Athanagild (c. 517 – December 567) was Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania. He had rebelled against his predecessor, Agila I, in 551. The armies...

Chilperic I marries Galswintha, both daughters of the Visigothic king Athanagild. King Charibert I dies without an heir; his realm (region Neustria and...

the Visigoth Athanagild, who had usurped the kingship, to the Byzantine emperor Justinian I to send soldiers to his assistance. Athanagild won his war...

Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, and his wife Brunhilda, daughter of King Athanagild of the Visigoths. She married Hermenegild and became the first Catholic...

opposed to Agila was Athanagild, whose open revolt began in 551, following Agila's defeat at Cordoba. The armies of Agila and Athanagild met at Seville, where...

them. About 567, he married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic king Athanagild. According to Gregory of Tours: Now when king Sigebert saw that his brothers...

the Visigothic capital of Toledo, the younger of the two daughters of Athanagild and Goiswintha. She was only eleven years old when her father was made...

April 585. He had one son by his wife named Athanagild after his matrilineal great-grandfather king Athanagild. They both tried to seek refuge in Constantinople...

greatest Visigothic kings of the Arian period. When the Visigothic king Athanagild died in 567, Liuva I was elevated to the kingship at a ceremony held in...

the commencement of his reign (549) or as late as 551, a nobleman named Athanagild took Seville, capital of Baetica, and presumed to rule as king in opposition...

Empire established a presence in Visigothic Hispania, when the usurper Athanagild requested assistance in his rebellion against King Agila I. In 552, Justinian...

Sometime in 549, the Visigoth Athanagild sought military assistance from Justinian I and while this aide helped Athanagild win his wars, the Romans had...

Hispania and Septimania. He was made king at Narbonne following the death of Athanagild in December 567. Roger Collins notes this was the first time a Visigothic...

queen consort of Hispania and Septimania. She was the wife of two kings, Athanagild and Liuvigild. From her first marriage, she was the mother of two daughters...

Galswintha (540–568) was a queen consort of Neustria. She was the daughter of Athanagild, Visigothic king of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern...

Recuperatio Imperii, but managing to establish a pro-Byzantine king, Athanagild, and the conquest of Spania). The following is a list of all known prefects...

skip Theudigisel, as well as Agila I, going directly from Theudis to Athanagild. Theudigisel was a leading Ostrogoth general during the reign of Theudis...

complete the consolidation of reconquered regions of Southern Spain. Athanagild is crowned as king of the Visigoths and succeeds Agila I. He acknowledges...

of Spain" Capital of the Visigothic kingdom by the end of the reign of Athanagild (died 567). Collins, Roger (2004). Visigothic Spain, 409–711. Oxford:...

Sigebert married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. He had already repudiated...

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of Athanagild and Agila I. Athanagild asked Justinian for help, and the emperor sent a small army of 2,000 men to Hispania, which helped Athanagild prevail...

given the commemorative name Tudmir by the Arabs. Theudimer left a son, Athanagild, who was described as very wealthy by the Chronicle, but whether or not...

(Chrodechildis), wife of Amalaric (511/26–31) Goisuintha (Goiswintha), wife of Athanagild (554–67) Theodosia of Cartagena, first wife of Liuvigild (568–86) Goisuintha...

advantage of a struggle for the throne between the Visigothic kings Agila and Athanagild, the Byzantine emperor Justinian I sent an army under the command of Liberius...

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and in the wars which ensued Alaric II and Amalaric lost their lives. Athanagild, having risen against King Agila, called in the Byzantine Greeks and,...

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Chilperic married two sisters, daughters of the Visigoth king of Spain Athanagild; princesses Brunhilda, and Galswintha respectively. However Chilperic...

Fredegund aside and married Galswintha, the daughter of Visigothic King Athanagild, after his half-brother and rival, King Sigibert I of Austrasia, had married...