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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 10, Of the Aforesaid Nuns Reconciled with the Church at This Council
At the same council Basina, daughter of King Chilperic, who, as I have related, was excommunicated with Clotild,1 prostrated herself before the bishops, beseeching their pardon, and promising to return to the monastery, there to live in charity with the abbess, and no more to transgress the Rule. But Clotild protested that so long as Leubovera remained abbess of the monastery, she would never set foot within its walls. The king begged that both might be pardoned, so they were received into communion, and bidden to return to Poitiers. Basina, as I have said, was to re-enter the monastery; Clotild was to live on an estate granted to her by the king, and formerly belonging to Waddo, of whom I have spoken above.2
Notes
- Cf. ch. 16, above.
- Cf. VI. 32 (45); VII. 28, 34, 38, 39, 43.