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Reccared I
King of Hispania, Septimania and Gallaecia
Imaginary portrait of Reccared I by an unknown artist. dated between 1312-1325
King of the Visigoths
Reign
21 April 586 – 21 December 601
Predecessor
Liuvigild
Successor
Liuva II
Born
c. 559 AD[citation needed] Hispania
Died
21 December 601 Toledo, Hispania
Spouse
Baddo
Issue
Liuva II Suintila Geila
Names
Flavius Reccaredus
Father
Liuvigild
Mother
Theodosia
Religion
Arianism, later Chalcedonian Christianity
Reccared I (or Recared; Latin: Flavius Reccaredus; Spanish: Flavio Recaredo; c. 559 – December 601; reigned 586–601) was Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania. His reign marked a climactic shift in history, with the king's renunciation of Arianism in favour of Roman Christianity in 587.
of Roman Christianity in 587. Reccared was the younger son of King Leovigild by his first wife. Like his father, Reccared had his capital at Toledo. The...
twice: first to Theodosia, who gave birth to two sons, Hermenegild and ReccaredI, and after her death, to Athanagild's widow Goiswintha. Almost every single...
relationships with Rome. Liuva II, age 18, succeeds his father ReccaredI as king of the Visigoths. Reccared dies a natural death at the capital in Toledo after...
603), son of ReccaredI and possibly Baddo, was Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Gallaecia from 601 to 603. He succeeded ReccaredI at only eighteen...
ordered by the Visigothic king Liuvigild to honor his son Reccared and to serve as Reccared's seat as co-king in the Visigothic province of Celtiberia...
of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia from 621 to 631. He was a son of ReccaredI and his wife Bado, and a brother of the general Geila. Under Suintila...
confession of King Reccared was read aloud by a notary. Its theological precision defining Trinitarian and Arian tenets, establishing Reccared's newly achieved...
orthodoxy. This trend began in 496 with Clovis I of the Franks, then ReccaredI of the Visigoths in 587 and Aripert I of the Lombards in 653. The Franks and the...
to the Roman emperors. Reccared also fought the Byzantines in Hispania Baetica after they had begun a new offensive. Reccared's son Liuva II became king...
under the years 579 and 589. The wife of ReccaredI subscribed to the canons of the Third Council of Toledo as "I, Baddo, glorious queen" (ego Baddo, gloriosa...
at Toledo after an 18-year reign, and is succeeded by his second son ReccaredI. Slavs advance to the gates of Thessaloniki and the Peloponnese. Avars...
dominant body in determining the Visigothic succession since the reign of ReccaredI. The palatine officials, however, had not been much affected by royal...
build by the Visigothic king Leovigild to honor his son ReccaredI and to serve as Reccared's seat as co-king in the Visigothic province of Celtiberia...
conversion of ReccaredI in 587, and in Lombard-held Italy, after some back-and-forth, following the death of King Rothari in 652. Pope Gregory I (590-604)...
the appearance of the Our Lady of the Pillar and the conversion of King ReccaredI to Catholicism; Saint Ferdinand and Saint Hermenegild are represented...
obedience from Waroch II and demands 1,000 solidus for looting Nantes. King ReccaredI renounces Arianism and adopts Catholicism. Many Visigothic nobles follow...
Kingdom of Toledo converted officially from Arianism to Catholicism, king ReccaredI stated in its minutes that also "an infinite number of Suebi have converted"...
of his province in parallel with the Catholic hierarchy. Early in 589, ReccaredI sent word of his conversion to Catholicism to Septimania, where it incited...
by the present-day Alameda de Hercules. In 586, Leuvigild's other son ReccaredI acceded to the throne and with Spali itself went on to enjoy a time of...
anti-Arian addition, by the Third Council of Toledo (589), at which King ReccaredI and some Arians in his Visigothic Kingdom converted to orthodox, Catholic...
consort once more, and stepmother to her husband's sons Hermenegild and ReccaredI. Goiswintha was an influential personality in the royal court. In 579...
Constantine of Dumnonia Saint Constantine of Strathclyde Rædwald of East Anglia ReccaredI, king of visigoths, and Hermenegild, sub-king in Baetica, converted from...
at Toledo after an 18-year reign, and is succeeded by his second son ReccaredI. Slavs advance to the gates of Thessaloniki and the Peloponnese. Avars...
they would be Christians. The Third Council of Toledo, called by King ReccaredI of the Visigoths, renounces Arianism and embraces Catholicism. The Council...
400. The "third" synod of 589 marked the epoch-making conversion of King Reccared from Arianism to Orthodox Chalcedonian Christianity. The "fourth", in 633...
peninsula. Pyeongwon becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo. ReccaredI, king of the Visigoths (d. 601) Wu Shihuo, father of Wu Zetian (d. 635)...