Visigothic Kingdom

Kingdom of the Visigoths
*Regnum Gothorum*
Kingdom of the Visigoths Regnum Gothorum
418–c. 721
	Greatest extent of the Visigothic Kingdom, c. 500 (Total extension shown in orange. Territory lost after Battle of Vouillé shown in light orange). Greatest extent of the Visigothic Kingdom, c. 500 (Total extension shown in orange. Territory lost after Battle of Vouillé shown in light orange).
Capital	Toulouse (418–507); Barcelona (507–542) (temporarily); Toledo (542–711);
Common languages	Gothic (spoken among elite); Vulgar Latin; Vasconic languages (spoken by several tribes throughout almost the entire Pyrenean and pre-Pyrenian region); Hebrew and Aramaic (spoken to a certain extent, during this period, among Jews);
Religion	Gothic paganism (initially); Chalcedonian Christianity; Arianism;
Government	Monarchy
King
• 415–418	Wallia
• 418–451	Theodoric I
• 466–484	Euric
• 484–507	Alaric II
• 511–526	Theodoric the Great
• 568–586	Liuvigild
• 586–601	Reccared
• 612–621	Sisebut
• 621–631	Swintila
• 649–672	Recceswinth
• 694–710	Wittiza
• 710–711	Roderic
• 714 – c. 721	Ardo
History
• Sack of Rome	410
•	418
• Battle of the Catalaunian Plains	451
• Battle of Vouillé	507
• Annexation of the Suebic Kingdom	585
• Conquest of Byzantine Spania	624
• Battle of Guadalete and Umayyad conquest of Toledo	711
•	c. 721
Area
484	500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi)
580	600,000 km2 (230,000 sq mi)
Preceded by	Succeeded by
x30px	Western Roman Empire
22px	Kingdom of the Suebi
Umayyad Caliphate	20px
Kingdom of Asturias	20px

The Visigothic Kingdom was a kingdom in what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries.

It was created when Visigoths under King Wallia entered the Roman province of Gallia Aquitania. The kingdom was expanded when the Visigoths conquered Hispania.

Visigothic Kingdom Media

Hispania 418 AD.PNG

Península ibérica en el año 418, tras el reparto de Hispania por los invasores renanos (411) y el asentamiento visigodo en Aquitania II. * Iberian peninsula in year 418, after the Rhine invaders had divided Hispania (411) and the settlement of the Visigoths in Aquitania II.
Theodoric I by Fabrizio Castello 1560 1617.jpg

Theodoric I by Fabrizio Castello (1560–1617)
Hispania 476 AD.svg

Map of Spain in the 470's, before the Fall of Rome, showing the campaigns of Theoderic II and the flee of the Vandals.
Battle between Clovis and the Visigoths.jpg

Clovis I fights the Visigoths
Visigothic - Pair of Eagle Fibula - Walters 54421, 54422 - Group.jpg

Visigothic - Pair of Eagle Fibula - Walters 54421, 54422 - Group
Chindasuinth.jpg

From the Códice Albedense.
King Roderich, Qusayr Amra.jpg

Copy of a mural from Qusayr Amra, depicting king Roderic

References

↑ Following the death of Amalaric (531). See: S. J. B. Barnish, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress, The Ostrogoths from the migration period to the sixth century: an ethnographic perspective (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2007), p. 369.
↑ Capital of the Visigothic kingdom by the end of the reign of Athanagild (died 567). See: Collins, Roger. Visigothic Spain, 409–711 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), p. 44.
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[1] Following the death of Amalaric (531). See: S. J. B. Barnish, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress, The Ostrogoths from the migration period to the sixth century: an ethnographic perspective (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2007), p. 369.

[2] Capital of the Visigothic kingdom by the end of the reign of Athanagild (died 567). See: Collins, Roger. Visigothic Spain, 409–711 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), p. 44.

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