Suintila

Suinthila was from March 621 to 26 March 631 king of the Visigoths.

Suinthila proved under King Sisebut as a military leader. When, after the death Sisebuts ( February 621 ) whose son and successor also Reccared II died after a reign of only a few days, Suinthila was raised to the king. Suinthila drove the Byzantines to 625 from their last Spanish stronghold in Cartagena and brought the entire Iberian peninsula under the rule of the Visigoths. Ceuta and the Balearic Islands, however, remained Byzantine.

631 was formed an aristocratic conspiracy against Suinthila, who had obviously made ​​himself unpopular by an anti-aristocratic politics. The rebels turned to the Frankish king Dagobert I., who sent an army to support them. Before it came to battle, Suinthila was by his followers at Saragossa - including his brother Geila - leave. He was forced to abdicate, and the leader of the rebels, Sisenand, was elected as the new king. The convened by Sisenand 4th Council of Toledo ( 633 ) justified the change of ruler with alleged wrongdoings Suinthilas.

For the claim that Suinthila was a son Sisebuts, there is no evidence. Suinthila had an apparently youthful son named Ricimer ( Riccimirus ), which he got co-regent; on the coins Suinthilas Ricimers name does not appear.

A golden crown Suinthilas consecration was found in Guarrazar ( province of Toledo ).