persecution of the monasteries; hundreds of monks and nuns are mutilated or put to death. June 5 – Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia, while reading the Scriptures to Christian converts. He is later buried in the Abbey of Fulda, entrusted to his Bavarian disciple Sturm. Births Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Frankish queen and wife of Charlemange (d. 783) Li Fan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 811) Deaths June 5 Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary Eoban, bishop of Utrecht June 10 – Abul Abbas al-Saffah, Muslim caliph August 17 – Carloman mayor of the palace of Austrasia and brother of Pepin III (The Short) Ansemund, Visigothic count Burchard, bishop of Würzburg (approximate date) Childeric III, king of the Franks (approximate date) Cui Hao, Chinese poet Hiltrud, duchess regent of Bavaria (b. 716) Li Linfu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty Rhodri Molwynog, king of Gwynedd (Wales) References