Kingdom of the Visigoths

Kingdom of the Visigoths
Regnum Visigothorum
418–c. 720
Greatest extent of the Visigothic Kingdom, c. 500 (shown in orange, territory lost after Vouille shown in light orange).
Capital		Toulouse (until 507) Narbonne Barcelona Toledo
Languages		Vulgar Latin Gothic (spoken among elite)
Religion		Chalcedonian Christianity Arianism
Government		Monarchy
King
•	418–419	Wallia
•	418–451	Theodoric I
•	466–484	Euric
•	484-507	Alaric II
•	511–526	Theoderic the Great
•	714–c. 721	Ardo
History
•	Sack of Rome	410
•	Established	418
•	Battle of the Catalaunian Plains	451
•	Battle of Vouillé	507
•	Invasion by the Umayyads	711
•	Umayyad conquest of Gallia Narbonensis	c. 720
•	Battle of Covadonga	718 or 722
Area
•	620-710	600,000 km² (231,661 sq mi)
Preceded by Succeeded by Western Roman Empire Suebic Kingdom of Galicia Francia Umayyad Caliphate Kingdom of Asturias
Today part of		Spain  Portugal  France  Andorra  Gibraltar  Monaco

Monarchs of the Iberian Peninsula

al-Andalus (taifas)

Aragon Family tree

Asturias Family tree

Castile Family tree

Catalonia

Galicia

Granada

León Family tree

Majorca

Navarre Family tree

Portugal Family tree

Spain Medieval · Modern Family tree

Suebi

Valencia

Viguera

Visigoths Family tree

The Visigothic Kingdom or Kingdom of the Visigoths (Latin: Regnum Visigothorum) was a kingdom that occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries. One of the Germanic successor states to the Western Roman Empire, it was originally created by the settlement of the Visigoths under King Wallia in the province of Aquitaine in southwest France by the Roman government and then extended by conquest over all of the Iberian Peninsula. The Kingdom maintained independence from the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire, the attempts of which to re-establish Roman authority in Iberia were only partially successful and short-lived.

Sometimes referred to as the regnum Tolosanum or Kingdom of Toulouse after its capital Toulouse in modern historiography, the kingdom lost much of its territory in Gaul to the Franks in the early 6th century, save the narrow coastal strip of Septimania, but the Visigoth control of Iberia was secured by the end of that century with the submission of the Suebi. The kingdom of the 6th and 7th centuries is sometimes called the regnum Toletanum after the new capital of Toledo.

The ethnic distinction between the indigenous Hispano-Roman population and the Visigoths had largely disappeared by this time (the Gothic language lost its last and probably already declining function as a church language when the Visigoths converted to Catholicism in 589).Liber Iudiciorum (completed in 654) abolished the old tradition of having different laws for Romans and for Visigoths. Most of the Visigothic Kingdom was conquered by Arab Umayyad troops from North Africa in 711 AD, with only the northern reaches of Spain remaining in Christian hands. These gave birth to the medieval Kingdom of Asturias when a local landlord called Pelayo, most likely of Gothic origin, was elected Princeps by the Astures.