Gregory of Tours

noun

1. Saint, a.d. 538?–594, Frankish bishop and historian.

Gregory of Tours

noun

1. Gregory of Tours, Saint?538?594MFrankishRELIGION: bishopHISTORY: historianRELIGION: saint Saint. ?538–?594 ad , Frankish bishop and historian. His Historia Francorum is the chief source of knowledge of 6th-century Gaul. Feast day: Nov 17

Example Sentences

He had a biography of Cortés; a translation of Gregory of Tours; a study of Victorian murderesses, put out by the Harvard University Press.

From Literature

Those who were not doing the chi-ro page were carefully copying out the Historia Francorum of Gregory of Tours, or the Legenda Aurea, or the Jeu d’Echecs Moralist, or a Treatise of Hawkynge—that is, if they were not engaged upon the Ars Magna of the magician Lully or the Speculum Majus by the greatest of all magicians.

From Literature

The belief was also popularised by Saint Gregory of Tours, a sixth century Frankish bishop, who wrote: "They are wide at the base and narrow at the top in order that the wheat might be cast into them through a tiny opening, and these granaries are to be seen to the present day."

From BBC

Lake Evidence Says Yes In the sixth century, Gregory of Tours, a chronicler of the Germanic people known as the Franks, told of an extraordinary event in what is now Switzerland, where the Rhone River spills into Lake Geneva.

From New York Times

Two accounts of the disaster, one by Gregory of Tours and the other by Marius of Avenches, have survived.

From Economist