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  • 13 - The Catholic Visigothic kingdom

  • from PART II - THE SEVENTH CENTURY
  • Edited by Paul Fouracre, University of Manchester
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    08 December 2005, pp 346-370

  • Summary

    In the spring of 586 King Leovigild was succeeded by his son Reccared. Reccared, abandoned Arianism and converted to the Catholic faith, and which, was intended to complete the political achievements of his father by ensuring the support of the nobility of Roman origin and the Catholic Church. In the period between the assassination of Witteric in 610 and the dethronement of Svinthila in 631, there were several kings. The most significant accomplishment of their reigns was the destruction of Byzantine power in the Peninsula. The reigns of Chindasuinth and his son Reccesuinth cover a long period during which both carried out extensive legislative work culminating in the promulgation of the Liber Iudiciorum, a great compilation of law initiated by Chindasuinth and completed by Reccesuinth in 654. This chapter discusses Egica and the attempt to establish dynastic succession, and Witiza, Roderic and the end of the Visigoth kingdom.