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Hermenegildo Rei Associado aos Visigodos
- Preferred Name: Hermenegildo Rei Associado aos Visigodos[1] [2] [3] [4]
- Gender: M
- Nickname:
- Burial: 585 in Tarragona, Kingdom of the Visigoths, HIspania at LATI: N1.1295 LONG: E0.2527
- martirizado: 595 with note: Description: Quando o Rei de Sevilha, a mando de seu pai e de sua madastra Gosunta, viuva de Atanagildo (15Rei visigodo) por ser cato
- Religion: Roman Catholic -Sainted for upholding the faith and suffering death for it.1586
- Birth: 564 in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Castilla y León, España at LATI: N1.3074 LONG: E4.9149
- Religion: Converted to Catholicism under Archbishop Leandro of Seville -Baptized as "John"-580 in Seville, Kingdom of the Visigoths, Hispania at LATI: N7.3813 LONG: E5.9953
- Death+of+Hermenegild: 13 APR 585 with note: Description: King Liuvigild ordered him beheaded; he was executed on 13 April 585.[4]
- Death: 13 APR 585 in Sevilla, Andalucía, España at LATI: N7.447 LONG: E5.6961
- Religion: Saint Hermenegildo, the Holy
- FSID: G8JB-J55
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Rei-Associado dos Visigodos, 572-585.
Regente na Bética, dito, comumente, Rei de Sevilha.
m firstly ([550/55]) ---. The name of King Leovigildo´s first wife is not known. King Leovigildo & his first wife had two children:
1. HERMENEGILDO “the Holy” ([550/55]-murdered Tarragona 13 Apr 586). The Iohannis Abbatis Biclarensis Chronica names "duosque filios suos ex amissa coniuge Hermenegildem et Reccaredum" when recording that their father associated them in his rule in 573[220]. In 579, his father appointed Hermenegildo as Governor of Betica, based in Seville. Gregory of Tours records his conversion to Catholicism and baptism as "JOHN"[221].
He converted to Catholicism in Seville in 580 under the influence of Leandro, Archbishop of Seville[222]. He revolted against his father's Arian rule in 581, retired to Córdoba in 584, but was captured and exiled to Valencia. Isidore of Seville records that "his son Hermenegild" rebelled against his father who defeated him[223]. 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).
The Iohannis Abbatis Biclarensis Chronica records the marriage in 579 of "Leovegildus rex Hermenegildo filio" and "filiam Sisberti regis Francorum"[225]. Gregory of Tours records that one of the sons of Leovigildo by his first wife married the daughter of Sigebert King of the Franks, in a later passage naming her "Ingund", specifying that she married Hermenegildo, older son of Leovigildo, and that she was mistreated by her husband's stepmother[226].
Paulus Diaconus records that "Childebertus rex Ingundem sororem suam" married "Herminigildo, Levigildi Hispanorum regis filio", and that she fled Spain for France after the death of her husband but was captured and taken to Sicily where she died[227].
Gregory of Tours records that her father-in-law left her "to the good graces of the Greeks" after imprisoning her husband and was unable to "force the Greeks to hand" her over[228]. 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.
2. RECAREDO (-Toledo mid-Jun or Dec 601). The Iohannis Abbatis Biclarensis Chronica names "duosque filios suos ex amissa coniuge Hermenegildem et Reccaredum" when recording that their father associated them in his rule in 573[232]. He was elected to succeed his father in 586 as RECAREDO King of the Visigoths.
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Wikipedia -
Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild (died 13 April 585; Spanish: San Hermenegildo; Latin: Hermenegildus, from Gothic *Airmana-gild, "immense tribute"), was the son of king Liuvigild of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year. During his rebellion, he converted from Arianism to Chalcedonian Christianity. Hermenegild was defeated in 584 and exiled.[2] His death was later celebrated as a martyrdom due to the influence of Pope Gregory I's Dialogues, in which he portrayed Hermenegild as a "Catholic martyr rebelling against the tyranny of an Arian father."[3]
Marriage to Ingund
Hermenegild was the eldest son of Liuvigild and his first wife, Princess Theodosia (a Chalcedonian Christian.) [4] He was brother to Reccared I and brought up an Arian. Liuvigild made his sons co-regents.[5]
In 579 he married Ingund, daughter of the Frankish King Sigebert I of Austrasia who was a Chalcedonian Christian. Her mother was the Visigoth princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. The twelve-year-old Ingund was pressured by Hermenegild's stepmother Goiswintha to abjure her beliefs, but she stayed firm in her faith.[6]
Liuvigild sent Hermenegild to the south to govern on his behalf. There he came under the influence of Leander of Seville, older brother of Isidore of Seville. Hermenegild was converted to Chalcedonian Christianity. His family demanded that he return to Arianism, but he refused.
Around this time, he led a revolt against Liuvigild. Contemporary accounts attribute this to politics rather than primarily to religious differences.[7] He asked for the aid of the Byzantine Empire but they were occupied with defending against territorial incursions by the Sasanian Empire [8] For a time Hermenegild had the support of the Suebi, who had been defeated by Liuvigild in 579. However, Liuvigild forced them to capitulate once again in 583.[5]
Hermenegild fled to Seville and when that fell to a siege in 584 went to Córdoba. After Liuvigild paid 30,000 pieces of gold, the Byzantines withdrew, taking Ingund and her son with them.[5] Hermenegild sought sanctuary in a church. Liuvigild would not violate the sanctuary. He sent Reccared inside to speak with Hermenegild and to offer peace. This was accepted and peace was made for some time.[4]
Imprisonment and death
Goiswintha, however, brought about another alienation within the family. Hermenegild was imprisoned in Tarragona or Toledo. During his captivity in the tower of Seville, an Arian bishop was sent to Hermenegild for Easter but he would not accept the Eucharist from him.[9] King Liuvigild ordered him beheaded; he was executed on 13 April 585.[4]
=== Alternate birth year ===
0552
=== Hermenegildo,
Depois santificado, f. 58 ===
Hermenegildo,
Depois santificado, f. 585, martirizado.
Sabe-se por tradição, que Leandro, depois santificado, bispo de Sevilha, aí fundou um mosteiro, para o qual conseguiu atrair seus amigos e discípulos Hermenegildo e Recaredo, filhos de Leovigildo, Rei dos Visigodos de Espanha. Este, que era ariano, desencadeou contra os defensores do símbolo de Nicéia uma perseguição que em breve se converteu em \Guerra Civil. "Chegamos a ponto, escrevera Leandro, de já não haver um homem verdadeiramente livre em Espanha". Dos dois filhos de Leovigildo, um, Recaredo, tinha abjurado a fé católica; o outro, Hermenegildo, conservou-se fiel às lições de seu mestre. Tomou até a resolução de enviar Leandro a Constantinopla, a fim de pedir o auxílio de Maurício, Imperador bizantino. Seu pai, por isso, mandou matá-lo sob martírio e desterrou o bispo. Hermenegildo é o padroeiro de Sevilha, e é festejado a 13 de abril.
casamento
c.c. 579, Ingunda
=== San Hermenegildo Rey de España ===
"... príncipe de los godos. En 573 fue asociado por el rey su padre al trono, con el propósito de asegurarle un ascenso al mismosin mayores contratiempos. Ese mismo año casó con Ingunde... Como la pricesa franca era fervorosa católica convirtió a su marido a su religión, lo que, indignó profundamente a Leovigildo, quien era un furibundo arriano y de inmediato pretendió volver a su hijo al seno de sus propias creencias; ésto provocó la sublevación del príncipe, el cual resultó derrotado en Tarragona por las fuerzas reales; encerrado en la fortaleza de dicha ciudad el rey intentó hacerlo abjurar y como su hijo se negase nuevamente, lo hizo ejecutar en 585. Su esposa ayudada por los griegos logró huir con su pequeño hijo y refugiarse en la corte de Constantiniopla."
=== por ser catolico e seu pai querer obriga ===
por ser catolico e seu pai querer obriga-lo a abraçar a religião ariana.
Casou-se com Ingunda - sua parenta, filha de Segiberto- Rei da Austrasia (Lorena) e de Brunechilde- filha de Atanagildo - 15 Rei visigodo da Espanha.
=== Feast ===
April 13
Preferred Parents:
Father: Leogivild I Balthes, b. aproximadamente 0519 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain d. 21 de abril de 0586 in Espanha
Mother: Theodosia von Cartagena, b. 7 de fevereiro de 0525 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain d. 5 AUG 567 in Cartagena, Murcia, Kingdom of the Visigoths, España
Family 1: Ingund of Austrasia Queen of the Visigoths, b. 567 in Metz, Moselle, Kingdom of Austrasia, Frankish Empire d. 24-03-585 in Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
- m. 580 in Metz, Austrasia, France
- m. ABT 580 in ,,, Spain
- m. ABT 579
- m. in Soissons, France
- Antanagildo II dos Visigodos, b. ABT 580 in İstanbul, Turquia d. 630
Sources:
- Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/VANDALS,%20SUEVI,%20VISIGOTHS.htm#HermenegildoVisigothdied586;
Note: HERMENEGILDO “the Holy” ([550/55]-murdered Tarragona 13 Apr 586). The Iohannis Abbatis Biclarensis Chronica names "duosque filios suos ex amissa coniuge Hermenegildem et Reccaredum" when recording that their father associated them in his rule in 573[220]. In 579, his father appointed Hermenegildo as Governor of Betica, based in Seville. Gregory of Tours records his conversion to Catholicism and baptism as "JOHN"[221]. He converted to Catholicism in Seville in 580 under the influence of Leandro, Archbishop of Seville[222]. He revolted against his father's Arian rule in 581, retired to Córdoba in 584, but was captured and exiled to Valencia. Isidore of Seville records that "his son Hermenegild" rebelled against his father who defeated him[223]. 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). The Iohannis Abbatis Biclarensis Chronica records the marriage in 579 of "Leovegildus rex Hermenegildo filio" and "filiam Sisberti regis Francorum"[225]. Gregory of Tours records that one of the sons of Leovigildo by his first wife married the daughter of Sigebert King of the Franks, in a later passage naming her "Ingund", specifying that she married Hermenegildo, older son of Leovigildo, and that she was mistreated by her husband's stepmother[226]. Paulus Diaconus records that "Childebertus rex Ingundem sororem suam" married "Herminigildo, Levigildi Hispanorum regis filio", and that she fled Spain for France after the death of her husband but was captured and taken to Sicily where she died[227]. Gregory of Tours records that her father-in-law left her "to the good graces of the Greeks" after imprisoning her husband and was unable to "force the Greeks to hand" her over[228]. 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.
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Herminegild The Holy - birth: 0535; Spain
Author: One World Tree (sm), Ancestry.com, Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;, www.ancestry.com
Note: birth: 0535; Spain
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birth: 0535; Spain
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death: 13 April 0586; Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
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death: 13 April 0586; Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
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Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244922896
- Title: Catholic.org
Author: Walsh, Michael, ed. (1991). Butler's Lives of the Saints: Concise Edition, Revised and Updated. San Francisco: Harper. ISBN 0-06-069299-5. Innes, Matthew (2007). Introduction to Early Medieval Europe, 300-900. The sword, the plough and the book. Routledge. p. 552. ISBN 978-0-203-64491-1. Lives of the Saints: April 13 St. Hermenegild, Martyr Saint Hermenegild engraved by L. Beck, from De Verda collection Saint Hermenegild, Martyr at the Christian Iconography web site
Publication: Name: https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3738;
Note: Prince of Visigothic Spain, and martyr. He was the son of Leovigild the Visigoth, king of Spain, and was raised as an Arian. His wife, Indegundis, converted him from that heresy, which brought about his disinheritance by Leovigild and his defeat at Seville, Spain, by his father. When Hermenegild refused to accept Arianism, he was axed to death. His feast is now confined to local calendars.
For the given name, see Hermenegild (given name). For the Spanish military decoration, see Royal and Military Order of Saint Hermenegild.
Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild (died 13 April 585; Spanish: San Hermenegildo; Latin: Hermenegildus, from Gothic *Airmana-gild, "immense tribute"), was the son of king Liuvigild of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year. During his rebellion, he converted from Arianism to Chalcedonian Christianity. Hermenegild was defeated in 584 and exiled.[2] His death was later celebrated as a martyrdom due to the influence of Pope Gregory I's Dialogues, in which he portrayed Hermenegild as a "Catholic martyr rebelling against the tyranny of an Arian father."[3]
Marriage to Ingund
Hermenegild was the eldest son of Liuvigild and his first wife, Princess Theodosia (a Chalcedonian Christian.) [4] He was brother to Reccared I and brought up an Arian. Liuvigild made his sons co-regents.[5]
In 579 he married Ingund, daughter of the Frankish King Sigebert I of Austrasia who was a Chalcedonian Christian. Her mother was the Visigoth princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. The twelve-year-old Ingund was pressured by Hermenegild's stepmother Goiswintha to abjure her beliefs, but she stayed firm in her faith.[6]
Liuvigild sent Hermenegild to the south to govern on his behalf. There he came under the influence of Leander of Seville, older brother of Isidore of Seville. Hermenegild was converted to Chalcedonian Christianity. His family demanded that he return to Arianism, but he refused.
Around this time, he led a revolt against Liuvigild. Contemporary accounts attribute this to politics rather than primarily to religious differences.[7] He asked for the aid of the Byzantine Empire but they were occupied with defending against territorial incursions by the Sasanian Empire [8] For a time Hermenegild had the support of the Suebi, who had been defeated by Liuvigild in 579. However, Liuvigild forced them to capitulate once again in 583.[5]
Hermenegild fled to Seville and when that fell to a siege in 584 went to Córdoba. After Liuvigild paid 30,000 pieces of gold, the Byzantines withdrew, taking Ingund and her son with them.[5] Hermenegild sought sanctuary in a church. Liuvigild would not violate the sanctuary. He sent Reccared inside to speak with Hermenegild and to offer peace. This was accepted and peace was made for some time.[4]
Imprisonment and death
Goiswintha, however, brought about another alienation within the family. Hermenegild was imprisoned in Tarragona or Toledo. During his captivity in the tower of Seville, an Arian bishop was sent to Hermenegild for Easter but he would not accept the Eucharist from him.[9] King Liuvigild ordered him beheaded; he was executed on 13 April 585.[4]
- Title: Wikipedia - Hermenegildo
Author: Collins, Roger Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400-1000 Second Edition. New York: St. Martin's Press Thompson, E.A. The Goths in Spain. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969 Treadgold, Warren T. A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997 Gibbons, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume IV. London: The Folio Society Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks, England: Penguin Books Ltd. 1974
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingund_(wife_of_Hermenegild);
Note: Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild (died 13 April 585; Spanish: San Hermenegildo; Latin: Hermenegildus, from Gothic *Airmana-gild, "immense tribute"), was the son of king Liuvigild of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year. During his rebellion, he converted from Arianism to Chalcedonian Christianity. Hermenegild was defeated in 584 and exiled.[2] His death was later celebrated as a martyrdom due to the influence of Pope Gregory I's Dialogues, in which he portrayed Hermenegild as a "Catholic martyr rebelling against the tyranny of an Arian father."[3]
Marriage to Ingund
Hermenegild was the eldest son of Liuvigild and his first wife, Princess Theodosia (a Chalcedonian Christian.) [4] He was brother to Reccared I and brought up an Arian. Liuvigild made his sons co-regents.[5]
In 579 he married Ingund, daughter of the Frankish King Sigebert I of Austrasia who was a Chalcedonian Christian. Her mother was the Visigoth princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. The twelve-year-old Ingund was pressured by Hermenegild's stepmother Goiswintha to abjure her beliefs, but she stayed firm in her faith.[6]
Liuvigild sent Hermenegild to the south to govern on his behalf. There he came under the influence of Leander of Seville, older brother of Isidore of Seville. Hermenegild was converted to Chalcedonian Christianity. His family demanded that he return to Arianism, but he refused.
Around this time, he led a revolt against Liuvigild. Contemporary accounts attribute this to politics rather than primarily to religious differences.[7] He asked for the aid of the Byzantine Empire but they were occupied with defending against territorial incursions by the Sasanian Empire [8] For a time Hermenegild had the support of the Suebi, who had been defeated by Liuvigild in 579. However, Liuvigild forced them to capitulate once again in 583.[5]
Hermenegild fled to Seville and when that fell to a siege in 584 went to Córdoba. After Liuvigild paid 30,000 pieces of gold, the Byzantines withdrew, taking Ingund and her son with them.[5] Hermenegild sought sanctuary in a church. Liuvigild would not violate the sanctuary. He sent Reccared inside to speak with Hermenegild and to offer peace. This was accepted and peace was made for some time.[4]
Imprisonment and death
Goiswintha, however, brought about another alienation within the family. Hermenegild was imprisoned in Tarragona or Toledo. During his captivity in the tower of Seville, an Arian bishop was sent to Hermenegild for Easter but he would not accept the Eucharist from him.[9] King Liuvigild ordered him beheaded; he was executed on 13 April 585.[4]
See also
Saint Hermenegild, patron saint archive
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