Sisenand
Sign in to saveSisenand (Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese: Sisenando; ) ( 605 – 12 March 636) was the Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia from 631 to 636.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Sisenand
- Royalty.title
- King of the Visigoths
- Royalty.image
- File:Sisenando, rey de los Visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Imaginary portrait of Sisenand, by Bernardino Montañés (oil on canvas, 1856)
- Royalty.succession
- King of Hispania
- Royalty.reign
- 26 March 631 – 12 March 636
- Royalty.predecessor
- Suintila
- Royalty.successor
- Chintila
- Royalty.birth_date
- 605
- Royalty.death_date
- 12 March 636 (aged 30/31)
- Royalty.religion
- Chalcedonian Christianity
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Toledo
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Position held
- king of Wisigoths
- Noble title
- king of Wisigoths
- Image
- Sisenado-rey-visigodo.png
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- Commons category
- Sisenando
- date of death
- 0636-03-12
- date of birth
- 0605-00-00
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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- Reign
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Sisenand (Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese: Sisenando; ) ( 605 – 12 March 636) was the Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia from 631 to 636.
==Reign== Sisenand was the governor of Septimania, when the nobles revolted against the Visigothic king, Suintila, over the latter's confiscations of lands and distribution of privileges between the nobility and clergy. Sisenand joined the rebellion and overthrew Suintila with the aid of Dagobert I, King of the Franks, to whom Gothic nobles offered a plate of pure gold in return, weighing 500 pounds. The plate was allegedly a gift that Aetius, a Roman general, gave to Thorismund, then king of the Visigoths, in 451. After successfully overthrowing Suintila and capturing Zaragoza on 26 March 631, Sisenand proclaimed himself king. The victory of Sisenand also represented the triumph of the nobility over the common people, although the greatest beneficiary was the clergy, who took advantage of the weariness of the other contenders to enhance their own influence.
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