Gregory of Tours (30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of the area that had been previously referred to as Gaul by the Romans. ... The Historia Francorum is a central source for early Frankish history, representing the period of transition from late Roman ...

« St. Gregory of Tours », dans Catholic encyclopedia, disponible en ligne sur le site newadvent.org. Charles Lelong, Grégoire de Tours. ... Historia Francorum : photographie d'un parchemin du VIII e-IX e siècle en écriture onciale, le manuscrit latin 17655, ...

Riothamus (also spelled Riutimus or Riotimus) was a Romano-British military leader, who was active circa AD 470. He fought against the Goths in alliance with the declining Western Roman Empire.He is called "King of the Britons" by the 6th-century historian Jordanes, but the extent of his realm is unclear.Some Arthurian scholars identify Riothamus as one of the possible …

Aegidius (died 464 or 465) was the ruler of the short-lived Kingdom of Soissons from 461 to 464/465 AD. Before his ascension, he became magister militum per Gallias (Master of the Soldiers for Gaul) serving under Majorian, in 458 AD. An ardent supporter of Majorian, Aegidius rebelled against Ricimer when he assassinated Majorian and replaced him with Libius …

Bede (/ b iː d / BEED; Old English: Bǣda, Bēda; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England).

L'Histoire des Francs est une œuvre de Grégoire de Tours, évêque de Tours et historien, au VI e siècle. Le titre originel de l'ouvrage est Dix livres d’histoire (Decem libros historiarum).Il s'agit d'une histoire universelle du monde et de l'Église, écrite dans une perspective eschatologique, de la Genèse aux règnes des rois francs, en 572, à laquelle s'ajoute un ensemble de ...

Clotaire I er dit le Vieux (ou Chlotar, Clothar, Chlotochar ou Hlothar), né vers 498 [1], mort le 29 novembre ou le 31 décembre 561 [2], est un roi franc de la dynastie des Mérovingiens, fils de Clovis, roi des Francs.. Clotaire devient roi de Soissons en 511, roi d'Orléans en 524 [3], roi des Burgondes [note 1] en 534, roi des Francs de l'Est en 555, roi de Paris en 558 ; entre 558 et …

Chlothar II (May/June 584 – 18 October 629), was king of Neustria and king of the Franks, and the son of Chilperic I and his third wife, Fredegund.He started his reign as an infant under the regency of his mother, who was in an uneasy alliance with Chlothar's uncle King Guntram of Burgundy, who died in 592. Chlothar took power upon the death of his mother in 597; though …

The French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country (Basque: Iparralde (lit. 'the Northern Region'), French: Pays basque, Spanish: País Vasco francés) is a region lying on the west of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.Since 1 January 2017, it constitutes the Basque Municipal Community (Basque: Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa; French: Communauté …

Szombathely is the oldest recorded city in Hungary.It was founded by the Romans in 45 AD under the name of Colonia Claudia Savariensum (Claudius' Colony of Savarians), and it was the capital of the Pannonia Superior province of the Roman Empire.It lay close to the important "Amber Road" trade route.The city had an imperial residence, a public bath and an amphitheatre.