[4][5][6] Maroveus was on poor terms with Queen Radegund and her religious foundation in Poitiers, Holy Cross Abbey.
He refused to formally deposit the relic of the True Cross which she had acquired in the abbey and did not attend the ceremony when it was performed by Eufronius.
[8] After Radegund's death, according to Gregory of Tours, Maroveus had his authority over the abbey confirmed by King Childebert II, but in 589, led by two royal women, Basina and Clotild, the nuns rebelled.
[9] When Clotild imprisoned the Abbess Leubovera in 590, Maroveus threatened to "rouse the townsfolk and free" her, but in the event she was rescued by a royal official, Flavianus.
[11][12] Around the same time, Gregory and Maroveus were charged by Childebert to mediate between Berthegund and Ingitrude, but while the former came before the bishops in Tours, the latter refused.