[Footnote 88: Ex Francis, quo nomine tam Latinos quam
Teutones comprehendit, ludum habuit, (Liutprand in Legat ad
Imp. Nicephorum, p. 483, 484.) This extension of the name
may be confirmed from Constantine (de Administrando Imperio,
l. 2, c. 27, 28) and Eutychius, (Annal. tom. i. p. 55, 56,)
who both lived before the Crusades. The testimonies of
Abulpharagius (Dynast. p. 69) and Abulfeda (Praefat. ad
Geograph.) are more recent]