Atanagildo

• Not the same as Atanagildo, rey de los visigodos
• Disputed as husband of Flavia Juliana
• Speculative father of Ardabasto.
• Not a known king of the Visigoths

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The photo is of Athanagild I not subject of this profile. Athanagild II, purportedly son the Hermenegild and Ingund was taken to Constantinople on the death of his father, raised there by Emperor Mauricius and subsequently married his niece, Flavia Juliana.

Charles Cawley’s Project Medieval Lands. SPAIN: VANDALS, SUEVI & VISIGOTHS v4.0 Updated 28 February 2019 “Chapter 3. VISIGOTHS in SPAIN 531-711.”

King Leovigildo & his first wife had two children:

1. HERMENEGILDO “the Holy” ([550/55]-murdered Tarragona 13 Apr 586). … The Iohannis Abbatis Biclarensis Chronica records that Hermenegildo was sent into exile in 584 and in 585 was killed "in urbe Tarraconensi" by "Sisberto"[224]. He was canonised in 1586.

m (579) INGUNDIS [Ingonde] of the Franks, daughter of SIGEBERT I King of the Franks & his wife Brunechildis of the Visigoths ([567/68]-in Africa Autumn 586). ... She fled to Africa with her son after her husband was killed, seeking refuge with the Eastern Emperor[229].

Hermenegildo and his wife had one child:

• a) son . Paulus Diaconus records that, after Ingundis was captured following her husband's death, "filius eius" was handed over to Emperor Mauricius and taken to Constantinople[230]. same person as…? ATANAGILDO. Salazar y Castro, in his genealogical table of the Visigothic kings, shows "Atanagildo" as the son of Hermenegildo, as well as his marriage to "Flavia Juliana hija de Pedro Augusto, hermano del Emperador Mauricio", and their sons "Paulo" and "Ardavasto", as well as the latter´s marriage to "prima, hija o hermana del Rey Cindasuindo"[231] (see below). The primary sources on which these statements are based are not specified. The table includes numerous errors and the information should therefore be viewed with caution.

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Family notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingund_(wife_of_Hermenegild)

17th-century Spanish genealogist Luis Bartolomé de Salazar y Castro gave Ardabast's father as Athanagild, the son of Saint Hermenegild and Ingund, and his mother as Flavia Juliana, a daughter of Peter Augustus and niece of the Emperor Maurice.[20] This imperial connection is disputed by Christian Settipani, who says that the only source for Athanagild's marriage to Flavia Julia is José Pellicer, who he claims to be a forger.[21]

• 20. Luis de Salazar y Castro, Historia Genealógica de la Casa de Lara (Madrid, 1696) vol. I, p. 45. < Archive.Org >
• 21. Christian Settipani, Les ancêtres de Charlemagne, p. 431.

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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermenegildo

According to traditional genealogy, from his marriage to the Frankish princess Ingunda was born Prince Atanagildo, who in turn married Flavia Juliana, paternal niece of the Byzantine emperor Mauricio, the latter would be the parents of Paulo Ardabasto, whose son of the Goth king Ervigio. Based on this genealogy, the kings of Asturias and León (Astur-Leonese d'adinasia), the kings of Pamplona and the first kings of Aragon were considered, as well as the counts of Castile, descendants of San Hermenegildo.7 However, this genealogy has been discussed.

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References

• https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib/historia/monarquia/visigodos.s... (Atanagildo ll is not listed as king)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom (No Atanagildo ll is listed)

Está sucesión genealógica es presuntiva según los tratadistas Francisco Piferrer y Luis Vilar y Pascual