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The Visigoths with their capital at Toulouse, remained de facto independent, and soon began expanding into Roman territory at the expense of the feeble Western empire. Under Theodoric I (418–451), the Visigoths attacked Arles (in 425 [10] and 430 [11]) and Narbonne (in 436), [11] but were checked by Litorius using Hunnic mercenaries.
The Visigoths were never called Visigoths, only Goths, until Cassiodorus used the term, when referring to their loss against Clovis I in 507. Cassiodorus apparently invented the term based on the model of the "Ostrogoths", but using the older name of the Vesi, one of the tribal names which the fifth-century poet Sidonius Apollinaris, had already used when referring to the Visigoths.
Because of that, this legend is probably a result of Christians mistelling history to make themselves seem more successful and influential. This is important because if Christian rewriting of Iberian history was commonplace at the time, it is possible that historical writing regarding the Recceswinth Crown was corrupted by a Christian bias .
At Euric's death of natural causes in 484 the Kingdom of the Visigoths encompassed a third of modern France and almost all of Iberia (i.e. except the region of Galicia then expanding until the Douro river basin in present-day Portugal and by then ruled by the Suebi).
The Life and Work of Ulfila, 124; 6. The Gothic Bible 145; 7. Selections from the Gothic Bible 163–185. Bennett, William Holmes (1980). An Introduction to the Gothic Language. New York City: The Modern Language Association of America. ISBN 978-0-87352-295-3. Rubin, Zeev (1981). "The Conversion of the Visigoths to Christianity". Museum ...
The cover of an edition of the Liber Iudiciorum from 1600.. The Visigothic Code (Latin: Forum Iudicum, Liber Iudiciorum, or Book of the Judgements; Spanish: Fuero Juzgo), also called Lex Visigothorum (English: Law of the Visigoths), is a set of laws first promulgated by king Chindasuinth (642–653 AD) of the Visigothic Kingdom in his second year of rule (642–643) that survives only in ...
Gothic place of settlement and their raids into the Roman Empire in the 3rd century. During the 3rd century, East Germanic people, moving in a southeasterly direction, migrated into the Dacians' territories previously under Sarmatian and Roman control, and the confluence of East Germanic, Sarmatian, Dacian and Roman cultures resulted in the emergence of a new Gothic identity.
Brunhilda avoided her sister's fate, and became a central figure of Frankish history for the remainder of the sixth century. [11] Lastly, Goiswintha survived the upheaval that followed Athangild's death, and became the second wife of Liuvigild, the brother of Athangild's successor Liuva, and himself a future king of the Visigoths. [12]