[1] In 580, an epidemic of dysentery swept through Gaul and afflicted the king as well as killing all his remaining children, except Basina and her brothers Clovis and Merovech (who later married Brunhilda).
In 589, Basina joined her first cousin, Clotilda, daughter of Charibert I, in rebellion against the abbess of their monastery, Leubovère, whom they accused of both excessive rigor with the monastic community and immorality.
On Palm Sunday of that year, Clotilda led a secession by a group of renegade nuns who left the abbey and took refuge in the Great Church of St. Hilary, where they proceeded to garner a following of men, mostly criminals.
Violence continued to break out in the abbey church itself, and, in Gregory's words, scarcely a day passed without a murder, or an hour without a quarrel, or a moment without tears.
This caused King Childebert II of Austrasia to propose to his uncle, Guntram of Burgundy, that they send joint embassies of their bishops to deal with the incident in accordance with Church law.