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Chronicle III of X

Visigothic Spain

Regnum Gothorum

The Visigothic kingdom from Vouillé to Guadalete, where it fell to the armies of Islam.

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5th century – 711 CE
Entries
14

  1. Federate GothsPolitical

    The Goths settled in Aquitaine

    By treaty with the patrician Constantius, the Visigoths under Wallia abandon their Iberian campaign against the Vandals and Alans and are settled as federates of the empire across Aquitania Secunda, with their seat at Tolosa.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  2. Kingdom of ToulousePolitical

    Euric throws off Roman authority

    Euric repudiates the last formal ties to the empire, occupies the imperial city of Arles, and by treaty wrings recognition of a sovereign Visigothic kingdom from Provence to the Atlantic — including most of Hispania.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  3. Vouillé and afterMilitary

    Clovis crushes Alaric II at Vouillé

    On a plain near Poitiers the Frankish king Clovis defeats and personally kills Alaric II. The Visigothic kingdom loses its Aquitanian heart and is driven over the Pyrenees into Hispania, where it will remake itself in the next two generations.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  4. Byzantine SpaniaMilitary

    Justinian lands in the south

    Invited as an ally by the pretender Athanagild, an army of Justinian under the patrician Liberius lands in south-eastern Hispania and carves out the imperial province of Spania, with capitals at Carthago Spartaria and Malaca.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  5. LeovigildPolitical

    Leovigild ascends the throne

    The veteran general Leovigild becomes co-king with his brother Liuva and within five years sole ruler. In an eighteen-year reign of campaigns and reform he will weld the disparate Visigothic state into something like a kingdom.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  6. End of the SueviMilitary

    Leovigild absorbs the Suevic kingdom

    After his rebellious son Hermenegild dies in prison and the Suevic king Audeca takes monastic vows under duress, the kingdom of Gallaecia is annexed to the Visigothic crown. For the first time in two centuries one ruler holds all Iberia.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  7. Catholic conversionReligious

    The Third Council of Toledo

    King Reccared, son of Leovigild, publicly abjures Arianism with his nobles and Arian bishops, and the Third Council of Toledo proclaims the Visigothic kingdom Catholic. The rupture of two centuries between Goth and Roman is healed in confession of one creed.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  8. Unified kingdomMilitary

    Suinthila expels the Byzantines

    King Suinthila reduces the last imperial garrisons in southern Hispania and ends the Byzantine province of Spania. For the first time the Visigothic monarchy rules the whole peninsula, from the Pyrenees to the Strait.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  9. 6 more entries, to AD 711