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Roderic and also
Ruderic ( also spelled Roderic, Roderik, Roderich, or Roderick ; Spanish and Portuguese: Rodrigo, ; died 711 or 712 ) was the Visigothic King of Hispania for a brief period between 710 and 712.
The senate with which Roderic accomplished his coup was probably composed of the " leading aristocrats and perhaps also some of the bishops.
His family believed itself to be descended from the Irish republican rebel Arthur O ' Connor, and also counted the prominent Tasmanian pioneer Roderic O ' Connor among their relations.
Roderic O ' Conor set out from Connaught, and went to Flaherty O ' Muldory in Tirconnell, and afterwards passed into Tyrone, to request forces from the north of Ireland, to enable him to recover his kingdom of Connaught ; but the Ultonians not consenting to aid in procuring lands for him from the Connacians, he repaired to the English of Meath, and these having also refused to go with him, he passed into Munster, whither the Sil-Murray sent for him, and gave him lands, viz.
A note is that Don Rodrigo is also the Spanish name for Roderic, the last Visigothic king of Spain.

Roderic and who
Many years previously, she had been betrothed to " a god-like youth " who turned out to be Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, one of the bad baronets of Ruddigore.
Alexei ( Roderic Noble ) is a very lively little boy who is constantly prevented from leading a normal life.
This Oppa may have had a part to play in the opposition to Roderic, but certainly not his nephews, who would have been too young to participate in power politics in 711.
Among the legends which have accrued to the history of the battle, the most prominent is that of Count Julian, who, in revenge for the rape of ( or affair with ) his daughter Florinda ( the later Cava Rumía or Doña Cava ) by Roderic while the youth was being raised at the palace school, supposedly lent Ṭāriq the necessary ships for launching an invasion.
One of Musa's sons, Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa, married an Iberian woman, who was either the daughter or wife of Roderic.
Current continuity has it that he was shot by a criminal named Matilda Roderic, who was presumably a reincarnation of the evil priest Hath-Set, who is apparently destined to kill Khufu in every life.
They were first discussed in modern times by Roderic O ' Flaherty ( 1685 ), who took them at face value.
Some scholars believe that the king Achila, who ruled in opposition to Roderic, was in fact Wittiza's son and successor and that Roderic had tried to usurp the throne from him.
According to the Chronicle of 754, Roderic immediately upon securing his throne gathered a force to oppose the Arabs and Berbers ( Mauri ) who were raiding in the south of the Iberian peninsula and had destroyed many towns under Tariq ibn Ziyad and other Muslim generals.
The chronicler of 754 claims that some of the nobles who had accompanied Roderic on his last expedition did so out of " ambition for the kingdom ", perhaps intending to allow him to die in battle so that they could secure the throne for one of themselves.
Roderic left a widow, Egilo, who later married one of the Arabic governors of Hispania.
António Galvão ( 1563 ) reports that a 1447 Portuguese ship stumbled on the island, and met its ( Portuguese-speaking ) inhabitants, who reported they had fled there in the " time of Roderic " and asked whether the Moors still dominated Hispania.
Roderic Jean Brind ' Amour ( born August 9, 1970 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the St. Louis Blues, Philadelphia Flyers and Carolina Hurricanes.
* 1203. Murtough the Teffian, son of Conor Moinmoy, who was the son of Roderic O ' Conor, was slain by Dermot, the son of Roderic, and Hugh, the son of Roderic, namely, by his own two paternal uncles, on the green of Kilmacduagh.
Aedh was killed in 1079 by Ruaidrí na Saide Buide ( Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, anglicised Roderic O ' Connor, died 1118 ), who in turn was blinded by Flaithbertaigh Ua Flaithbertaigh ( Flaherty O ' Flaherty ), King of Iar Connacht, in 1092.
The son of Theodofred was Roderic, duke of Baetica, who escaped to Italy.
His other two sons, who joined Musa bin Nusair and Tariq ibn Ziyad against Roderic, were Don Oppas, Archbishop or Bishop of Seville, maybe a bastard son, and Sisebuto, who later became the Comes of the Christians of Coimbra, as were his son Ataulfo, his grandson Atanarico and his great-grandson Teudo in 770, 801 / 802 and 805.
After the defeat of king Roderic at the Battle of Guadalete, according to the Chronicle of 754, the Arabs under Tariq ibn Ziyad marched as far as Toledo, but Oppa, who was staying there, fled the city before they took it.
He was a familiar of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja, who later became Pope Alexander VI.

Roderic and time
* The dialogue scene before " There grew a little flower " ( No. 25 ) was considerably shortened ; the first version exploring the topsy-turvy idea that if Sir Roderic and Dame Hannah were married, her husband would be a ghost, and she would therefore be a wife and a widow at the same time ( this concept was recycled in The Grand Duke ).
At the time of the Muslim invasion in 711, the Visigothic king Roderic was fighting the Basques in Pamplona and had to turn his attention to the new enemy coming from the south.
Archaeological evidence and two surviving lists of kings show that one Achila II ruled in the northeast of the kingdom at this time, but his relationship to Roderic is unknown.
The above circumstances have caused the name " Roderic " and its various variants to remain in use up to the present, unlike many other Germanic names of the time which had faded into obscurity.

Roderic and before
It is possible that Roderic was probably the dux ( duke ) of Baetica before coming to the throne.
Roderic made several expeditions against the invaders before he was deserted by his troops and killed in battle in 712.
Perhaps Oppa had been declared king at Toledo by Roderic and Achila's rivals, either before Roderic's final defeat or between his death and the Arab capture of Toledo.
It was the name of Roderic, the last Visigothic King before the Muslim conquest, and the subject of many legends.
It is possible that an ecclesiastic named Oppa was declared king at Toledo by rivals of both Roderic and Achila, either before Roderic's defeat and death at the Battle of the Guadalete or between his death and the Arab capture of Toledo.
Perhaps Oppa had been elected, declared, or even consecrated king at Toledo by rivals of both Roderic and his opponent Achila II, either before Roderic's final defeat or between his death and the Arab capture of Toledo.

Roderic and had
A cavalry wing that had secretly pledged to rebel against Roderic stood aside, giving the enemy an opening.
This unclear passage could indicate that Roderic had killed his rivals and weakened his army, ensuring defeat, or that his rivals too died in the battle or its retreat.
Muslim and Christian sources quote that while Musa bin Nusayr was eager to cross the strait across the sea to Hispania, he was only encouraged to do so when a Visigoth nobleman, Julian of Ceuta, had come to Musa encouraging him to invade Iberia, telling him of the people's sufferings and the injustice of their king, Roderic, while giving him cause for opened by telling him of the riches that would be found, and the many palaces, gardens and beauties of Hispania.
It is said that Julian wished the fall of the Visigothic kingdom because his daughter had been raped by Roderic.
It had been held by the Liberal MP, Roderic Bowen, until his defeat by Labour's Elystan Morgan in 1966.
AVM Roderic Carr ( 4 Grp ) was opposed to its creation but had identified Bennett ( 10 Sqn was in 4 Grp ) as the sort of person suitable for the job and passed over a squadron of Halifax heavy bombers. AVm Coryton had been a greater opponent but supplied a squadron of the new Avro Lancasters.
One pretender to the throne of Toledo, perhaps Achila or more accurately Oppa that escaped to Ceuta ( Morocco ), had the local count Uluoin asking the troops of the Maghreb to help him conquer his rival Roderic.
In memory of the miracle he had a chapel ( Capela da Memória ) built over the small grotto, where the miraculous statue had been left by king Roderic after the monk's death.
There are more coins surviving from Achila's kingdom than Roderic's, but the findings do not overlap in territory and it is suspected that the kingdom had been divided between two factions, with the southwest ( the provinces of Lusitania and western Carthaginiensis around the capital Toledo ) following ( or being subjected to ) Roderic and the northeast ( Tarraconensis and Narbonensis ) fallilng under the rule of Achila.
It has even been suggested by some scholars that Achila was in fact Wittiza's son and successor and that Roderic had tried to usurp the throne from him, even that he had been a co-ruler with Wittiza since 708.
Therefore, when the kingdom met sudden ruin in the first year of his successor Roderic ( a favorite of the Church ), this was readily explained by alleging that the sins of Wittiza " had drawn down the wrath of Heaven upon the unhappy nation.

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