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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 8, 37. How a Son Was Born to Childebert
After these events a son was born to King Childebert and received from the sacred font by Magneric, bishop of Trèves.1 The boy was named Theudebert. King Guntram had such joy of the event that then and there he sent envoys bearing many gifts and this message: ‘Through this child God, by the loving-kindness of His divine majesty, shall raise up the kingdom of the Franks, if but his father will live for him, and he live for his father.’
Notes
- Cf. above, ch. 12.