The Franks, from Their First Appearance in History to the Death of King Pepin |
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Alemanni Annal appears army atque Austrasia barbarians battle Bavarians bishops Boniface brother Brunhilda Burgundians Burgundy Cæs Cæsar Carl Martel Carloman Carlovingian CHAP Charibert Childebert Chilperic Chilperic II Christian Chron Church clergy Clotaire Clotaire II Clovis Conf conquest Cont Dagobert death defeated Duke Ebroin Emperor endeavoured enemies Epit father favour Francorum Frankish empire Frankish kings Franks Fred Fredeg Fredegunda freemen Gaul Germ German Goths Greg Gregory of Tours Gripho Gundobald Guntram Haistulph hands heathen Hist honour Ibid influence ingenuus kingdom land Langobards leodis Lex Sal major-domus mayors Merovingian Mett military monarch murder nation Neustrians Pepin person Pope possession priests prince quæ quam quod received reign Rhine Ripuarians Roman Rome royal Salian Salic law Saxons says seigniors Sigebert slave sols Suabians subjects Syagrius Tacitus territory Theoderic Theudebert throne Thuringia tion tribes vassals victory Visigoths Waifar warriors weregeld whole
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Page 91 - And thus," says Gregory of Tours,0 in the same chapter in which he relates the twofold murder of his kindred, " God daily prostrated his enemies before him and increased his kingdom, because he walked before him with an upright heart, and did what was pleasing in his eyes...
Page 12 - Aleam, quod mirere, sobrii inter seria exercent tanta lucrandi perdendive temeritate, ut, cum omnia defecerunt, extremo ac novissimo jactu de libertate ac de corpore contendant.
Page 462 - Nero subdidit reos, et quaesitissimis poenis adfecit, quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellabat. Auctor nominis ejus Christus, Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio adfectus erat ; repressaque in praesens exitiabilis superstitio rursum erumpebat, non modo per Judaeam, originem ejus mali, sed per urbem etiam, quo cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluunt celebranturque.
Page 3 - Pollio Asinius parum diligenter parumque integra veritate compositos putat. cum Caesar pleraque, et quae per alios erant gesta, temere crediderit, et, quae per se, vel consulto vel etiam memoria lapsus, perperam ediderit : existimatque rescripturum et correcturum fuisse. Reliquit et ' de Analogia,' libros duos, et ' Anticatones ' totidem, ac praeterea poema, quod inscribitur 'Iter.
Page 442 - Simili modo placuit atque convenät, ut si cumque vicinos habens aut filios aut filias post obitum suum superstitutus fuerit, quamdiu filii advixerint terra habeant, sicut et lex salica habet. Et si subito filios defuncti fuerint, filia simili modo accipiant terras ipsas, sicut et filii si vivi fuissent aut habuissent. Et si moritur, frater alter superstitutus fuerit, frater terras accipiant non vicini.
Page 140 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 465 - ... et legitimos heredes eorum exheredant, ac per hoc plerosque ad flagitia et scelera propter inopiam, ad quam per hoc fuerint devoluti, perpetranda compellunt, ut quasi necessario furta et latrocinia exerceant, cui paterna rerum hereditas, ne ad eum perveniret, ab alio praerepta est" J ). The g an, Vita Ludovici c.
Page 413 - ... monasterium reddatur; eo modo, ut, si moriatur ille, cui pecunia commodata' fuit, ecclesia cum propria pecunia revestita
Page 436 - Verberare servum ac vinculis et opere coercere rarum : occidere solent, non disciplina et severitate, sed impetu et ira, ut inimicum, nisi quod impune est.
Page 362 - Deo propitio noster veniens ibi in palatio nostro una cum arma (al. arimannia) sua in manu nostra trustem et fidelitatem nobis visus est conjurasse, propterea per praesentem praeceptum decernimus ac jubemus ut deinceps memoratus ille in numero antrustionum computetur.