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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 3, 35. Of the Death of Sirivald
This bishop dying in the above-named town, one of the citizens, Agyric, succeeded to his throne. But Syagrius, his son, remembering his father’s wrongs, how he was accused by Syrivald before King Theuderic, and not only robbed but even tortured, fell upon Syrivald with an armed band and slew him in the following manner. On a morning of dense fog, when the shades of darkness were only just dissolving, and hardly might things be distinguished, he came to Syrivald’s estate named Floriacus in the territory of Dijon; a friend of his coming out of the house, they slew him, by mistake for Syrivald. They then set off home, believing that they had triumphed over their enemy; but one of his slaves told them that they had not killed the master of the house, but only one of his household. They turned back to seek Syrivald himself, and finding the chamber in which he usually slept, for a long time made repeated efforts to force the door, against which they could do nothing. They then broke down the wall upon one side, and effecting an entry, put Syrivald to the sword. It was after the death of Theuderic that he was slain.