HIST-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Suebi, Arianism, Acculturation
9 Oct 2020
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The visigoths, who had been forced to withdraw from italy shortly after they sacked rome in. 410, settled in southern france in 418 and established their capital at toulouse. The advance of the vandals into north africa, however, made visigothic migration into spain possible, while the southward expansion of the franks under clovis (especially after his defeat of the visigoths at vouille in 507) made it necessary. Certain inroads had already been achieved by that time, though. The visigoths had defeated the suevi in 456 and driven them into the furthest northwest reaches of the spanish peninsula, and had followed up that victory by extending their own control southward to the strait of gibraltar by 584. Despite these victories, however, the visigoths" kingdom remained weak. Relations between the visigoths and the hispano-romans were strained, of course. The visigoths were nominally arian christians, while the hispano-romans were for the most part catholic.
