Reys del Palacio Real
Here's two of them anyway. The rest came out blurry because it was too dark. Next time I'll take more. I looked them up when I got home. It might be boring to some, but I love history!
Liuvigild, Leuvigild, Leovigild, or Leogild was King of the Visigoths from 569 to April 21, 586. He was born c. 525 and was the son of Amalaric and Chrotilda, daughter of Clovis.
Liuvigild was declared co-king with his brother Liuva I on the throne of the Visigoths after a short period of anarchy which followed the death of King Athanagild, who was a brother of them both. Both were Arian Christians. Liuva, who was favored by the Visigoth nobles, came to rule the Visigothic lands north of the Pyrenees, while Liuvigild ruled in Hispania.
Liuvigild married Athanagild's widow, Goisvintha. His first wife, Theodosia, the mother of his two sons, Hermenegild and Reccared, had died.
In 572 or 573 Liuva died. Liuvigild began his sole reign of the reunited Visigothic territories by seizing the Byzantine-ruled city of Córdoba, where the Byzantines had recently answered Athanagild's call for help by establishing a stretch of Byzantine territory in the southeast of the Iberian peninsula. Liuvigild also ousted the Germanic Suevi from their strongholds at León and Zamora, thus enlarging his kingdom to the north and west as well, but for another generation the eastern Roman emperor retained a base in southeastern Spain, which retained its old Roman name of Hispania Baetica.
Read the rest here if you're interested.
Liuva II, youthful son of Reccared, was king of the Visigoths in Hispania from 601 to 603. He succeeded Reccared at only eighteen years of age.
In the spring of 602, the Goth Witteric, one of the conspirators with Sunna de Mérida to reestablish Arianism in 589, was given command of the army to repulse the Byzantines. From his position of power at the head of the army, he surrounded himself with people in his confidence. When it came time to expel the Byzantines, Witteric instead used his troops to strike at the king (Spring 603). Invading the royal palace, and deposing the young king, he counted on the support of a faction of nobles in opposition to the dynasty of Leovigild. Witteric cut off the king's right hand and later had him condemned and executed (Summer 603).
Liuvigild, Leuvigild, Leovigild, or Leogild was King of the Visigoths from 569 to April 21, 586. He was born c. 525 and was the son of Amalaric and Chrotilda, daughter of Clovis.
Liuvigild was declared co-king with his brother Liuva I on the throne of the Visigoths after a short period of anarchy which followed the death of King Athanagild, who was a brother of them both. Both were Arian Christians. Liuva, who was favored by the Visigoth nobles, came to rule the Visigothic lands north of the Pyrenees, while Liuvigild ruled in Hispania.
Liuvigild married Athanagild's widow, Goisvintha. His first wife, Theodosia, the mother of his two sons, Hermenegild and Reccared, had died.
In 572 or 573 Liuva died. Liuvigild began his sole reign of the reunited Visigothic territories by seizing the Byzantine-ruled city of Córdoba, where the Byzantines had recently answered Athanagild's call for help by establishing a stretch of Byzantine territory in the southeast of the Iberian peninsula. Liuvigild also ousted the Germanic Suevi from their strongholds at León and Zamora, thus enlarging his kingdom to the north and west as well, but for another generation the eastern Roman emperor retained a base in southeastern Spain, which retained its old Roman name of Hispania Baetica.
Read the rest here if you're interested.
Liuva II, youthful son of Reccared, was king of the Visigoths in Hispania from 601 to 603. He succeeded Reccared at only eighteen years of age.
In the spring of 602, the Goth Witteric, one of the conspirators with Sunna de Mérida to reestablish Arianism in 589, was given command of the army to repulse the Byzantines. From his position of power at the head of the army, he surrounded himself with people in his confidence. When it came time to expel the Byzantines, Witteric instead used his troops to strike at the king (Spring 603). Invading the royal palace, and deposing the young king, he counted on the support of a faction of nobles in opposition to the dynasty of Leovigild. Witteric cut off the king's right hand and later had him condemned and executed (Summer 603).
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