Liuva I, rey de los visigodos

Liuva I, King of the Visigoths

• Reign: solo: 567–568; associated with Leovigildo: 568-571/572
• Predecessor Atanagildo
• Successor Leovigildo
• Death 572

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Biography

Liuva 1 died 570,[1] 571-572,[2] or 573[3]) was a Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania.

He was made king at Narbonne following the death of Athanagild in 567. Roger Collins notes this was the first time a Visigothic king is mentioned in the north-eastern region of the realm since 531, when Amalaric was murdered. He suggests Liuva's coronation near the border with the Franks was because of renewed threats from that neighbor; under Guntram, the Franks are known to have posed more of a threat to the Visigoths.[4] This threat would also explain why in the second year of his reign, Liuva made his younger brother Liuvigild both co-ruler and heir, putting him in direct charge of Hispania Citerior, or the eastern part of Hispania.[5]

The Frankish threat may also explain why Liuva gave shelter to bishop Pronimius (modern French: Fronime). Gregory of Tours states Pronimius had left Bourges to live in Septimania "for some reason or other". Liuva made him bishop of Agde, an office he held into Liuvigild's reign. When that monarch attempted to assassinate him, Pronimius then fled back to Gaul, and eventually made his way to the court of the Frankish king Childebert, who then appointed Pronimius bishop of Vence.[6]

Liuva died in the third year of his rule from unrecorded causes.[7]

Family

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

Two brothers, parents not known.

• 1. LIUVA (-573). He was elected to succeed as LIUVA I King of the Visigoths, after a five months interregnum following the death of King Atanagildo[194]. Gregory of Tours records the succession of Liuva and Leovigildo his brother after the death of King Atanagildo[195]. Isidore of Seville records that Liuva was made king at Narbonne after the death of Atanagildo and ruled for three years[196]. The Iohannis Abbatis Biclarensis Chronica records that "Livva" succeeded "Athanaildus rex Gothorum in Hispania" in 568[197]. The Iohannis Abbatis Biclarensis Chronica records that he installed his brother Leovigildo "in regnum citerioris Hispaniæ" in 569[198], implying that Liuva remained king in Hispania ulterior (the western part of the Iberian peninsula) and in what remained of the Gallic territories of the Visigoths. The Iohannis Abbatis Biclarensis Chronica records the death in 573 of "Livva rex"[199]. The Chronica Regum Visigotthorum records that “Liuva” reigned for one year[200].
• 2. LEOVIGILDO (-Toledo [Apr/May] 586). Gregory of Tours records the succession of Liuva and Leovigildo his brother after the death of King Atanagildo[201]. He succeeded his brother in 573 as LEOVIGILDO King of the Visigoths. m firstly (550/555) --. … m secondly (569) as her second husband, GOSVINTA, widow of ATANAGILDO King of the Visigoths, daughter of --- (-589).

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References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuva_I cites

1. Walsh, P. G. (June 1967). "1. The Ruodlieb: The first medieval epic of chivalry from eleventh-century Germany. Translated by Gordon B. Ford. Pp. 104. Leiden: Brill, 1965. Paper, fl. 14. - 2. Isidore of Seville: History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi. Translated by Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford. Pp. viii+46. Leiden: Brill, 1966. Paper, fl. 12". The Classical Review. 17 (2): 235. doi:10.1017/s0009840x00324520. ISSN 0009-840X.
2. ^ Dates of death according to Peter Heather, The Goths (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), p. 279; however Isidore of Seville states Liuva died in 570 (Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum, chapter 48; translation in Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford, Isidore of Seville's History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi, second revised edition [Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970], pp. 22f)
3. ^ of Biclaro, Johannes (590). "Chronicon (Iohannes Biclarensis) - Wikisource". la.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
4. ^ Collins, Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity 400-1000, second edition (New York: St. Martins, 1995), p. 40
5. ^ John of Biclaro, Chronicle, 10. Translated in Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, second edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1990), p. 60
6. ^ Decem Libri Historiarum, IX.24; translated by Lewis Thorpe, History of the Franks (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), pp. 511f
7. ^ Peter Heather, The Goths (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), p. 279; Isidore of Seville, chapter 48; translation by Donini and Ford, pp. 22f

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuva_I

Liuva I (¿? – 572) fue rey de los visigodos (568–572), sucediendo a Atanagildo.

Tras un periodo de discusión de la nobleza, probablemente ya el mismo año del fallecimiento de Atanagildo (568) fue proclamado rey Liuva, que seguramente era el duque (dux) de la Galia Narbonense.

La mala situación del reino visigodo debió ser aprovechada por los francos, cuyos reyes Sigeberto I y Gontrán I se acercaron a Arlés probablemente 569. Gontrán sitió la plaza y tras una batalla victoriosa la tomó.

Liuva I asoció al trono a su hermano Leovigildo. Parece ser que entonces Liuva decidió controlar personalmente la frontera de Septimania, con el fin de evitar nuevas pérdidas, y se reservó esta provincia para sí. Tal vez también la parte de la Tarraconense bajo dominio visigodo, confiando el gobierno de las otras provincias (parte de la Cartaginense, Lusitania y parte de la Bética) a su hermano Leovigildo, probablemente en 569, poco después de los sucesos de Arlés.

Con esta decisión por parte Liuva, se rompió la tendencia de los anteriores reyes godos, que nada más llegar al poder siempre intentaban afianzarse en él. Su misión en el norte del reino fue la de detener las incursiones francas, que con la presencia de Liuva en la zona no organizaron más intentos de conquista sobre la Septimania, quedando Leovigildo pendiente de los bizantinos que tenían posesiones en el sur y el levante de Hispania y amenazaban con intentar conquistar nuevos territorios. Liuva, con su decisión de dividir el poder, sentó las bases para una recuperación económica del reino godo, además de preparar a Leovigildo para su futuro reinado en solitario.

Liuva murió probablemente en 572 y su hermano Leovigildo quedó como único rey.

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom