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Theodemund was a Suevic
King of Galicia Galicia is an autonomous community and historical nationality in modern-day northwestern Spain on the Iberian Peninsula, which was a major part of the Roman province known as Gallaecia prior to 409. It consists of the provinces of A Coruña, ...
between the years 469 and 550. This period is very obscure and little is known about the rulers in this time save that they were
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. The hypothesis of his existence is based on a twelfth-century document that mentions a ''Theodemundus'' ruling the Sueves between
Remismund Remismund (or Rimismund) (died 469) was the Suevic king of Galicia from c. 464 until his death. According to Isidore of Seville, Remismund was a son of Maldras. Remismund's early career was spent as an ambassador between Galicia and Gaul, which tr ...
and Theodomir. Because this mention occurs in a listing of seventh-century ecclesiastical divisions at the time of Wamba, Wilhelm Reinhart believes it was based on an earlier source.


Sources

*Arias, Jorge C
"Identity and Interactions: The Suevi and the Hispano-Romans."
University of Virginia: Spring 2007. {{Galician monarchs 6th-century Suebian kings 6th-century Arian Christians