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Nicetius of Trier (525/6–c.566/7)   Reference library

Bruno Dumézil and Simon Loseby

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

...on the Moselle. Gregory of Tours praises his holiness, wrote a brief Life ( Lives of the Fathers 17) based on information provided by Nicetius’ protégé Aredius of Limoges, and mentions his posthumous miracles ( Lives of the Confessors , 92). Bruno Dumézil ; Simon Loseby PCBE IV/2, Nicetius 6. Roberts , Humblest Sparrow , 85–93. H. Pohlsander , ‘A Call to Repentance: Bishop Nicetius of Trier to the Emperor Justinian’, Byzantion 70 (2000), 456–73. K. Uhalde , ‘Proof and Reproof: The Judicial Component of Episcopal Confrontation’, EME 8...

Nicetius of Trier   Quick reference

The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (5 ed.)

... of Trier , bishop ( d. 561 ). Described by Gregory of Tours as ‘strong in preaching, fearsome in reproving and constant in teaching’, Nicetius was the last Gallo-Roman bishop of Trier in the early days of Frankish rule. Born at Auvergne, he became a monk at Limoges and was nominated bishop of Trier by Theodoric I . This did not prevent him reproving Theodoric , Theodebert , and Clotaire I . The latter had him exiled, but died soon afterwards and his son Sigebert restored him to his see. Nicetius called in Italian craftsmen to rebuild his...

Aredius (591)   Reference library

Simon Loseby

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

... (venerated as S. Yrieix) (d. 591 ) An intimate of Gregory of Tours ( HF X, 29), he became a priest in his native Limousin after spells at Theudebert I ’s court and in Nicetius of Trier ’s entourage. On inheriting the family estates he left their management to his mother Pelagia, and became abbot of the monastery he founded at Attanum (S. Yrieix-de-la-Perche). Their joint will is a valuable guide to Merovingian estate structures and church ornament, interpolations notwithstanding. Simon Loseby PLRE IIIA, Aredius (St. Yrieix)....

Epistulae Austrasicae   Reference library

Bruno Dumézil and Simon Loseby

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

...Austrasicae A collection of 48 public and private letters written in Austrasia between the 470s and the 590s, transmitted in a 9th-century manuscript written in Lorsch. Their authors were important figures such as Remigius of Reims , Nicetius of Trier , Germanus of Paris , Venantius Fortunatus , and Dynamius , Patricius of Provence . More than half of the letters shed light on diplomatic relations between the Austrasian kings and the Eastern Roman Empire. The gathering of the collection has generally been dated to the late 6th century,...

Trier   Reference library

Christine Davison and Bailey K. Young

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

..., when Bishop Nicetius (525/6–65/9) restored it. Christine Davison ; Bailey K. Young Topographie chrétienne , vol. 1, Trèves: Belgica Prima , ed. N. Gauthier and J.-Ch. Picard (1986) s.n. Trèves, 13–32 (N. Gauthier), and 16/2 (2014), 289–99. RIC VI, VII, VIII, X. H. Heinen , Trier und das Trevererland in rӧmischer Zeit. 2000 Jahre Trier, Band 1 (1985). H. Heinen , H. H. Anton , and W. Weber , eds., Im Umbruch der Kulturen. Spӓtantike undFrühmittelalter. Geschichte des Bistums Trier, Band 1 (2003). H. H. Anton , Trier im frühen...

Lyons   Reference library

Simon Loseby

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

...more following the conquest of the Burgundian kingdom by the Franks in 534 . The city’s early Christian traditions, including an eyewitness account of the persecution of the Lyons martyrs of the late 2nd century , are reliably mediated through Eusebius ( HE V, 1). The bishops include the martyred S. Pothinus and Irenaeus in the 2nd century , Eucherius and Patiens in the 5th century , and Nicetius in the 6th, and its churches, several of which have been excavated, provide our best markers of the reorientation of the city’s landscape that...

Green Man   Reference library

The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

...found in a Christian setting is the Green Man face carved into the tomb of Sainte Abre, in the church of St-Hilaire-le-Grand, Poiters, France. Usually dated to 400, the face disgorges vegetation, possibly representing a transitional stage from the leaf masks of earlier art. Pictures of dolphins on the tomb suggest a connection with Dionysus who is said to have disgorged ivy, thereby fouling the plans of pirates whom he turned into dolphins. In Germany, when Bishop Nicetius rebuilt Trier's cathedral in the mid-sixth century, he reused columns containing Green...

Clovis (c.466–511)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

...by historians. If we subordinate the event, as a later source suggests ( Letter of St Nicetius of Trier to the Lombard Queen Clodoswinde , Clovis's grand-daughter, in 567–568 ), to a preliminary visit of Clovis to St Martin 's Tomb at Tours , it could only have taken place on the occasion of one of the campaigns against the Visigoths , of which we know three: in 496 , 498 and 507 . The baptism being also consecutive to a campaign against the alamanni , of which we know two, in 496 and 506 , we must thus situate it in 496 (traditional...