162. Theodebert, grandson of Clovis and king of Austrasia,
was the most powerful and warlike prince of the age; and
this remarkable adventure may be placed between the years
534 and 547, the extreme terms of his reign. His sister
Theudechildis retired to Sens, where she founded monasteries
and distributed alms (see the notes of the Benedictine
editors, in tom. ii. p. 216) . If we may credit the praises
of Fortunatus (1. vi. carm. 5, in tom. ii. p. 507), Radiger
was deprived of a most valuable wife.