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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 10, 22. Concerning the Murder of Childeric the Saxon
Now Childeric the Saxon,1 who had been guilty of manifold crimes, murder, riot, and many other evil deeds, betook himself to the city of Auch, where his wife had a property. Informed of his misdeeds, the king commanded that he should be put to death; but one night he made himself so drunk that he could no longer breathe, and was found dead in his bed. It was said that he had been the ringleader in the crime, above recounted, by which the bishops were maltreated at Clotild’s command in the church of the blessed Hilary.2 If it was even so, God thus avenged the wrong of His servants.
Notes
- Cf. VII. 3.
- Cf. IX. 41.