History of the Franks (Decem Libri Historiarum)
Gregory of Tours · 594 · Latin West · public-domain-original
4 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
People it attests
- Clovis I 1 claim
- Saint Clotilde 1 claim
- Saint Remigius 1 claim
Events it narrates
Ernest Brehaut's English translation (Columbia University Press, 1916). The one narrative source for Merovingian Gaul, by a bishop of Tours who was descended from senators and wrote, he says, in bad Latin because nobody was left who could read good. Book II carries the baptism of Clovis and makes Clotilde the cause of it. He is credulous, partisan and indispensable, and there is nothing to check him against.