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    Gregory of Tours (born Georgius Florentius; 30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian...
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    Saint Martin and Gregory of Tours were from Tours. Tours was once part of Touraine, a former province of France. Tours was the first city of the silk industry...
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    Quoted by Réau 1955, p. 902 Gregory of Tours n.d., Book 2, Ch 14. May Viellard-Troiëkouroff, "La basilique de Saint-Martin de Tours de Perpetuus (470) d'après...
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  • Éditions Perrin, Paris, 1992. Gregory of Tours IV.3, pp. 197-8. Grégoire de Tours, Histoire, livre III, 6. Gregory of Tours, Decem Libri Historiarum, IV...
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  • He is best known from his appearance in the works of Gregory of Tours, and was an early progenitor of the Etichonid clan, from which the Habsburgs originate...
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    from a misreading of Gregory of Tours' Historia Francorum 5.4 (quoted above) and a confusion between Gregory of Tours and Pope Gregory, two contemporary...
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    Franks (category Historical ethnic groups of Europe)
    inhabitants of Aquitaine after that". Apart from the History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours, two early sources relate the mythological origin of the Franks:...
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    death of Chilperic and Gregory of Tours' writing of history' in The World of Gregory of Tours. Brill. pp. 337–350. Gregory of Tours. A History of the Franks...
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  • 580 dysentery epidemic in Gaul (category History of ancient medicine)
    was a large outbreak of a disease in Gaul (Francia) in the year 580. It is largely known from the writings of Gregory of Tours who claimed it was dysentery...
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    part of Roman Gaul. Most of early Merovingian history is based on the account of the 6th-century Gregory of Tours. The date of Childeric's accession is...
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  • of Tours was the ruler of the old Roman pagus Turonicus: the city of Tours and its hinterland, the Touraine. Under the Merovingians, counts at Tours were...
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    Chlodio (redirect from Chlodion of Franks)
    possibly a descendant of the Salian Franks, who Roman sources report to have settled within Texandria in the 4th century. Gregory of Tours reported that in...
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    all of their territory north of the Pyrenees save Septimania, and conquered the Bretons (according to Gregory of Tours) and made them vassals of the Franks...
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  • Syagrius (category Last of the Romans)
    the last ruler of a Roman rump state in northern Gaul, now called the Kingdom of Soissons. Gregory of Tours referred to him as King of the Romans. Syagrius's...
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    popularized in the West by Gregory of Tours, in his late 6th-century collection of miracles, De gloria martyrum (Glory of the Martyrs). Gregory claimed to have gotten...
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  • the accounts of Gregory of Tours, who depicts her as ruthlessly murderous and sadistically cruel, and she is known for the many stories of her cruelty...
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    Christian bishop Gregory of Tours had their versions. Reflecting the rise of Christianity and the factor of time, nature and the hand of man overcoming...
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    Clovis I (redirect from Clovis I of France)
    practice of translating Clovis' name as meaning "famous warrior" or "renowned in battle". However, scholars have pointed out that Gregory of Tours consequently...
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    a queen of Thuringia in the middle of the fifth century, by much later authors such as especially Gregory of Tours. However, because Gregory described...
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    " (Gregory of Tours, II.18); "In the fifth year of his [Clovis I's] reign Siagrius, king of the Romans, son of Egidius, had his seat in the city of Soissons...
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  • Riothamus (category Correspondents of Sidonius Apollinaris)
    472 AD (the latter being the year of emperor Anthemius' death). Gregory of Tours seems to react to the outcome of the battle between the Visigoths and...
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    [better source needed] The testimony of Gregory of Tours (died 594): "Thomas the Apostle, according to the narrative of his martyrdom is stated to have suffered...
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  • kingdoms of the Franks, but when he died, Sigebert and his three brothers divided them again. According to historian and bishop Gregory of Tours, Sigebert's...
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    Gundobad (category Year of birth uncertain)
    part of his reign is Gregory of Tours, who wrote almost a century later. According to Gregory, Gundobad set about ridding himself of his brothers. First...
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    details of this event have been passed down by Gregory of Tours, who recorded them many years later in the 6th century. The king's Catholic baptism was of immense...
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    Theodemer (Frankish king) (category Year of birth unknown)
    case Theodemer would have been a cousin of Arbogastes. Not much is known of Theodemer. According to Gregory of Tours a war broke out between the Franks and...
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  • writers sometimes described the Himyarites of South Arabia as Cushaeans and Ethiopians. Gregory of Tours claimed that Cush was the same person as the...
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    Flavius Aetius (magister militum) (category Last of the Romans)
    son-in-law of Aetius). Cited in Jones, p. 21. Gregory of Tours, ii.8; Jones, p. 21. Bury 1923, p. 241. Gregory of Tours, ii.8; Merobaudes, Carmina, iv, 42–46...
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    the sciences, literature, and law; he excelled in all these fields. Gregory of Tours reported that "in grammar, dialectic and rhetoric ... he was second...
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    timekeeping, Bishop Gregory of Tours described a constellation which he called the Greater Cross, which can be identified with stars of the constellation...
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