Malaric or Amalaric was the last man to claim the kingship of the
Suevi of
Galicia. In 585, after the last king,
Audeca, was defeated and captured by the
Visigoths
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 ...
, Malaric, who claimed to be related to king
Miro, rose in rebellion. According to
John of Biclar
John of Biclaro, Biclar, or Biclarum (''c.'' 540 – after 621), also ''Iohannes Biclarensis'', was a Visigoth chronicler. He was born in Lusitania, in the city of ''Scallabis'' (modern Santarém in Portugal). He was also bishop of Girona.
Ea ...
, he was "defeated by
King Leovigild's generals and was captured and presented in chains to Leovigild."
Sources
*Arias, Jorge C
"Identity and Interactions: The Suevi and the Hispano-Romans."University of Virginia: Spring 2007.
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6th-century Suebian kings