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Tulga | |
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King of the Visigoths | |
King of Hispania | |
Reign | 20 December 639 – 17 April 642 |
Predecessor | Chintila |
Successor | Chindasuinth |
Died | After 642 |
Father | Chintila |
Religion | Chalcedonian Christianity |
Tulga or Tulca (living 642) was
Visigothic
King of
Hispania,
Septimania and
Galicia from 639, if his father died in December 639, as some sources state, to 642. Other sources have his rule beginning as early as 639 or ending as early as 641. He succeeded his father
Chintila in an ultimately vain attempt to establish dynastic kingship.
In 642, Chindasuinth, a Gothic warlord, who may have been as old as 79, commenced a rebellion. He had command of the frontier with the Basques. He saw the crown's weakness, and a convention of nobles (landholding Goths) and other Gothic inhabitants at Pampalica (probably modern Pampliega) proclaimed him king without the support of the church.
According to Sigebert of Gembloux, the rebel deposed Tulga in Toledo and tonsured him, sending him to live out his days in a monastery, since monks were ineligible for the elective throne. However, Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo says that the rebellion failed without the church's support and Chindasuinth succeeded only on the death of Tulga. Modern historians consider it impossible to discern the truth.
Editor Scriptorium, 1995 ISBN 84-605-2545-7, ISBN 978-84-605-2545-5
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Tulga | |
---|---|
King of the Visigoths | |
King of Hispania | |
Reign | 20 December 639 – 17 April 642 |
Predecessor | Chintila |
Successor | Chindasuinth |
Died | After 642 |
Father | Chintila |
Religion | Chalcedonian Christianity |
Tulga or Tulca (living 642) was
Visigothic
King of
Hispania,
Septimania and
Galicia from 639, if his father died in December 639, as some sources state, to 642. Other sources have his rule beginning as early as 639 or ending as early as 641. He succeeded his father
Chintila in an ultimately vain attempt to establish dynastic kingship.
In 642, Chindasuinth, a Gothic warlord, who may have been as old as 79, commenced a rebellion. He had command of the frontier with the Basques. He saw the crown's weakness, and a convention of nobles (landholding Goths) and other Gothic inhabitants at Pampalica (probably modern Pampliega) proclaimed him king without the support of the church.
According to Sigebert of Gembloux, the rebel deposed Tulga in Toledo and tonsured him, sending him to live out his days in a monastery, since monks were ineligible for the elective throne. However, Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo says that the rebellion failed without the church's support and Chindasuinth succeeded only on the death of Tulga. Modern historians consider it impossible to discern the truth.
Editor Scriptorium, 1995 ISBN 84-605-2545-7, ISBN 978-84-605-2545-5