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, the Pippinids, soon to be called the Carolingians. It is the oldest surviving narrative source to do so. Much of what we know about the Pippinids’ seventh-century doings in Austrasia depends exclusively on this source and on two other works dealing with St Geretrud, the Virtutes Sanctae Geretrudis and the Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano . It is from this small corpus that we have learned how
This book provides a collection of documents in translation which brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. The collection of documents in translation includes Liber Historiae Francorum, Vita Domnae Balthidis, Vita Audoini Episcopi Rotomagensis, Acta Aunemundi, Passio Leudegarii, Passio Praejecti, and Vita Sanctae Geretrudis and the Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano. The Liber Historiae Francorum was written while a Merovingian king still ruled over the Franks and by someone geographically very close to the political centre of that realm. Late Merovingian hagiography tends to emphasise miracles which heal and eliminate the maladies of the life, and the Vita Audoini follows the pattern. The Vita Sanctae Geretrudis makes no mention at all of Columbanus and his mission among the Franks, a strange omission if the Irish were all one group. The Passio Praejecti provides information on the relationship between the politics of the locality and the politics of the centre, for a land dispute between Praejectus and Hector, the ruler of Marseilles, was heard at the royal court at Autun at Easter 675. The Passio Leudegarii has an overt peace-making element, although the issue of who was on which side is much clouded by the complexity of the political narrative.
This introduction presents an overview of the historical context, the translated histories and their authors and a discussion of Merovingian Latin. The eight texts translated in the book represent a selection from what is in fact a far wider range of written sources for Merovingian history. The eight texts includes Liber Historiae Francorum (LHF), Vita Domnae Balthidis, Vita Audoini Episcopi Rotomagensis, Acta Aunemundi, Passio Leudegarii, Passio Praejecti, Vita Sanctae Geretrudis and the Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano, and Annales Mettenses Priores.
place his death in 651 in Gerberding, Rise , pp. 50–66. 35 He will eventually become Dagobert II (676–79). 36 According to the Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano (Nivelles Supplement to the Vita Fursey Concerning
. C. Plummer, Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica , vol. I (Oxford, 1896 )(hereafter, Bede, HE ), p. 168, and Vita Fursei , ch. 9. 19 Bede, HE , III, ch. 18; Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano , ed. B. Krusch, MGH , SSRM , IV (hereafter Addit. Nivial. ), p. 449, and below, p. 327. See: A