ced them to their duty;
and this is the only war in which he was engaged. The love of peace
disposed his heart to be a fit temple of the Holy Ghost, whom he invited
into his soul by assiduous prayer, and the exercise of all Christian
virtues. His patrimony he employed in relieving the necessitous, and in
building or endowing monasteries, churches, and hospitals. He founded
twelve monasteries, the four principal of which were Cougnon, now a
priory, not far from Bouillon; Stavelo and Malmedi, two miles from each
other, and St. Martin's, near Metz. St. Remaclus brought from Solignac
the rule of St. Columban, which king Sigebert {336} in his charter to
Cougnon calls the rule of the ancient fathers. This that holy abbot
established first at Cougnon, and afterwards at Malmedi and Stavelo. A
life filled with good works, and devoted all to God, can never be called
short. God was pleased to call this good king from the miseries of this
world to the recompense of his labors on the 1st of February, in the
year 656, the eighteenth of his reign, and the twenty-fifth of his
age.[2] He was interred in the abbey of St. Martin's, near Metz, which
he had built. His body was found incorrupt in 1063, and placed in a
monument on the side of the high altar: and in 1170 it was enshrined in
a silver case. The monastery of St. Martin's, and all others in the
suburbs, were demolished by Francis of Lorraine, duke of Guise, in 1552,
when Charles V. laid siege to Metz. The relics of St. Sigebert are now
deposited in the collegiate church of our Lady at Nancy. He is honored
among the saints in great part of the dominions which he governed, and
in the monasteries and churches which he founded. See Fredegarius and
his continuator, Sigebert of Gemblours, in his life of this saint, with
the learned remarks of Henschenius, p. 40. Also Calmet, Hist. de
Lorraine, t. 1, p. 419. Schoepflin, Alsatia Illustrata, Colmariae, an.
1751. Sect. 2, p. 742.

Footnotes:
1. Charibert, though he took the title of king, and resided at
Toulouse, held his estates of his brother Dagobert, and by his gift.
After Charibert's death, Chilperic, his eldest son, was put to death
by Dagobert; but his second son, Boggis, left a numerous posterity,
which was only extinguished in Louis d'Armagnac, duke of Nemours,
slain at the battle of Cerignole, where he commanded for Louis XII.
against Gonzales de Cordova, surnamed The Great Captain, for the
Catholic k