Gregory of Tours

American  

noun

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

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Gregory of Tours British  

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

Astronomer Wolfhard Schlosser and Historian Werner Bergmann of Ruhr-University Bochum, in West Germany, were led to their conclusion by the discovery of references to Sirius in the chronicles of a Frankish bishop, Gregory of Tours.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

One of them, Hygelac, the king whom Beowulf succeeded, is identified with a king named by the Frankish historian Gregory of Tours; the date is about A.D.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)

The Franks and the Gauls continued the same custom; and Gregory of Tours called these artificial-flavoured liquors, Vina odoramentis immixta.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

A very famous and rather picturesque history of this kind is related by Gregory of Tours.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole