Recilo de Córdoba

Not the mother of Favila, duque de Cantabria

Marriage

THEODOFREDO ([645/53]-after 702). m. (after 687) Ricilo UNKNOWN.

Issue: 4[3]

1. Rodrigo, King of the Visigoths: Spain (688/90 Córdoba - 20 Jul 711 Guadalete). m. Egilona "Eilo"[4]
2. ____ (unknown)
3. dau ______ (unknown)
4. (disputed) Fafila (d. ante 702)[5]

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Family

SPAIN: VANDALS, SUEVI & VISIGOTHS". fmg.ac. Retrieved 2023-01-11

b) THEODOFREDO ([645/53]-after 702). The Chronicle of Alfonso III names "Theodefred…the son of King Chindasuinth, his father abandoning him at a young age", adding that King Egica ordered him to be blinded when he reached maturity[306], presumably aiming to exclude him from the succession in line with the practice in the Eastern Empire, where blindness was considered an impediment to ruling and therefore constituted an effective way of disempowering an opponent short of killing him (although many did succumb as a result of the treatment). It is not recorded whether the punishment was carried out. The same source records that Theodofredo settled in Córdoba. The Chronicle of Alfonso III records that he was murdered by Witiza King of the Visigoths[307]. m (after 687) RICILO, daughter of ---. The Chronicle of Alfonso III records that Theodefredo "chose a wife…Ricilo, from a noble family" during his exile[308]. Theodofredo & his wife had [four] children:

• i) RODRIGO (Córdoba [688/90]-killed in battle Guadalete [20] Jul 711). … He was elected to succeed in 710 as RODRIGO King of the Visigoths in Spain. … m as her first husband, EGILONA [Eilo], daughter of ---. She married secondly Abd al-Aziz, Governor of Seville.
• ii) [--- . m ---.] One child: (a) Ibn Abd-el-Hakem records that the governor of "a citadel called Faras two days' journey from Toledo" was "a nephew of Roderic", and that he yielded "the table" to Tarik ibn Zaid after his arrival in the city[324]. If Rodrigo's birth date is correctly estimated above, it is more likely that this "nephew" was a more remote relation than the son of one of his siblings, assuming that the report in this source is correct.]
• iii) [daughter . m ---.] One child: (a) BENGO (-killed in battle 711)
• iv) [FAFILA (-[murdered before 702]). Fáfila is shown in Europäische Stammtafeln[326] as the possible son of Theodefredo, but the primary source on which this information is based has not been identified. … According to Barrau-Dihigo, Fáfila's alleged possible family relationship with the Visigothic kings was an invention of the 18th century [327]. Assuming the manner of Fáfila's death is as described, he must have been killed before Witiza's accession as king in 702.]

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References

• https://fabpedigree.com/s088/f415171.htm (not a reliable source)
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Balthes_Des_WISIGOTHS-1