Remismund, king of the Suevi

Biography

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

Remismund (or Rimismund) (died 469) was the Suevic king of Galicia from c. 464 until his death.

According to Isidore of Seville, Remismund was a son of Maldras.[1].

Remismund's early career was spent as an ambassador between Galicia and Gaul, which trip he made several times.[2] After an interregnum of approximately four years (460–464), during which the Sueves who had previously recognised Maldras as king were led by Frumar and those who had recognised Framta followed Rechimund while both their leaders fought for the throne, Remismund, returning from one of his embassies, succeeded in having himself recognised as king of a unified Suevic people.[2] This occurred after Frumar's death, but scholars are not certain of the significance of that statement.[2] Had Frumar become sole king? Or did Remismund initially succeed Frumar only over part of the Suevic nation? Furthermore, Remismund is sometimes identified with Rechimund.[2]

Remismund was confirmed in the kingship when the Visigothic monarch, Theodoric II, sent him gifts, including weapons, and a Gothic princess for a wife.[3] The involvement of Theodoric in the succession of Remismund has, however, been exaggerated by Jordanes, who claims that after the Gothic king put down the revolt and usurpation of Aioulf, he allowed the Suevi to elect a king of their own, and they chose Remismund.[3] In 466, on the authority of Hydatius, Theodoric sent an envoy, Salla, to the court of Remismund.[4] Remismund may have sent one Palagorius, a noble Galician, as an envoy to Theodoric, but it is possible that Palagorius went on a private mission.[5]

In 465 he sacked Coimbra or Conímbriga and in 468 destroyed it, plundering the goods of a noble family called the Cantabri.[6] In 469 the city of Lisbon was betrayed to the Suevi by a native Roman named Lusidius. Also in 469 Remismund began negotiations with the Roman Emperor Anthemius through a large embassy of Sueves led by Lusidius.[5]

In 466 he requested an Arian missionary from the Gothic court and received Ajax, a Gaul or Galatian, who converted the Suevic nobility and established an Arian church in Galicia.[7]

Genealogy

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/VANDALS,%20SUEVI,%20VISIGOTHS.htm

REMISMUNDO (-469). He enjoyed closed relations with the Visigoths after his marriage and was recognised as REMISMUNDO King of the Suevi in Spain in 465 by Theoderic II King of the Visigoths. Isidor's Historia Gothorum, Wandalorum, Sueborum records that, after the death of Frumario, "Remismundus" succeeded as king of the Suevi in Spain[97]. The Chronicon of Bishop Idatius records that “Remismundus” united the Suevi in 465 after the death of “Frumario”[98]. He rejected the Visigoth alliance in order to expand Suevi territories and captured Lisbon in 468[99]. After the death of King Remismundo, there are no contemporary sources which chronicle the succeeding kings of the Suevi until 561, which may indicate that their territory enjoyed a period of peaceful isolation from the rest of the Iberian peninsula[100]. [101]m ([465]) ---, a Visigoth. The primary source which confirms her origin and marriage has not yet been identified.

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remismund cites
  • Arias, Jorge C. "Identity and Interactions: The Suevi and the Hispano-Romans." University of Virginia: Spring 2007.< PDF >
  • Thompson, E. A. Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. ISBN 0-299-08700-X.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Suebi
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Galician_monarchs
• Medlands - KINGS of the SUEVI in SPAIN 411-585 https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/VANDALS,%20SUEVI,%20VISIGOTHS.htm

Remismund (or Rimismund) (died 469) was the Suevic king of Galicia from c. 464 until his death.
According to Isidore of Seville, Remismund was a son of Maldras.[1]

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remismundo

De acordo com Isidoro de Sevilla, Remismundo, filho de Maldras, tornou-se o sétimo rei dos Suevos em 459 e reinou até à sua morte em 469.[1][2][3] Pouco depois da morte do seu pai, perdeu o controle do sul do país para Frumário um chefe militar que se intitulou o oitavo rei dos Suevos; Remismundo viu-se então obrigado a travar um guerra civil contra este e contra o general Requimundo que só terminou com as mortes dos seus opositores em 463.[2][3] O reino suevo foi então reunificado sob um único rei, Remismundo.[2][3]

Casou-se com a filha do rei visigodo Teodorico II. Converteu-se ao Arianismo em 465 e em 467, após o assassinato de Teodorico pelo seu irmão Eurico, mandou saquear Conímbriga. Em 468, ocupou Lisboa, acrescentando a cidade ao seu domínio sobre Coimbra, Egitânia e, por conseguinte, boa parte da Lusitânia. Com a sua morte em 469, inicia-se um período obscuro na história dos Suevos, do qual existem poucos vestígios ou informações.
Referências

Estallo, Ignasi Garces (1999). Historia antigua de Hispania (em espanhol). Barcelona: Edicions Universitat Barcelona. p. 178
Rovira, José Orlandis (2003). Historia del reino visigodo español (em espanhol). Madrid: Ediciones Rialp. p. 30

   Rubia, Beatriz Moya de la (2006). Vigilantes de Archivos, Bibliotecas Y Museos de la Xunta de Galicia Grupo V. Temario Y Test.e-book. (em espanhol). Sevilha: MAD-Eduforma. p. 136

Ligações externas

   Hydatii Episcopi Chronicon (em Latin)

   Regnal Chronologies -Teutões

   Genealogia da Europa - Ibéria

   Roma e Romania

   Estados Hispânicos

   Vândalos, Godos, Ostrogodos, Alanos e Suevos