Event: Freeing captives, Law-making/legislation, Manumission, Monastic life, converting to/joining/oblation, Ordering, Praying, RansomingBalthild 1.manumitting

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Description Balthild 1 forbade Christian men to become captives, and issued precepts throughout each region [ordering] that absolutely no one ought to transfer a captive Christian in the kingdom of the Neustrians. And in addition she paid the price and ordered many captives to be bought back and she released them as free. Others of them, especially from her own race, men and also many girls, she sent into the monasteries as her own charges. However many she was able to attract, these she entrusted to the holy monasteries, and she ordered them to pray for her.
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