Liuvigild

Liuvigild
Imaginary portrait by Juan de Barroeta (1854)
King of Hispania
Reign567 – 21 April 586
PredecessorLiuva I
SuccessorReccared I
Co-kingLiuva I (567–572)
Bornc. 519 AD[citation needed]
Hispania
Died21 April 586
Toledo, Hispania
SpouseTheodosia
Goiswintha
IssueReccared I
Saint Hermenegild
Names
Flavius Leovigildus
ReligionArianism

Liuvigild, Leuvigild, Leovigild, or Leovigildo (Spanish and Portuguese), (c. 519 – 586) was a Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania from 567 to 586. Known for his Codex Revisus or Code of Leovigild, a law allowing equal rights between the Visigothic and Hispano-Roman population, his kingdom covered modern Portugal and most of modern Spain down to Toledo. Liuvigild ranks among the greatest Visigothic kings of the Arian period.[1]