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Personal data Athanagildo der Visigothen 

• He was born in the year 510.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  was een Visigotische koning. Hij was van 554 tot 567 koning van Hispania (het huidige Iberië).
  
  Hoewel hij gedurende zijn bewind moest strijden tegen de Byzantijnen, Franken, Sueven en de Basken, wist Athanagildo zijn koninkrijk intern te versterken door zich met de katholieken te verzoenen, die door zijn ariaanse voorgangers waren onderdrukt. Toen in 560 de koning van de Sueven namelijk overging naar het katholieke christendom, raakten Athanagildo en de Visigotische adel religieus gezien zelf geïsoleerd.
  
  Hij was getrouwd met Goiswintha en was de vader van Galswintha, die huwde met de Frankische koning Chilperik I van Neustrië. Galswintha werd vermoord door diens minnares Fredegonde, waarna er oorlog uitbrak tussen Austrasië en Neustrië. Zijn tweede dochter was Brunhilde van Austrasië of ook Brunehaut (534 - 613), zij huwde met de Frankische koning Sigebert I van Austrasië. Zij trachtte haar achterkleinzoon Sigebert II met behulp van de Bourgondiërs tot koning uit te roepen. Dit was tegen de zin van de adel, en Chlotarius II van Neustrië liet Brunhilde in 613 vermoorden.
  
  Athanagild stierf een vredige dood in eigen bed, in zijn tijd tamelijk ongewoon voor iemand met zijn functie. Hij werd opgevolgd door zijn broers, Liuva I en de hersteller van de Visigotische eenheid in Hispania, Leovigild, de laatste van de ariaanse Visigotische koningen.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Athanagild (died 567) was Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania. He had rebelled against his predecessor, Agila, in 551. The armies of Agila and Athanagild met at Seville, where Agila met a second defeat.[1] Following the death of Agila in 554, he was sole ruler for the rest of his reign.
  
  Roger Collins writes that Athanagild's reign "is perhaps more significant than our sources may care to let us believe." Collins argues that the account of Isidore of Seville may be colored by the hostility subsequent Visigothic kings had towards Athanagild and his descendants.[2]
  The Byzantine invasion
  
  During the conflict between the two, a Roman force sent by Justinian seized control of a large portion of Hispania Baetica (Andalusia). It is unclear what was the pretext for their arrival. Peter Heather states that Jordanes implies that Agila had summoned them.[3] Isidore of Seville offers two conflicting stories: in the section on Agila, the Goths surrounding him killed him out of fear "that Roman soldiers might invade Spain on the pretext of giving help"; while in the following section Isidore states Athanagild had asked Justinian for his help, but once they arrived in Spain "he was unable to remove them from the territory of the kingdom despite his efforts."[4] Collins notes that "in both of the emperor Justinian's other western interventions, Africa in 533 and Italy in 535, he came in ostensibly to uphold the rights of legitimate monarchs against usurpers", thus agreeing with Jordanes' version of the events.[2]
  
  Although Athanagild recovered a few cities, the Romans held most of their conquest, which was organized as the province of Spania, long after the end of his reign. It is unclear the exact area this province covered. J. B. Bury states that it "comprised districts and towns to the west as well as to the east of the Straits of Gades" and included the cities of New Carthage (Cartagena), Corduba (Córdoba), and Assionia.[5] Peter Heather, while agreeing it included New Carthage and Assionia, is dubious about Corduba, and is certain Malaga, and Sagontia were included.[6] Collins agrees that Corduba was never under Byzantine control, nor was the Guadalquivir valley, stating that their principal strongholds were Medina Sidonia, Malaga and New Carthage.[7]
  
  Athanagild died of natural causes in Toledo, according to Isidore, then after an interregnum of five months Liuva I became king.[8]
  Dynastic alliances
  
  His queen Goiswintha gave him two daughters — Brunhilda and the murdered Galswintha — who were married to two Merovingian brother-kings: Sigebert I of Austrasia and Chilperic, king of the Neustrian Franks. Although Gregory of Tours states the reasons for this was that Sigebert disdained the prevalent practice of "taking wives who were completely unworthy of them", and sought the beautiful and cultured Brunhilda, while Chilperic married her sister out of sibling rivalry, Ian Wood points out that the circumstances and the scale of the morgengab suggest that the situation was more complex. "Athangild had no sons. By marrying two daughters to Frankish kings, he may have intended to involve the Merovingians in the Visigothic succession. Perhaps he hoped that the marriages would produce grandsons who could succeed him."[9]
  
  However Athanagild's death in 567 altered the situation. Wood speculates that the date of Galswintha's murder followed soon after his death.[10] 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

• He died in the year 567 in Toledo, he was 57 years old.
• A child of Gesalic I der Visigothen
• This information was last updated on January 23, 2013.

Household of Athanagildo der Visigothen

(1) He is married to Godesvinda Balthes der Visigothen.

They got married.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Galswinthe der Visigothen  530-568
2. NN der Visigothen  530-????
3. Brunhilda der Visigothen  534-613 

(2) He is married to NN.

They got married.

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