 St. Remigius used the good-will of the Frankish monarchy to organize the Catholic hierarchy in the North of Gaul.He confided the Diocese of Arras and Cambrai to St. Vaast (Vedastus), and founded the See of Tournai (c. 500), appointing as its titular Eleutherius.It was probably its status of royal city which secured Tournai's early rise, only to lose its position as capital upon the departure of the Merovingian court.