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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 7, 28. How the Army Advanced
After these things, the army,1 moving out of Poitiers, advanced in pursuit of Gundovald. Many inhabitants of Tours had followed it in hope of plunder; but the men of Poitiers fell upon them; some of them were slain, and the greater part went home stripped of all that they had. Those of the same city who had previously accompanied the army now also withdrew. The host then moving forward to the river Dordogne, awaited news of Gundovald, who, as I have said above, was now joined by Duke Desiderius, Bladast, and Waddo, mayor of the palace to the princess Rigunth. First in his esteem were Bishop Sagittarius2 and Mummolus; he had promised Sagittarius the see of Toulouse.
Notes
- Guntram’s army; cf. ch. 24 above.
- Bishop of Gap; cf. V. 20.