Sisebut
Sign in to savethumb|Statue (as imagined) of Sisebut in Toledo, Spain|Toledo Sisebut (; ; also Sisebuth, Sisebur, Sisebod or Sigebut; 565 – February 621) was King of the Visigoths and ruler of Hispania, Gallaecia, and Septimania from 612 until his death in 621. His rule was marked by forced Christian conversion, anti-Judaic measures, Roman-like administration, and intellectual cosmopolitanism.
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Sisebut was a male human born in 565 who served as the king of Wisigoths and held citizenship in Spain. He was a sovereign, writer, and biographer who wrote in Latin. His notable work includes the Letters of Sisebut.
He died on February 1, 621, in Toledo. Sisebut had two children, including Reccared II. He is described by the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
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It is catalogued under topics including 621 deaths, 7th-century astronomers and 7th-century poets.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Letters of Sisebut
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Sisebut
- Royalty.title
- King of Hispania, Septimania and Gallaecia
- Royalty.image
- File:Sisebut1.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Golden Tremissis of Sisebutus rex
- Royalty.succession
- King of the Visigoths
- Royalty.reign
- February/March 612 – February 621
- Royalty.predecessor
- Gundemar
- Royalty.successor
- Reccared II
- Royalty.birth_date
- 565
- Royalty.death_date
- February 621 (aged 56)
- Royalty.spouse
- Unknown
- Royalty.issue
- Reccared II
- Royalty.religion
- Chalcedonian Christianity
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of death
- Toledo
- Occupation
- biographer
- Position held
- king of Wisigoths
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Image
- Sisebuto, rey de los Visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Sisebuto
- date of death
- 0621-02-01
- date of birth
- 0565-00-00
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- writing language
- Latin
Sources (2)
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Sisebut, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Biography
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
thumb|Statue (as imagined) of Sisebut in Toledo, Spain|Toledo Sisebut (; ; also Sisebuth, Sisebur, Sisebod or Sigebut; 565 – February 621) was King of the Visigoths and ruler of Hispania, Gallaecia, and Septimania from 612 until his death in 621. His rule was marked by forced Christian conversion, anti-Judaic measures, Roman-like administration, and intellectual cosmopolitanism.
==Biography== According to a passage in the Chronicle of Fredegar, prior to being named king of the Visigoths, Sisebut reportedly captured Cantabria from the Franks; which is a puzzling entry, since this region was already part of the Visigothic kingdom under Leovigild. Nonetheless, it can be said that, during his reign, Sisebut campaigned successfully against the remnants of Byzantine power in Spania, strengthened Visigothic control over the Basques and Cantabrians, developed friendly relations with the Lombards of Italy, and reinforced the fleet that had been established by his predecessor, Leovigild. Most all of the territories in the Iberian Peninsula originally seized by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian during his campaigns into the former Western Roman Empire were taken back by Sisebut, with the exception of the Algarve.
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