Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus
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Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus was a fifth century historian
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Frigeridus wrote a historical work of twelve volumes. It exists today only in fragments, but some Passages have survived in the historical work of Gregory of Tours
, commonly but incorrectly called Historia Francorum (History of the Franks; II 8 and II 9).
See also: Sulpicius Alexander
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
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Frigeridus wrote a historical work of twelve volumes. It exists today only in fragments, but some Passages have survived in the historical work of Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours
Saint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather...
, commonly but incorrectly called Historia Francorum (History of the Franks; II 8 and II 9).
See also: Sulpicius Alexander
Sulpicius Alexander
Sulpicius Alexander was a Roman historian of Germanic tribes. His work is lost, but his Historia in at least four books is quoted by Gregory of Tours. It was perhaps a continuation of the Res gestae by Ammianus Marcellinus and dealt with events at least until the death of Valentinian II...