24. Gregory of Tours (1. ii. 30, 37, in tom. ii. p.176, 177,
182), the Gesta Francorum (in tom. ii. p. 551), and the
epistle of Theodoric (Cassiodor. Variar. l. ii. Ep. 41, in
tom. iv. p. 4) represent the defeat of the Alemanni. Some of
their tribes settled in Rhaetia, under the protection of
Theodoric, whose successors ceded the colony and their
country to the grandson of Clovis. The state of the Alemanni
under the Merovingian kings may be seen in Mascou (Hist. of
the Ancient Germans, xi. 8 etc.; Annotation xxxvi.) and
Guilliman (de Reb. Helvet. 1. ii. c. 10-12, p. 72-80).