1. Boniface, Letters 80, ed. M. Tangl, Die Briefen des heiligen Bonifatius und Lullus, MGH Epp. Sel. 1 (Berlin, 1916), pp. 172–80, at pp. 178–9.
2. Ed. and trans. P. Godman, Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance (London, 1985), pp. 158–9. See also Chapter 11 in this volume.
3. P. Geary, Before France and Germany: the Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World (Oxford, 1988), pp. 168–77.
4. For this view, which is somewhat dependent on Gregory of Tours’s Histories and later seventh-century hagiography, and a critique, see Y. Fox, Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul. Columbanian Monasticism and the Frankish Elites (Cambridge, 2014), pp. 3–9.
5. For the latest on these family churches see S. Wood, The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West (Oxford, 2008), pp. 109–39; Fox, Power and Religion, p. 134, and literature therein.