Gunderic, Archbishop Of Toledo
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Gunderic ( la, Gundericus; died before 711) was the
Archbishop of Toledo This is a list of Bishops and Archbishops of Toledo ( la, Archidioecesis Metropolitae Toletana).
briefly between
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and
Sindered Sindered became Archbishop of Toledo in Visigothic Hispania around the year 710 or 711, succeeding Gunderic. But at least one later chronicler makes him archbishop during the reign of Wittiza (694–710), during which he supposedly took part in ...
from about 701. He was a
Visigoth The Visigoths (; la, Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were an early Germanic people who, along with the Ostrogoths, constituted the two major political entities of the Goths within the Roman Empire in late antiquity, or what is kn ...
and is highly praised in the ''
Chronicle of 754 The ''Chronicle of 754'' (also called the ''Mozarabic Chronicle'' or ''Continuatio Hispana'') is a Latin-language history in 95 sections, written by an anonymous Mozarab (Christian) chronicler in Al-Andalus. The ''Chronicle'' contains the earlie ...
'', according to which he was a holy man who performed many miracles. Though certainly a man of learning, none of his writings are preserved. He presided over the
Eighteenth Council of Toledo The Eighteenth Council of Toledo was the last of the councils of Toledo held in Visigothic Spain before the Moorish conquest of 711. It was held after the Seventeenth Council in 694, probably in 703 during the reign of King Wittiza (701–710 ...
(probably 703), which may have been encouraged by king Wittiza to force marriage on the priesthood.


Sources

*Collins, Roger. ''Visigothic Spain, 409–711''. Blackwell Publishing, 2004. *Thompson, E. A. ''The Goths in Spain''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
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