E06430: A letter of Pope Gregory the Great (Register 13.10) of 602, to Lupus, priest and abbot, grants privileges to a church dedicated to *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, S00050) in the suburbs of Autun (central Gaul). Written in Latin in Rome.

Pope Gregory the Great, Register of Letters 13.11


Extract from a letter granting protection and privileges to the church:

Proinde iuxta scripta filiorum nostrorum praecellentissimorum regum Brunigildis ac nepotis ipsius Theoderici ecclesiae sancti Martini, quae in suburbano ciuitatis Augustodonensis a Syagrio reuerendae memoriae episcopo et praedicta excellentissima filia nostra regina constructa est, cui praeesse dinosceris, huiusmodi priuilegia praesentis auctoritatis nostrae decreto indulgemus.

‘And so, in accordance with the letters of our children, those most excellent of rulers, Brunhild and her grandson, Theuderic, by the decree of our authority in this letter we grant privileges of this sort to the church of Saint Martin, constructed in the suburbs of the city of Autun by Bishop Syagrius, of reverend memory, and by our aforesaid most excellent daughter and queen, over which you are known to preside.’


Text: Norberg 1982, vol. 2, 1009. Translation: Martyn 2004, vol. 3, 834.