Liuva I, illustration from a 15th-century copy of the Semblanzas de reyes
Rex Hispania
Reign
c. December 567 – 572/573
Predecessor
Athanagild
Successor
Liuvigild
Died
572/573
Religion
Arianism
Liuva I (died 572/573)[1] 571–572,[2] or 573[3]) was a Visigothic King of 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 king is mentioned in the north-eastern region of the realm since 531, when Amalaric was murdered. He suggests Liuva's coronation near the border with the Franks was because of renewed threats from that neighbor; under Guntram, the Franks are known to have posed more of a threat to the Visigoths.[4] This threat would also explain why in the second year of his reign, Liuva made his younger brother Liuvigild both co-ruler and heir in 569, putting him in direct charge of Hispania Citerior, or the eastern part of Hispania.[5]
The Frankish threat may also explain why Liuva gave shelter to bishop Pronimius (modern French: Fronime). Gregory of Tours states Pronimius had left Bourges to live in Septimania "for some reason or other". Liuva made him bishop of Agde, an office he held into Liuvigild's reign. When that monarch attempted to assassinate him, Pronimius then fled back to Gaul, and eventually made his way to the court of the Frankish king Childebert, who then appointed Pronimius bishop of Vence.[6]
Liuva's year of death is disputed. He either died in the third year of his rule from unrecorded causes or a few years later, somewhere between 570–573.[7]
^Walsh, P. G. (June 1967). "1. The Ruodlieb: The first medieval epic of chivalry from eleventh-century Germany. Translated by Gordon B. Ford. Pp. 104. Leiden: Brill, 1965. Paper, fl. 14. - 2. Isidore of Seville: History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi. Translated by Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford. Pp. viii+46. Leiden: Brill, 1966. Paper, fl. 12". The Classical Review. 17 (2): 235. doi:10.1017/s0009840x00324520. ISSN 0009-840X.
^Dates of death according to Peter Heather, The Goths (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), p. 279; however Isidore of Seville states Liuva died in 572/573 (Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum, chapter 48; translation in Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford, Isidore of Seville's History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi, second revised edition [Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970], pp. 22f)
^Collins, Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity 400-1000, second edition (New York: St. Martins, 1995), p. 40
^John of Biclaro, Chronicle, 10. Translated in Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, second edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1990), p. 60
^Decem Libri Historiarum, IX.24; translated by Lewis Thorpe, History of the Franks (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), pp. 511f
^Peter Heather, The Goths (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), p. 279; Isidore of Seville, chapter 48; translation by Donini and Ford, pp. 22f
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