Then said his son to him, "Here be branches which were cut from a green tree, and are not yet wholly dried up: soon they will sprout forth again.

May it please God that he who hath wrought all this shall die as quickly!" Clovis considered these words as a menace, had both father and son beheaded, and took possession of their dominions.

Ragnacaire, king of the Franks of Cambrai, was the third to be attacked.

He had served Clovis against Syagrins, but Clovis took no account of that.

Ragnacaire, being beaten, was preparing for flight, when he was seized by his own soldiers, who tied his hands behind his back, and took him to Clovis along with his brother Riquier.
"Wherefore hast thou dishonored our race," said Clovis, "by letting thyself wear bonds ?" "Twere better to have died;" and cleft his skull with one stroke of his battle-axe.