, 201.

=Paris=, 47, 63, 75, 85, 87, 88, 99, 119, 152, 154, 158, 160, 163, 166, 189, 207, 208, 213, 245.

=Parthenius=, 70, 71.

=Pavia=, 231.

=Pelagius=, 200.

=Peter=, Gregory’s brother, 109-110.

=Poitiers=, 45, 46, 85, 97, 106, 108, 115, 127, 140, 158, 159, 165, 175, 181, 182, 208, 213, 220, 223, 236-243.

=Prætextatus=, bishop of Rouen, 119-124, 177, 197, 217.

=Priscus=, a Jew, 146-147, 155.

=Quintian=, 44.

=Radegunda=, 57, 158, 205, 237, 239, 240, 242.

=Ragnachar=, 36, 49.

=Ragnemod=, bishop of Paris, 114, 121, 158.

=Rauching=, 106-108, 208.

=Red Sea=, 9, 10.

=Remi=, 40, 41.

=Renatus= Frigeridus, 27, 30.

=Rheims=, 85, 87, 124.

=Richared=, king of Spain, 201, 205, 210, 216.

=Riculf=, 114, 136-140.

=Riculf= the sub-deacon, 136-140.

=Riguntha=, 163-165, 175, 177, 185, 221, 222.

=Roccelenus=, 108.

=Romans=, 35.

=Rouen=, 99, 106, 160.

=Sagittarius=, 96, 125-127, 128, 182-185.

=Saintes=, 88, 165.

=Sallust=, 83.

=Salunius=, 96, 125-127, 128.

=Salvius=, bishop of Alvi, 133, 140, 141, 169-172.

=Saturninus=, 12.

=Saxons=, 35, 79, 83-84, 96, 97, 118, 186.

=Sedulius=, 133, 166.

=Senlis=, 154, 166, 212, 213, 215.

=Severus=, Sulpicius, 21.

=Siagrius=, 35, 36, 49.

=Sichar=, 211-212.

=Sigibert= the lame, 47, 48.

=Sigibert=, King, 75, 87, 89, 90, 94, 97-100, 109, 118, 173, 191, 213, 215, 220, 256.

=Sigivald=, 66.

=Silvester=, kinsman of Gregory, 110.

=Soissons=, 37, 86, 87, 100, 106, 130, 154, 223.

=Stephen=, St., 25.

=Suevi=, 24, 118.

=Sulpicius= Alexander, 27.

=Sygismund=, 54-56, 120.

=Tangiers=, 25.

=Tauredunum=, 91.

=Tetradia=, 233-235.

=Tetricus=, bishop of Langres, 109-111, 192.

=Theodoald=, Theodovald, 71, 77, 78, 83.

=Theodobert=, King, 54, 57, 58, 60, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 250.

=Theodobert=, son of Chilperic, 116, 135.

=Theodomer=, 31.

=Theodore=, bishop of Marseilles, 153, 157, 192, 194, 218.

=Theodoric=, son of Clovis, 38, 47, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 66, 70, 254, 261.

=Theodoric= the Great, 54, 68.

=Theodosian= Law, 97.

=Thrasamund=, 24.

=Thuringia=, 31, 33, 38, 54, 56-57, 79.

=Tolbiac=, 58.

=Toulouse=, 44, 47, 177, 182.

=Tournai=, 99, 100, 139, 246.

=Tours=, x, 16, 22, 23, 33, 44, 45, 47, 50, 63, 75-79, 84, 85, 86, 88, 97, 106, 108, 115, 118, 121, 128, 134-140, 153, 159, 160, 175, 181, 186, 199, 205, 206, 208, 211, 213, 220, 231, 246, 268.

=Trèves=, 29, 31, 60, 70, 261.

=Trinity=, 53, 68, 132.

=Ursus=, 98.

=Vandals=, 24, 25, 30.

=Vannes=, 76.

=Vase= of Soissons, 37.

=Vaso= Galatæ, 14.

=Vectius= Epagatus, 13, 260.

=Verdun=, 67, 70, 186.

=Victor=, 7, 236, 244.

=Vienne=, 29, 42, 43, 56.

=Virgil=, 97, 249.

=Visigard=, 66, 67.

=Vouillé=, 46, 50.

=Vulfilaic=, xxii, 194-196.

=Waddo=, major-domo, 165, 183-185, 222, 223, 243.

=Wilichar=, 85.

=Zoroaster=, 8.

=Zülpich=, 47.

FOOTNOTES:

[100] Not exhaustive.

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