Reccared II

Reccared II (in Spanish, Galician and Portuguese, Recaredo), (? – March 621) was Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia briefly in 621,[1] though the length o the reign exactly is debated to last from several days to just over a year.[2] His father and predecessor was Sisebut and his mother was Sisebut's second wife,[3] the bastard daughter of Reccared I by Floresinda. 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.

Imaginary portrait of Reccared II by Francisco Aznar. Oil on canvas (1858)

His death allowed his maternal half-uncle, the strongman and general Suintila, to accede to the throne.

Sources
  • Collins, Roger (2004). Visigothic Spain, 409–711. Blackwell Publishing.
  • Thompson, Edward Arthur (1969). The Goths in Spain. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Sisebut		 King of the Visigoths
February – March 621		 Succeeded by
Suintila

References
  1. Martyn, John R.C. (2008). "Sisebut's life of Saint Desiderius". Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association. 6 (3): 17–24.
  2. Collins, Roger, ed. (2004-01-01), Visigothic Spain 409–711, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp. 64–91, doi:10.1002/9780470754610.ch4, ISBN 978-0-470-75461-0 Missing or empty |title= (help); |chapter= ignored (help)
  3. Luis A. GarcÍa Moreno (2008). "Prosopography, Nomenclature, and Royal Succession in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo". Journal of Late Antiquity. 1 (1): 142–156. doi:10.1353/jla.0.0002. ISSN 1942-1273.


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