Reccared II
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{{Short description|Visigothic King}}
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|name = Reccared II
|title = King of Hispania, Septimania and Gallaecia
|image = File:Recaredo II, rey de los Visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg
|caption = Imaginary portrait of Reccared II by Francisco Aznar. Oil on canvas (1858)
|succession = King of the Visigoths
|reign = {{circa}} February 621 – c. March 621
|predecessor = Sisebut
|successor = Suintila
|birth_date =
|death_date = {{circa}} March 621
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|religion = Chalcedonian Christianity
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Reccared II (in Spanish, Galician and Portuguese, Recaredo), (? – March 621) was Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia briefly in 621,{{Cite journal|last=Martyn|first=John R.C.|date=2008|title=Sisebut's life of Saint Desiderius|url=https://go-gale-com.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA192258314&v=2.1&u=usyd&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w|journal=Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association|volume=6|issue=3|pages=17–24}} though the length of the reign exactly is debated to last from several days to just over a year.{{Citation|chapter=The Catholic Kingdom, 586–672|date=2004-01-01|title=Visigothic Spain 409–711|pages=64–91|editor-last=Collins|editor-first=Roger|publisher=Blackwell Publishing Ltd|language=en|doi=10.1002/9780470754610.ch4|isbn=978-0-470-75461-0}}
Biography
His father and predecessor was Sisebut.{{Cite journal|last=Luis A. GarcÍa Moreno|date=2008|title=Prosopography, Nomenclature, and Royal Succession in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo|journal=Journal of Late Antiquity|volume=1|issue=1|pages=142–156|doi=10.1353/jla.0.0002|s2cid=201793522 |issn=1942-1273}} He was but a child when placed on the throne and as with most Visigothic attempts to establish a royal dynasty, Sisebut's was opposed by the nobility and ultimately failed.
His death allowed his general, the strongman Suintila, to accede to the throne.
References
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Sources
- Collins, Roger (2004). Visigothic Spain, 409–711. Blackwell Publishing.
- Thompson, Edward Arthur (1969). The Goths in Spain. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Category:7th-century Visigothic monarchs
Category:Monarchs who died as children
Category:Medieval child monarchs
Category:Year of birth unknown
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