Guettée, Histoire de l’Église de France, 1847, vol. 2, p. 109.
145
Keller, Ch., Étude critique sur le texte de la vie de Ste Geneviève, 1881; also A. SS. Boll., St Genovefa, Jan. 3.
146
Darboy, Mgr, Sainte Clothilde, 1865; also A. SS. Boll., St Chrothildis, June 3.
147
Giesebrecht, W., Fränkische Geschichte des Gregorius, 1851, Einleitung xviii.
148
Gregorius Tur., De Gloria Confessorum, ch. 106 (in Migne, Patrol. Cursus Completus, vol. 71).
149
Gregorius Tur., De Gloria Martyrum, ch. 5 (in Migne, Patrol. Cursus Compl., vol. 71).
150
A. SS. Boll., St Radegundis, Aug. 13 (contains both these accounts).
151
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, edit. Nisard, 1887.
152
Gregorius Tur., Hist. Franc. bk 9, ch. 42.
153
Gregorius Tur., Hist. Franc. bk 3, ch. 7; Fortunatus, Vita, ch. 2-4.
154
Giesebrecht, W., Fränkische Geschichte des Gregorius, 1851, appendix.
155
Fortunatus, Vita, ch. 3.
156
Ibid., ch. 10.
157
Ibid., ch. 5.
158
Baudonivia, Vita, ch. 2.
159
A. SS. Boll., St Medardus, June 8.
160
Commentators are much exercised by this summary breaking of the marriage tie; some urge that Radegund’s union had not been blessed by the Church. In the A. SS. it is argued that the Gallic bishop Medardus in pronouncing her divorce acted in ignorance of certain canons of the Church.
161
Fortunatus, Vita, c. 10.
162
Ibid., ch. 11; Baudonivia, Vita, ch. 6.
163
Ibid., Vita, ch. 12.
164
Stadler und Heim, Vollständiges Heiligenlexicon, Johannes, nr 52; Gregorius Tur., De Gloria Confessorum, ch. 23.
165
Fortunatus, Vita, ch. 26.
166
Lucchi, Vie de Venantius Fortunatus, ch. 85 (in Fortunatus, Opera poetica, edit. Nisard, 1887).
167
Gregorius Tur., De Gloria Confessorum, ch. 106.
168
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, edit. Nisard, 1887, note 111, 3, p. 214.
169
Gérard, P. A. F., Histoire des Francs d’Austrasie, 1864, vol. 1, p. 272.
170
Gregorius Tur., Hist. Franc. bk 9, ch. 40.
171
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, edit. Nisard, 1887, note 11, 1, p. 76.
172
Gregorius Tur., Hist. Franc. bk 8, ch. 40.
173
Gregorius Tur., Hist. Franc. bk 7, ch. 36.
174
Baudonivia, Vita, c. 11.
175
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, edit. Nisard, 1887, bk 10, nr 9.
176
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, edit. Nisard, bk 2, nr 16.
177
Ibid., bk 6, nr 1.
178
Mone, F. J., Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters, 1853-5, vol 1, 101; Fortunatus, Opera poetica, edit. Nisard, note, p. 76.
179
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, Appendix, nr 2.
180
Ibid., bk 8, nr 1.
181
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, note 9, p. 213.
182
Ibid., Appendix, nr 16.
183
Ibid., nr 31.
184
Nisard, Ch., Des poesies de Radegonde attribuées jusqu’ici à Fortunat, 1889, p. 5.
185
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, edit. Nisard, 1887, note 111, 2, 3, etc., p. 284.
186
Ibid., ‘De Excidio Thoringiae,’ Appendix, nr 1.
187
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, Appendix, nr 3.
188
Ibid., bk 8, nr 8.
189
Ibid., bk 8, nr 6.
190
Ibid., bk 11, nr 10.
191
Ibid., bk 11, nr 9.
192
Fortunatus, Opera poetica, bk 11, nr 11.
193
Ibid., bk 11, nr 22.
194
Ibid., bk 11, nr 8.
195
Ibid., bk 11, nr 6.
196
Ibid., Appendix, nr 21.
197
Ibid., bk 11, nr 2.
198
Ibid., bk 11, nr 7.
199
Ibid., Appendix, nr 15.
200
Gregorius Tur., De Gloria Confessorum, ch. 106.
201
Gregorius Tur., Hist. Franc., bk 9, chs. 39-44; bk 10, chs. 15-17, 20.
202
Gregorius Tur., Hist. Franc., bk 9, ch. 39.
203
Gregorius Tur., Hist. Franc., bk 9, ch. 41.
204
Ibid., bk 10, ch. 15.
205
Gregorius Tur., Hist. Franc., bk 9, ch. 33; bk 10, ch. 12.
206
A. SS. Boll., St Vedastus, Feb. 6.
207
A. SS. Boll., St Eleutherius, Feb. 20, Vita 1, ch. 3 (Potthast, Wegweiser: ‘Vita auctore anonymo sed antiquo’).
208
Gérard, P. A. F., Histoire des Francs d’Austrasie, 1864, vol. 1, p. 384.
209
Comp. throughout A. SS. Boll., St Wandregisilus, July 22; St Waningus, Jan. 9, etc.
210
Drapeyron, L., La reine Brunehilde, 1867.
211
Gregorius, Papa, Epistolae, liber 9, epist. 109 (in Migne, Patrol. Cursus Compl. vol. 77).
212
St Columban who went abroad and died in 615 should be kept distinct from St Columba who died in 597, sometimes also called Columban. Both of them wrote rules for monks (cf. Dictionary of Nat. Biography).
