The Visigoths tended to maintain more of the old Roman institutions, and they had a unique respect for legal codes that resulted in continuous frameworks and historical records for most of the period between 415, when Visigothic rule in Spain began, and 711, when it is traditionally said to end.

The period of rule by the Visigothic Kingdom saw the spread of Arianism briefly in Spain.

The loose council of nobles that advised Spain's Visigothic kings and legitimized their rule was responsible for raising the army, and only upon its consent was the king able to summon soldiers.

The impact of Visigothic rule was not widely felt on society at large, and certainly not compared to the vast bureaucracy of the Roman Empire ; they tended to rule as barbarians of a mild sort, uninterested in the events of the nation and economy, working for personal benefit, and little literature remains to us from the period.

They did not, until the period of Muslim rule, merge with the Spanish population, preferring to remain separate, and indeed the Visigothic language left only the faintest mark on the modern languages of Iberia.

The center of Visigothic rule shifted first to Barcelona, then inland and south to Toledo.

With the creation of Al-Andalus, most of the Iberian peninsula is conquered by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost eight centuries of Muslim presence there.

With the rest of Hispania, it was part of the Roman Empire, then came under Visigothic rule after Rome's collapse.

It applied, not to the Visigothic nobles under their own law, which had been formulated by Euric, but to the Hispano-Roman and Gallo-Roman population, living under Visigoth rule south of the Loire and, in Book 16, to the members of the Trinitarian Catholic Church.

The defeat of the Visigothic army followed on the flight of the king's opponents, who had only accompanied the host " in rivalry ", " deceitfully ", and " out of ambition to rule " says the Mozarabic chronicler.

Halm took as his points of departure ancient reports that Germanic tribes in general were reported to have distributed conquered lands by having members draw lots, and that Iberia during the period of Visigothic rule was sometimes known to outsiders by a Latin name, Gothica Sors, whose meaning is ' Gothic lot '.

Records during the proto-Germanic Suebic Kingdom and Visigothic rule are rare, but tend to presuppose an advancement of rural agrarian and pastoral communities during their occupation.

Toulouse became part of Aquitaine — cut from Narbonne and the Mediterranean region where Visigothic rule remained — a diminished capital city within the scarcely integrated Frankish kingdom.

The Third Council of Toledo ( 589 ) marks the entry of Catholic Christianity into the rule of Visigothic Spain, and the introduction into Western Christianity of the filioque clause.

Three other chronicles cover parts of the Visigothic rule of Hispania: the bishop Hydatius, bishop Isidore of Seville, both of the doctrinally unified Catholic Visigothic establishment, and the fragmentary but apparently secular Chronicle of Zaragoza.

In an attempt to deal with them, the succeeding emperor granted them rule of the Aquitaine region, in modern day France, where they founded the Visigothic kingdom.

However, archaeological excavations have uncovered an extensive Roman city in La Mancha which has been identified as Segobriga .. During the Visigothic rule in Iberia, it became a diocese seat.

Theodoric took over the rule of the Visigothic kingdom for the next 15 years, collecting its taxes and appointing its officials, ostensibly in the name of Gesalic's half-brother, Amalaric, until he was old enough to rule.

* 410, Sack of Rome by Visigoths, Begin of attacks on Vandals by Visigoths, Visigothic King Alaric I dies from disease, Begin of Barbarian raids by Picts, Scoti and Irish Celts, End of Roman rule in Britain, Fall of Roman Britain, < strong > Suevi establish a Kingdom in Galicia </ strong >.

The last vestige of Roman rule was effaced by the Franks at the Battle of Soissons ( 486 ); displacing the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse in 507, the Franks brought most of Gaul, except Septimania in the south, under the rule of the Merovingians, the first kings of France.

Barbarian invasions brought most of the Iberian Peninsula under Visigothic rule by the early fifth century.

Despite the diplomatic intervention of Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths and father-in-law of Alaric, Clovis led his followers into Visigothic territory.

A Visigothic force led by Alaric I sacked Rome in 410.

In 711 an Islamic Berber and Arab raiding party, led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad, was sent to Iberia to intervene in a civil war in the Visigothic Kingdom.

* April 30 – Umayyad troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar, and begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula and conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom ( See Moors, Al-Andalus, and Umayyad conquest of Hispania ).

In 711-18, Tariq ibn-Ziyad led forces across the Strait of Gibraltar to conquer the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania.

The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains ( or Fields ), also called the Battle of Châlons or the Battle of Maurica, took place in AD 451 between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their allies commanded by their leader Attila.

According to the legend, in c. 714, during the Muslim conquest of Hispania, seven Christian bishops of Visigothic Hispania, led by the Bishop of Porto, embarked with their parishioners on ships and set sail westward into the Atlantic Ocean to escape the Arab conquerors.

The proscriptions against Jews were soon followed by required conversions, which led to a wholesale flight of Jews from Visigothic Spain to Ceuta and technically Visigothic nearby territories in North Africa.

* Invasion of Hispania by the Germanic Visigoths led by King Theodorid, expanding from Aquitaine and under request by the Romans, in 410, establishing the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania.

As bishop, Caesarius lived in a political world whose main theme was competition for Southern Gaul control among the Visigothic, Ostrogothic and Frankish which led him to the constant ransoming of victims during these wars.

* 451, Invasion of Gaul by the Huns with Frankish, Gothic and Burgundian mercenaries led by Attila the Hun, Sack of Trier, Attack on Metz, Siege of Orléans, Coalition of Romans, Franks and Visigoths led by General Aëtius stop the Huns in the Battle of Châlons, Visigothic King Theodoric I dies in battle.

By 711 an Arab raiding party led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, and defeated the Visigothic king Roderic at the Battle of Guadalete.

For 19 years ( 653 – 672 ) Recceswinth governed his people with such success that the Visigothic Kingdom enjoyed unbroken peace — except for a brief rebellion of the Vascons, led by a Gothic noble named Froya.

Tarif ibn Malik () was a Berber commander under Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Berber Muslim and Umayyad general who led the conquest of Visigothic Hispania in 711.

These links to the Visigothic royalty and the influence of Egilon led to the misconception and rumors that ‘ Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ibn Nusayr had converted to Christianity.

Shortly after these events, Emperor Theodosius I, perhaps realizing the situation between East and West was becoming problematic at the least, began to prepare his foederati, including Germanic troops, those from the Visigothic treaty in 382 CE led by Alaric, as well as a contingency of Alans and Huns, for war against Arbogast and Eugenius in 394.

The Visigothic ruling class looked to Constantinople for style and technology while the rivals of Visigothic power and culture were the Catholic bishops – and a brief incursion of Byzantine power in Córdoba.

After a brief period of Visigothic ruling, the area was taken by Islamic armies and became a part of Al Andalus.

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.

Incredibly, they even enjoyed a brief revival during the Germanic invasions of late 4th century AD, until being later overrun and absorbed by the Visigothic Kingdom in the early 6th century AD.