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In 511, Amalaric, who was still a child, became king of the Visigoths, with the Ostrogothic king Theoderic acting as his senior king or his regent. Almost all modern researchers claim that this situation did not change until Theoderic’s death in 526. However, this means dismissing as incorrect the information transmitted by the acta of the Second Council of Toledo of 527: the bishops date the Council to the fifth year of Amalaric’s reign, which would place his accession in 522/3. In this paper, I reconsider the chronology of Amalaric’s reign before Theoderic’s death. For this purpose, I revisit the relevant source material and the textual problems surrounding the Second Council of Toledo. I argue that Amalaric must have been promoted in some way in 522/3 and look at the contemporary political situation in Italy to make a tentative reconstruction of the events.
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Amalaric Theoderic the Great Succession Second Council of Toledo Visigoths
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Marques dos Santos, Bruno. "The Regnal Years of Amalaric: revisiting the sources" in La Latinidad Medieval. Estudios Hispánicos 2022, eds. E. Pérez Rodríguez, et A. Alonso Guardo, 539-58. Firenze: SISMEL, 2023.
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SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo