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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 2, 43. Of the Death of Clovis
After these events Clovis died at Paris,1 and was buried in the church of the Holy Apostles which he had himself built, with Clotild his queen. It was the fifth year after the battle of Vouillé that he passed away. And all the days of his reign were thirty years, and of his own age forty-five. From the passing of the holy Martin to the passing of Clovis, which was in the eleventh year of the episcopate of Licinius, bishop of Tours, there are counted one hundred and twelve years. After the death of her lord, Queen Clotild came to Tours, and, save for rare visits to Paris, here she remained all the days of her life, distinguished for her great modesty and kindliness.
Notes
- In 511.