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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 9, 7. Of the Removal of Ennodius, and of the Gascons
Ennodius,1 who held office as duke of Tours and Poitiers, now received also the government of Aire and Lescar. But the counts of Tours and Poitiers went to King Childebert and obtained his withdrawal from their cities. The duke, as soon as he heard that he had been removed, hastened to visit the other cities, but while there received an order to depart. Restored to leisure, he returned home, and devoted himself to private affairs.
The Gascons now sallied from their mountains and descended into the plains, where they ravaged the fields and vineyards, burned the houses, and carried off many captives with their flocks and herds. Duke Austrovald2 took the field against them several times, but could wring scant retribution from them. The Goths, in revenge for the devastation wrought during the previous year in Septimania by King Guntram’s army,3 broke into the province of Arles, took much booty, and carried off captives, advancing as far as the tenth milestone out of the city. They sacked the strong place called Ugernum,4 overcoming those within, and destroying all that they had without meeting resistance. After this they returned home.
Notes
- Cf. VIII. 26.
- Cf. VIII. 45; there count of Toulouse.
- Cf. VIII. 45.
- Cf. VIII. 30. The modern name is Beaucaire.