Visigothic Kingdom

(noun)

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, the Kingdom maintained independence from the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. During its existence, Catholicism coalesced in Spain.

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  • The Reconquista

    • In 711 an Islamic Berber raiding party, led by Tariq ibn Ziyad, was sent to Iberia to intervene in a civil war in the Visigothic Kingdom.
    • Tariq's army crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and won a decisive victory in the summer of 711 when the Visigothic King Roderic was defeated and killed 19 at the Battle of Guadalete.
    • The Taifa kingdoms lost ground to the Christian realms in the north.
    • Although the period of rule by the Visigothic Kingdom (ca. 5th-8th century) saw the brief spread of Arianism, Catholic religion coalesced in Spain at the time.
    • In 587, the Visigothic king at Toledo, Reccared, converted to Catholicism and launched a movement in Spain to unify the various religious doctrines that existed in the land.

  • Theoderic the Great

    • At Zeno's encouragement, Theoderic invaded Odoacer's kingdom.
    • For much of his reign, Theoderic was the de facto king of the Visigoths as well, becoming regent for the infant Visigothic king, his grandson Amalaric, following the defeat of Alaric II by the Franks under Clovis in 507.
    • The term "Visigoth" was actually an invention of this period.
    • He had married off his daughter Amalasuntha to the Visigoth Eutharic, but Eutharic died in August 522 or 523, so no lasting dynastic connection of Ostrogoths and Visigoths was established.
    • The Ostrogothic Kingdom (in yellow) at the death of Theoderic the Great in 526 AD.

  • The Germanic Tribes

    • Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and Lombards made their way into Italy; Vandals, Burgundians, Franks, and Visigoths conquered much of Gaul; Vandals and Visigoths also pushed into Spain, with the Vandals additionally making it into North Africa; and the Alamanni established a strong presence in the middle Rhine and Alps.
    • The Germanic Kingdoms and the Eastern Roman Empire in 526 CE

  • Charlemagne's Reforms

    • The pan-European nature of Charlemagne's influence is indicated by the origins of many of the men who worked for him: Alcuin, an Anglo-Saxon from York; Theodulf, a Visigoth, probably from Septimania; Paul the Deacon, a Lombard; Peter of Pisa and Paulinus of Aquileia, both Italians; and Angilbert, Angilram, Einhard, and Waldo of Reichenau, Franks.
    • Letters have been credited to him inviting Jews to settle in his kingdom for economic purposes, generally welcoming them through his overall progressive policies.
    • The Frankish kingdom was subdivided by Charlemagne into three separate areas to make administration easier.
    • These areas, Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgandy, were the inner "core" of the kingdom and were supervised directly by the missatica system and the itinerant household.
    • Charlemagne also created two sub-kingdoms in Aquitaine and Italy, ruled by his sons Louis and Pepin respectively.

  • The United Kingdom and Appeasement

  • The Development of Papal Supremacy

    • The creation of the term "papal supremacy" dates back to the 6th century, at the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which was the beginning of the rise of the bishops of Rome to not just the position religious authority, but the power to be the ultimate ruler of the kingdoms within the Christian community (Christendom), which it has since retained.
    • Other tribes, such as the Visigoths, later abandoned Arianism in favor of Catholicism.

  • The United Kingdom in the Middle East

  • Three Kingdoms Period

    • The Three Kingdoms of Korea included the Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla Kingdoms from roughly the first century BCE to the 7th century CE.
    • All three kingdoms shared a similar culture and language.
    • Baekje was a kingdom located in southwest Korea that alternately battled and allied with Goguryeo and Silla as the three kingdoms expanded control over the peninsula.
    • The Silla Kingdom was the most isolated kingdom from the Korean peninsula because it was situated in the southeast part of the peninsula; the kingdom was also the last to adopt Buddhism and foreign cultural influences.
    • The Silla Kingdom tombs were mostly inaccessible to looters, and so many examples of Korean art have been preserved from this kingdom.

  • Historical Overview of Eukaryotes

    • They were given the taxonomic rank of Kingdom (biology) by Linnaeus.
    • Although he included the fungi with plants with some reservations, it was later realized that they are quite distinct and warrant a separate kingdom, the composition of which was not entirely clear until the 1980's.
    • They were given their own kingdom, the Protista, by Ernst Haeckel in 1866.
    • The eukaryotes came to be composed of four kingdoms: Kingdom Protista, Kingdom Plantae, Kingdom Fungi, and Kingdom Animalia.
    • The disentanglement of the deep splits in the tree of life only really got going with DNA sequencing, leading to a system of domains rather than kingdoms as top level rank being put forward by Carl Woese, uniting all the eukaryote kingdoms under the eukaryote domain .

  • Beatus Manuscripts

    • Mozarabic art features a combination of (Hispano) Visigothic and Islamic art styles, as in the Beatus manuscripts, which combine Insular art illumination forms with Arabic-influenced geometric designs .