Gregory of Tours (Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages)
Early Life
Georgius Florentius, who would become Gregory, Bishop of Tours, was born in the capital city of the Arverni (the people of Auvergne). In his De virtutibus sancti Martini (c. 593; The Miracles of Saint Martin, 1949), he provides the information that he was born on Saint Andrew’s Day thirty-four years before his installation in 573 as the nineteenth bishop of Tours—that would be in 539. He was given the name of his father (Georgius) and of his father’s father (Florentius), each of whom was of senatorial rank. His mother, Armentaria, was a...
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