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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 6, 20. Of the Death of Duke Chrodin
This year1 died Chrodin, a man eminent in goodness and piety, and exceeding charitable; he relieved the poor; he right lavishly endowed churches and sustained the clergy. He would often lay out country estates, planting vineyards, building houses, and putting land under cultivation; then he would invite bishops whose revenues were small, and after entertaining them at a banquet, distribute among them all the buildings, with the labourers and tilled lands, together with plate, hangings, utensils, servants and slaves, addressing them in this wise: ‘Let all these things belong to the Church, that when the poor are thereby relieved, they may obtain grace for me at the hands of God.’ Many other things of good report have we heard concerning this man which it were over long to relate. He passed away when he was over seventy years of age.
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- In 582.