Tongeren?
| Type: | Elite presence | ||||||||||||
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| Certainty: | Region Uncertain | ||||||||||||
| From: | 457 | ||||||||||||
| To: | 465 | ||||||||||||
| Town: | Tongeren | ||||||||||||
| Original text: | [Childericus] Conperto autem, quod eum etiam interficere vellent, Thoringiam petiit, relinquens ibi hominem sibi carum, qui virorum furentium animus verbis linibus mollire possit [...] Abiens ergo in Thoringiam apud regem Bysinum uxoremque eius Basinam latuit [...] a Thoringia regressus, in regno suo est restitutus | ||||||||||||
| Translation text: | [Childeric] discovered that they intended to assassinate him and he fled to Thuringia. He left behind a close friend of his who was able to soothe the minds of his angry subjects with his honeyed words [...] Childeric then set out for Thuringia and took refuge with King Bisinus and his wife Basina [after 8 years] he left Thuringia and was restored to his throne. | ||||||||||||
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| Publications: | Halsall 2001: 123-127 Wood 1994: 37-40 |
Sources
| Name | Title | Reference | From | To |
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| Gregorius, Historiarum | Gregorii episcopi Turonensis historiarum libri decem | 2.12 | 573 | 594 |