Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus was a fifth-century

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

. He wrote a historical work of twelve volumes. It exists today only in brief fragments, a few passages having survived in chapters eight and nine of the second book of

Gregory of Tours Gregory of Tours (30 November 538 – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of the area that had been previously referred to as Gaul by the Romans. He was born Georgius Florenti ...

' ''Decem libri historiarum'' (Ten Books of Histories). Gregory likewise preserves some quoted material from the late fourth-century historian

Sulpicius Alexander Sulpicius Alexander (fl. late fourth century) was a Roman historian of Germanic tribes. His work is lost, but his ''Historia'' in at least four books is quoted by Gregory of Tours. It was perhaps a continuation of the ''Res gestae'' by Ammianus Ma ...

References

* Gregory of Tours: ''The History of the Franks''. Translated by Lewis Thorpe, Harmondsworth 1974. *

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: ''Frigeridus 2''. In: ''Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft'' (RE). Vol. VII,1, Stuttgart 1910, col. 102. {{DEFAULTSORT:Frigeridus, Renatus Profuturus 5th-century Romans 5th-century historians 5th-century Latin writers