Hermenegildvs Rex: Prince, Usurper, and Martyr

Contents

Evocation of St Hermenegild: a Silenced History, a Pending Claim

Lights and Shadows around Hermenegild’s Rebellion

Hermenegild and the Ordinatio Principis in Visigothic Spain

Conclusions: Hermenegild, King David and the Sacralisation of Gothic Royalty

Annex 1. On the Location of the Monastery of Biclaro

Annex 2. An image of St Hermenegild from the Visigothic Period? Two Rectifications and a New Reading of a Relief from the Lapidary Museum of Narbonne (or To Err is Human)

Bibliography

About the Author

Rafael Barroso Cabrera holds a master’s degree in Prehistory and Archaeology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He specialises in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo, to which he has dedicated much of his research and numerous publications. Within this framework, the author has participated in various research projects, with noteworthy contributions to the study of Visigothic art and collaborations in the research projects Sedes Regia Toletana.

Jorge Morín de Pablos holds a PhD in Archaeology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and is director of the Department of Cultural Heritage Resources of AUDEMA (Madrid). He has directed numerous archaeological excavations at various sites in Spain and abroad, with a particular focus on Late Antique sites in central Spain. His notable contributions to the archaeological knowledge of Toledo and its surroundings are highlighted through the Sedes Regia Toletana project of the Real Fundación Toledo. He is currently the director of the excavations at the archaeological site of Los Hitos (Arisgotas, Toledo).

Isabel Sánchez Ramos is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville. Her main scientific interests are phenomena related to urban societies undergoing transformation between the Roman period and the Early Middle Ages in the Western Mediterranean, the spaces and architectures of power linked to elites, and their impact on the evolution of urban landscapes. Likewise, the royal seat of Toledo and the palatine architectures linked to Hispanic aristocracies are also among her main lines of research. Between 2012 and 2019, she was director and principal investigator of the IDAVE (Idanha-a-Velha) Project.