List of Visigothic kings

Title(s):
  • List of Visigothic kings
  • Chronica regum Wisegothorum
    (Chronica regum Wisegothorum, Chronicle of Visigoth kings)
  • Laterculus regum Visigothorum
Period covered:
369-672 or 687
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
  • List (rulers)
Remarks:
All the manuscripts of the List begin with the reign of Athanaric (except for the Vaticanus); there is less certainty about the end point. Every codex concludes its version with a different king (Huete Fudio 1994: 8, n.6). The original list was thus extended by various copyists. There are two main hypotheses about the first redaction of the List. Flórez (1754: 169-182) suggests that the original list was redacted during the reign of Erwig (680-687) and ended with his name. This first version was supposedly amplified on the occasion of the coronations of Egica (687) and Wittiza (700). A different interpretation is proposed by Mommsen (1898: 461): since a majority of manuscripts links the List to the Liber iudicum of Recceswinth, it was probably written during his reign (653-672), as he is the last king mentioned in the original list, and the list represented a historical introduction to the Liber iudicum of Recceswinth, as the latercula of consuls and emperors used to do for Roman law books.
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Bibliography:
  • R. Ballester Y Castell (1908) Las fuentes narrativas de la historia de España durante la Edad Media (417-1474). Palma de Mallorca.
  • M.C. Diaz y Diaz (1959) Index scriptorum Latinorum Medii Aevi Hispanorum. Salamanca-Madrid.
  • E. Flórez (1754) Cronología de la historia antigua de estos reinos aplicada a concilios y reyes (España Sagrada: Teatro geográfico-histórico de la Iglesia de España, 2). Second edition. Madrid.
  • L.A. García Moreno (1974) 'Sobre un nuevo ejemplar del Laterculus regum Visigothorum'. Analecta sacra Tarraconensia 47: 8-10.
  • M. Huete Fudio (1994) 'Fuentes menores para el estudio de la historiografía latina de la alta Edad Media Hispánica (Siglos VII-X)'. Medievalismo 4: 5-26.
  • B. Sánchez Alonso (1947) Historia de la historiografía española. Volume One: Hasta la publicación de la Crónica de Ocampo (…-1543). Madrid.