Suintila Visigothic King of Hispania
- Born: Abt 585, Spain
- Marriage (1): Theodora Princess of the Visigoths
- Died: 633 about age 48
Another name for Suintila was Swinthila King of the Visigoths.
Research Notes:
FamilySearch.org Compact Disc #94 Pin #105749 (submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer) has name as Swinthila, King of the Visigoths, b. abt 564, d. 633.
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593876475 has name as Suintilo, b. abt 585 in Spain, d. 631.
From Wikipedia - Suintila :
From 621 to 631 , Suintila (or Swinthila, Svinthila, d. 633) was Visigothic King of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula ) . There was a new peace in the Kingdom of the Visigoths. As a direct result, by 624 , the king was able to retake those lands that had been under the control of Byzantium .
On the linguistic front, it was around Suintila's time that a secondary form of the word Hispania was growing in usage: Spania , from which the modern name of Spain originated.[1] According to St. Isidore of Seville , who died in 636 , it was with the Visigothic domination of Hispania that the idea of a peninsular unity was sought, and the phrase mater Spania ("mother Hispania") was first spoken. Up to that date it had been the word Hispania that designated all of the peninsula's lands. In Historia Gothorum, Suintila appears as the first king of totius Spaniae. In De laude Spaniae ("About Hispania's Pride") the country is dealt with as a Gothic nation.
Suintila married Theodora Princess of the Visigoths, daughter of Sigebut King of the Visigoths and Unknown. (Theodora Princess of the Visigoths was born about 601 in Spain.)
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