4. Baltha, or bold: origo mirifica, says Jornandes (c.
29). This illustrious race long continued to flourish in
France, in the Gothic province of Septimania, or Languedoc,
under the corrupted appellation of 'Baux': and a branch of
that family afterwards settled in the kingdom of Naples
(Grotius in Prolegom. ad Hist. Gothic. p. 53). The lords of
Baux, near Arles, and of seventy-nine subordinate places,
were independent of the counts of Provence (Longuerue,
Description de la France, tom. i. p. 357).