Roderick, King of the Visigoths, -711?

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Name (Latin)
Roderick, King of the Visigoths, -711?
Other forms of name
Rodrigo, King of the Visigoths, -711?
Rodrigue, King of the Visigoths, -711?
Rudericus, King of the Visigoths, -711?
Roderick, King of the Visigoths, d. 711?
nnaa Rodrigo, King of the Visigoths, fl. 709-711
Rodrigo, King of the Visigoths, d. 711?
Rodrigue, King of the Visigoths, d. 711?
Rudericus, King of the Visigoths, d. 711?
Date of birth
0688
Date of death
0711-07
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 316428596
Wikidata: Q243573
Library of congress: n 85051926
Sources of Information
  • Sánchez-Albornoz, C. Donde y cuando murió don Rodrigo ... 1945:t.p. (Rodrigo, último rey de los godos) p. 6, etc. (may have died in battle in 713) p. 7 (Rudericus) p. 105 (author concludes that he died 7/23/711)
  • Espasa(Rodrigo, last king of the Visigoths; elected king in 708 or 709; killed in battle, probably 713)
  • Esperabe. Encic. ilus. y crítico, 1957(Rodrigo; Visigoth king of Spain; killed in battle, 713)
  • Encyc. Brit., 15th ed.(Roderick, last Visigothic king in Spain; d. 711)
  • LC manual cat., 2/27/85(hdg.: Rodrigo, King of the Visigoths, fl. 709-711; refs.: Rodrigue, Roderick)

Wikipedia description:

Roderic (also spelled Ruderic, Roderik, Roderich, or Roderick; Spanish and Portuguese: Rodrigo, Arabic: لذريق, romanized: Ludharīq; 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.

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