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History of the Franks

St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927

Book 7, Of the Conflict Between the Men of Chartres and the Men of Orleans

Now when Chilperic was no more, having at last met the death which he had so long called down on himself, the men of Orleans and Blois joined forces and fell upon those of Châteaudun, overwhelming them by a surprise attack. Houses, stores of corn, and all that could not readily be moved, they burned; the flocks and herds they drove off, and they took with them everything which they could carry. When they were departed, the men of Châteaudun, with the other inhabitants of the territory of Chartres, followed them up and requited them in the same measure with which they had meted, leaving nothing within their houses or without, yea, nothing of the very houses themselves. But as the feud raged on, fanned by new quarrels, and the men of Orleans began threatening war for a new attack, the counts interposed, and there was truce until the case could be properly heard; they were to keep the peace until the day when judgement could be given, and the side convicted of unjustly starting the affray should pay a composition in due course of justice. So was an end made to this fighting.