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Roderic
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Roderic (also spelled Ruderic, Roderik, Roderich, or Roderick; Spanish and , ; died July 711) was the Visigothic king in Hispania between 710 and 711. He is well known as "the last king of the Goths". He is an obscure figure about whom little can be said with certainty. He was the last Goth to rule from Toledo, but not the last Gothic king, a distinction which belongs to Ardo.
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Roderic, also known by the native name Rodericus, was a male sovereign of the Visigothic Kingdom. Born in Córdoba in 688, he held the noble title of king of Wisigoths and duke. He died in 711 at Medina Sidonia and was buried in Viseu. His spouse was Egilona.
The subject is described in sources including the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and The Nuttall Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Key facts
- Royalty.caption
- Roderic depicted as one of the "six kings" in an Umayyad fresco in Qasr Amra, modern-day Jordan, from between 710 and 750. Roderic is the second figure, his face completely lost, with only the tip of his helmet and his robes being visible.
- Royalty.succession
- King of the Visigoths
- Royalty.reign
- 710 – July 711
- Royalty.predecessor
- Wittiza
- Royalty.successor
- Achila II
- Royalty.birth_date
- after 687
- Royalty.death_date
- July 711
- Royalty.death_place
- Visigothic Kingdom
- Royalty.spouse
- Egilona
- Royalty.father
- Theodefred
- Royalty.mother
- Riccilo
- Royalty.name
- Roderic
- Royalty.title
- King of Hispania, Septimania and Gallaecia
- Royalty.image
- File:Amra5.jpg
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Visigothic Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Córdoba
- Place of death
- Medina Sidonia
- Spouse
- Egilona
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Position held
- king of Wisigoths
- Noble title
- duke
- Image
- Don Rodrigo, rey de los visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg
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- Commons category
- Rodrigo
- date of death
- 0711-07-00
- date of birth
- 0688-01-01
- place of burial
- Viseu
- name in native language
- Rodericus
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Succession
- Usurpation
- Division of the kingdom
- War with the Muslims
- In legend and literature
- References
- Citations
- Sources
Roderic (also spelled Ruderic, Roderik, Roderich, or Roderick; Spanish and , ; died July 711) was the Visigothic king in Hispania between 710 and 711. He is well known as "the last king of the Goths". He is an obscure figure about whom little can be said with certainty. He was the last Goth to rule from Toledo, but not the last Gothic king, a distinction which belongs to Ardo.
Roderic's election as king was disputed and he ruled only a part of Hispania while an opponent, Achila, ruled the rest. He faced a rebellion from the Basques and the Umayyad invasion, during which he was defeated and killed at the Battle of Guadalete. His widow, Egilona, is believed to have married Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa, the first Muslim governor of Hispania.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roderic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.