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Iudila Was a noble
"Iudila and Suniefredo, Visigoth kings"
(numismatic study) * http://www.fuenterrebollo.com/faqs-numismatica/iudila.html * Castillo Lozano (2019): "The historical image of Iudila through its monetary issues: king or usurper?", Revista Numisática Hécate, 6, pp. 122-130.In: http://revista-hecate.org/files/6415/7728/9848/Castillo-Lozano.pdf Visigoths Visigothic Kingdom Usurpers
Iudila Was a noble 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 kno ...
who proclaimed himself king between the years 631
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? and 633
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Known only by two tremís with the inscription «'' Iudila Rex ''», minted in Augusta Emerita
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), so its power must have been reduced to south of the kingdom.
On December 5
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*63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.
* 633 – Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville.
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of 633
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, Iudila was excommunicated and deprived of his properties ( IV Council of Toledo).
He must have starred in one of the various rebellions that occurred after the dethronement of Suintila. In opposition to and contemporaneously with the beginning of the reign of Sisenando. His affiliation is unknown, although it could be related to Suintila. The lists of Visigoth kings do not usually collect or number it, giving as king from 631
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Year 631 ( DCXXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 631 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar er ...
to Sisenando.
According to Caroline Humphrey, he was of Jewish origin. His birthname was Judah, ''Yehudah'' (יהודה), but he was called ''Judila'' ("Little Judah") by the Goths.''Classical folia : studies in the Christian perpetuation of the classics'', Institute for Early Christian Iberian Studies, College of the Holy Cross, 1977, .
References
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* Pío Beltrán (1941)"Iudila and Suniefredo, Visigoth kings"
(numismatic study) * http://www.fuenterrebollo.com/faqs-numismatica/iudila.html * Castillo Lozano (2019): "The historical image of Iudila through its monetary issues: king or usurper?", Revista Numisática Hécate, 6, pp. 122-130.In: http://revista-hecate.org/files/6415/7728/9848/Castillo-Lozano.pdf Visigoths Visigothic Kingdom Usurpers