A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Fritigila
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FRITIGILA, became famous, A. D. 396.
Queen of the Marcomans, being instructed in christianity by the writings of Ambrose, embraced it herself, and by her influence, occasioned her husband and the whole nation, to do the same. By her persuasion, they entered into a durable alliance with the Romans; so that, in the various irruptions of the barbarians on the empire, the Marcomans are never mentioned by historians, though only separated by the Danube.
Gifford's France.