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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 8, 11. Of the Door-keepers, and the Death of Boantus
A certain door-keeper denounced another in these words: ‘My lord king, this man hath taken a bribe, consenting to thy destruction.’ The door-keeper whom he had accused was arrested, flogged, and subjected to many kinds of torture, but disclosed nothing of the matter on which he was being examined. It was freely said that this accusation was the work of envy and foul play, because the door-keeper against whom the charge was brought was a favourite with the king.
Ansovald, nourishing some suspicion, I know not what, departed from the king without taking leave. But the king returned to Chalon, and ordered Boantus,1 who had ever been faithless to him, to be put to the sword. He was surrounded in his house, and perished at the hands of the king’s men; his property was confiscated.
Notes
- Nothing is known of this man.