| Type: | Elite presence |
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| Certainty: | Certain |
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| From: | 574 |
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| To: | 575 |
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| Town: | Tournai |
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| Original text: | His ita gestis, Samson, filius Chilperici regis iunior [...] Hic vero, cum Chilpericus rex Tornacum a fratre obsederetur, natus est [...] Qui baptizatus et ab ipso episcopo susceptus [...] Nam et mater eius Fredegundis in his diebus graviter egrotavit ... |
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| Translation text: | Samson, the younger son of Chilperic [...] was born while king Chilperic was being besieged in Tournai [...] the ceremony [of baptism] being performed by the Bishop himself [...] His mother Fredegund was herself seriously ill at the time ... |
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| Persons: |
| Role | Name | Reason type | Reason |
| King | Chilperic | Conflict war | Flees to Tournai during war Sigibert/Chilperic |
| Royal (other) | Samson | Other | birth |
| Bishop | | Other | Baptism |
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| Publications: | Wood 1994: 89 |
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