Note 9 — Chapter I · LAND AND PEOPLE; AND GOTHIC SWAY

[The single combat between Alaric and Clovis, the miraculous fall of the walls of Angoulême, and other circumstances related by Gregory of Toursn render his authority in these wars of little weight in any case, unless supported by other testimony, as that of Procopiuso and St. Isidore.p Burkej calls this battle “the foundation of the Frankish Kingdom of France and the origin of the Gothic Kingdom of Spain.”]