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The German Invasions 61 rhistoire, 1886-1893. Translation in Geschichtschreiber. The text with a French translation is published by the Societe de 1'histoire de France.) The only historical work dealing with the Franks in the seventh century which has come down to us is that which passes for convenience under the name of FREDEGARIUS THE SCHOOLMASTER, although there is no reason to suppose that a man of that name wrote it. Indeed, three writers who probably lived in Burgundy would seem to have been responsible for the only valuable part of the work, which covers the period from Gregory of Tours to the year 660. In the following century, under the inspiration of the brother of Charles Martel, the chronicle of Fredegarius was continued by three other successive writers, wh6 brought it down to the year 768. (Text in the Monu- menta, in Geschichtschreiber, and Guizot, Collection de Memoires.) The Lombards found their historian in PAULUS WARNEFRIDI, com- monly called Paul the Deacon, born about 725 in northern Italy. He was teacher and friend of the Lombard princess Adelperga and became so distinguished as an historian that Charlemagne summoned him to join the literary circle of his court. His history of the Lombards closes with the year 744. (In the Monumenta ; also in the octavo edition of the Monumenta and in the Geschichtschreiber?) Full accounts of the sources mentioned above and of the other materials will be found in Wattenbach and in Molinier (see above, p. 1 1). For BEDE'S History of the English Church and The Lives of the Saints which throw light on the conversion of the Germans, see close of Chapter V. The imagi- nary school- master Fredegarius and his chronicle. Paulus Dia- conus (d. ca. 800), and his history of thje Lom- bards.