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History of the Franks

St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927

Book 10, 17. Of Their Excommunication

Afterwards, when judgement had been made known, the nuns were suspended from communion, and the abbess was restored to her monastery. Then the nuns went to King Childebert, and, heaping wrong on wrong, denounced to him certain persons as not merely having carnal relation with the abbess but even bearing daily messages to his enemy Fredegund. When the king heard this he sent and had these persons brought to him in chains. But when after examination no guilt was found in them, they were bidden depart.