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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 3, 8. Of the Death of Hermanfled
This king on his return home invited Hermanfrid to come to him, giving a personal pledge for his safety; he then enriched him with gifts of honour. It befell upon a day, as they walked together along the walls of the city of Zülpich, that Hermanfrid was pushed by some person unknown, and fell headlong from the summit to the earth beneath, there giving up the ghost. Who cast him down we cannot say, but many declare that the guile of Theuderic was very manifest in the deed.