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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 7, 5. How King Guntram Came to Paris
Queen Fredegund, as her friends advised her, sent envoys to King Guntram with this message: ‘Let my lord come and take the kingdom of his brother. I have’, she said, ‘a tender infant, whom I long to place in his arms; myself, too, I would submit to his governance.’ When Guntram received news of his brother’s death, he wept most bitterly. But when his lamentation was stilled he levied an army and marched to Paris. He had already been received within the walls, when King Childebert, his nephew, arrived from another quarter.