* 589 – Reccared I summons the Third Council of Toledo.

In or around 589, the Visigoths, under Reccared I, converted from Arianism to the Nicene faith, gradually adopting the culture of their Hispano-Roman subjects.

The Visigothic monarchy took on a completely elective character with the fall of the Balti, but the monarchy remained Arian until Reccared I converted in 587 ( Hermenegild had also converted earlier ).

* Reccared I ( 580 – 601 ), son, sub-king in Narbonensis until 586, first Catholic king

Pope Gregory I was convinced that Reccared refused bribes from the Jewish community, which was large, well-connected throughout the Mediterranean and powerful, and Reccared's laws provided that the offspring of a Christian and a Jew be baptised, which was of little moment to the Jewish community, as whether it was not born of a Jewish mother or was born of a Jewish woman outside her community, the child was not considered a Jew anyway.

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The body of leading temporal and ecclesiastical lords had been the dominant body in determining the Visigothic succession since the reign of Reccared I.

Conversion of Reccared I, Visigothic Kingdom | Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia

Another son, Reccared I, converted to Catholicism in 587 and officially abjured Arianism during the Council of Toledo of 589, bringing with him the queen, the court, and some formerly-Arian Visigothic bishops.

In that same year, King Reccared I of the Visigoths sent embassies to both Childebert and Guntram, the former accepting them and consolidating an alliance and the latter refusing to see them for some reason or another.

He married firstly to an unknown wife, by whom he had a daughter Theodora, born circa 590, who married Suintila, and secondly to his son in law's illegitimate sister, bastard daughter of Reccared I by Floresinda, by whom he had a son Reccared II.

In 586, Leuvigild's other son Reccared I acceded to the throne and with Spali itself went on to enjoy a time of great prosperity.

After the death of Leuvigild in 586, Leander had a prominent role in the Third Council of Toledo in 589, where the new king Reccared I, Hermenegild's brother, converted to Catholicism along with all the Visigothic nobility.

Eulogius's writings documenting stories of the Córdoba martyrs of 851 – 59, encouraged by him to defy Muslim authorities with blasphemies and embrace martyrdom, contrast these Christians with the earlier official Christianity of the Visigoths, by Reccared, the previous bishop of Córdoba, who counseled tolerance and mutual forbearance with the Muslim authorities.

Saint Leander of Seville () ( Cartagena, c. 534 – Seville, March 13, 600 or 601 ), brother of the encyclopedist St. Isidore of Seville, was the Catholic Bishop of Seville who was instrumental in effecting the conversion to Catholicism of the Visigothic kings Hermengild and Reccared of Hispania ( the Iberian Peninsula, comprising both modern Spain and Portugal ).

After the disorders of the passage of the Vandals and Alans down the Mediterranean coast of Hispania from 408, the history of Medieval Spain begins with the Iberian kingdom of the Arianist Visigoths ( 507 – 711 ), who were converted to Catholicism with their king Reccared in 587.

Liuva II, youthful son of Reccared, was Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia from 601 to 603.

Guntram ignored two pleas for a peace in 586 and Reccared undertook the only Visigothic invasion of Francia in response.

The Frankish attack of 585 was repulsed by Hermenegild's brother Reccared, who was ruling Narbonensis as a sub-king.

When Rigunth was sent off to her Visigothic fiancé in Spain Reccared, son of Liuvigild, her entourage was so laden with rich gifts that the Frankish nobles objected, that the royal fisc had been depleted.

Reccared was the younger son of King Liuvigild by his first wife Theodosia.

Reccared died a natural death at Toledo and was succeeded by his youthful son Liuva II.

Hermenegild was the son of King Leovigild and brother to Reccared.

The Council was organized by Bishop Leander of Seville, who had worked tirelessly to convert the Arian Visigothic kings and had succeeded with Reccared.

Then, the public confession of King Reccared was read aloud by a notary.

In 587, Reccared, the Visigothic king at Toledo, was converted to Catholicism and launched a movement to unify doctrine.

Its bishopric was founded in 306, and the ancient church of San Maximo occupies the traditional site of a cathedral founded by the Visigoth king Reccared in about 600 A. D .; the cathedral was converted into a mosque under Islamic rule ( 713-1489 ).

Leovigild was married twice: first to Theodosia, who bore him two sons Hermenegild and Reccared, and after her death to Athanagild's widow Goiswintha.

He was succeeded by his second son Reccared, who converted to Orthodox Christianity in 589 and brought religious and political unity between the Visigoths and their subjects.

In 587, the Visigothic king at Toledo, Reccared, converted to Catholicism and launched a movement in Spain to unify the various religious doctrines that existed in the land.

Visigothic persecution of Jews began after the conversion to Catholicism of the Visigothic king Reccared.

* Reccared II, Visigothic King of Hispania

In January 587, Reccared renounced Arianism for Catholicism, the single great event of his reign and the turning point for Visigothic Hispania.

When the Catholic bishops of Visigothic Iberia succeeded in converting King Reccared and his nobles to Trinitarian Christianity they built the cathedral of Cordova in honour of Vincent.

A possible fifth Visigothic foundation is Baiyara ( perhaps modern Montoro ), mentioned as founded by Reccared in the 15th-century geographical account, Kitab al-Rawd al-Mitar.

This status under the Visigoths came to a sudden end after the Visigothic king Reccared embraced Catholicism and his successors attempted to convert their subjects.

Liuvigild further secured a peaceful succession, a perennial Visigothic issue, by associating his two sons, Hermenegild and Reccared, with himself in the kingly office and placing certain regions under their regencies.

* A younger brother, Saint Fulgentius of Cartagena, served as the Bishop of Astigi at the start of the new reign of the Catholic King Reccared.

In 589, King Reccared converted his people to Catholicism.

* Liuva II succeeds his brother Reccared as King of the Visigoths.

* Reccared, King of the Visigoths

* The Third Council of Toledo, called by King Reccared of the Visigoths, renounces Arianism and embraces Catholicism.

The later conversion of King Reccared to Catholicism has been attributed to his brother's ( Hermenegild's ) intercession.

Prior to the Council in Toledo, King Reccared had convened informal assemblies of bishops to resolve the religious schism in his kingdom.

However, King Reccared and Bishop Leander were only able to persuade eight Arian bishops to attend the council.

The " third " synod of 589 marked the epoch-making conversion of King Reccared from Arianism to orthodox Catholicism.