And afterwards their youngest child died, worn out with lingering illness.

Overwhelmed with grief, they bare him from their house at Braine to Paris, and had him buried in the basilica of St.Denis.

As for Chlodebert, they placed him on a litter, carried him to the basilica of St.Medard at Soissons, and, laying him before the tomb of the saint, offered vows for his recovery; but in the middle of the night, enfeebled and exhausted, he gave up the ghost.

They buried him in the basilica of the holy martyrs Crispin and Crispinian.

Then King Chilperic showed great largess to the churches and the monasteries and the poor." (Gregory of Tours, V.
xxxv.) It is doubtful whether the maternal grief of Fredegonde were quite so pious and so strictly in accordance with morality as it has been represented by Gregory of Tours; but she was, without doubt, passionately sincere.