Council of Berny

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Council of Berny

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St. Gregory of Tours
…tried for slander at the council of Berny-Rivière in 580. Partly because of the intervention of his friend Venantius Fortunatus, who delivered a poetic panegyric of Chilperic at the time of the trial, Gregory was acquitted. Yet, despite this episode and Gregory’s criticism of Chilperic (whom he called “the Nero…
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…tried for slander at the council of Berny-Rivière in 580. Partly because of the intervention of his friend Venantius Fortunatus, who delivered a poetic panegyric of Chilperic at the time of the trial, Gregory was acquitted. Yet, despite this episode and Gregory’s criticism of Chilperic (whom he called “the Nero…
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