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| | Electronic Antiquity (Dec. 1995): ROYAL PARTICIPATION IN EPISCOPAL ELECTIONS IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL |
 | | Cato did not do this, however, for any principle of canon law, but because he wanted another see more than the one he was offered. |
 | | Cato had been elected by the clergy of Clermont as their bishop in 551, but king Theudebald rejected Cato in favour of the archdeacon Cautinus, causing strife and conflict in that city (GT, Ten Books 4.5-4.7). |
 | | Four years later, in 555, the new king, Lothar I, offered Cato the see of Tours, supposedly at the prompting of bishop Cautinus (GT, Ten Books 4.11). |
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