![]() The manuscript is missing the last four chapters of Book 10 and parts of some chapters in books 1-6. This manuscript, Latin 17654 in the collections of the National Library of France and known by the designation B4, is one of the important early manuscripts of the Historia Francorum, along with the library's B5 and B2 in the Royal Library in Brussels, Belgium. The remaining five books, ending in 591 during the reign of King Guntram (also seen as Gontran, reigned 561-92), recount events that Gregory witnessed or of which he had personal knowledge. Books two, three, and four cover events in France from 397 to the death in late 575 of the Merovingian king Sigibert (or Sigebert) I. Book one begins with the Creation and ends with the death of Saint Martin of Tours in 397. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gregory's Historia Francorum (History of the Franks) is a major source for the history of France under the Merovingians (ruled from the late fifth century to 750). ![]() A Gallo-Roman who spoke Latin as his native language, he was ordained as a deacon in 563 and was bishop of Tours from 573 until his death in 594. Saint Gregory of Tours was born in 538 in what is now Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne region of central France. ![]()
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