ABSTRACT
St Chrodegang was Bishop of Metz at the beginning of the great reform period associated with the first Carolingians. Metz was the most important city in Austrasia, the eastern part of the Frankish domains, close to the newly converted mission fields of Germany. Its first bishop had been St Arnulf, the ancestor of the Carolingians. The life of Chrodegang is preserved by Paul the Deacon in De Gestis Longobardorum, written c.783, during the time of Angilramn, successor to the saint. 1
