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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 5, 16. Of the Death of Macliav
The following events befell in Brittany. Macliav and Bodic, counts1 of the Bretons, had sworn a mutual oath that whichever of them survived the other would defend the sons of the deceased like his own. Bodic died, leaving a son named Theuderic. Him Macliav, forgetting his oath, drove from his country; he then usurped his father’s kingdom, and for a long time Theuderic lived the wandering life of an exile. But God had compassion upon him; he gathered about him a band of Bretons and fell upon Macliav, putting him to the sword, together with his son Jacob. He thus brought back into his own power the part of the kingdom which his father had ruled. Waroch, son of Macliav, maintained his right to the rest.
Notes
- Meaning ‘chiefs’.