General Notes

# Event: Titled BET 567 AND 586 King of the Visigoths
# Event: Titled 583 Regent of Galicia
# Event: Titled 583 Regent of Lusitania
# Event: Event 577 Invaded the kingdom of the Suevi, and forced King Ariamiro to accept a disadvantageous peace.
# Event: Event 583 After the death of Ariamiro, acted as Regent in Lusitania and Galicia for Ariamiro's son and heir, Eburico.
# Event: Event 583 Endeca usurps the Suevi throne and sends Eburico to become a Benedictine monk in the Monastery of Dume.
# Event: Event 585 As regent, overthrows the usurper Endeca, but rather than restoring Endeca to the throne, he annexes the Suevi territory into the Visigothic Kingdom.
# Event: Event 585 Cuts Endeca's hair and forces him to become a Benedictine monk in the Monastery of Dume (the same actions that Endeca had done to young Eburico)
# Religion: Arianism
# Event: Relationship to Spouse Step-son (to Godesvinda)
# Note:

Made Toledo the Visigoth capital. Pushed back the Byzantine Empire and conquered the kingdom of the Suevi 575.

Regarding Suevi:

Suevi, collective name for a number of German tribes (including the Marcomanni and Lombards), mentioned in the 1st century BC by Julius Caesar as dwelling east of the Rhine River. The Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus described (1st century AD) them as inhabiting all central Germany. One group of Suevi allied themselves with the Vandals and the Alans and swept down on the Iberian Peninsula in AD 407. By 411 they were established in northern Portugal and Galicia and by 452 in Castile. They adopted Catholic Christianity and ruled until the end of the 6th century when they were finally subjugated by the Visigoths. The Suevi who remained in Germany are the ancestors of the medieval Swabians. The name is also spelled Suebi.

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