Trier

Type:	Other
Certainty:	Certain
From:	411
To:	438
Town:	Trier
Original text:	Greg.Hist. 2.9: Treverorum civitas a Francis direpta incensaque est secunda inruptione.
Translation text:	Greg.Hist. 2.9 "The city of Trier was sacked and burnt by the Franks in a second attack" Fredegar 3.7 "The city of Trier was seized and burned by Franks because of the intrigue of one of the senatorial class, Lucius by name. Since the emperor Avitus was inclined to depravity and this Lucius had the most beautiful of all wives, Avitus, contriving to despoil the marriage bed because of the craving of his body, ordered all his servants to summon her. When Lucius' wife returned to him, she had been raped by Avitus. On the morrow, rising from his bed, Avitus said to Lucius: 'You have a beautiful warm bath, but you wash in the cold.' Lucius was angry at these things and with his connivance the city was seized and burned by the Franks"
Publications:	Woodruff 1987: 103-109

Sources

Name	Title	Reference	From	To
Gregorius, Historiarum	Gregorii episcopi Turonensis historiarum libri decem	2.9	573	594
Fredegarius, Chronicarum	Chronicarum quae dicuntur Fredegarii scholastici. Libri IV cum continuationibus	3.7	642	660