Sindered became

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Visigothic 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 k ...

Hispania Hispania ( la, Hispānia , ; nearly identically pronounced in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Italian) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces. Under the Roman Republic, Hispania was divided into two provinces: His ...

around the year 710 or 711, succeeding

Gunderic Gunderic ( la, Gundericus; 379–428), King of Hasding Vandals (407-418), then King of Vandals and Alans (418–428), led the Hasding Vandals, a Germanic tribe originally residing near the Oder River, to take part in the barbarian invasions of th ...

. But at least one later chronicler makes him archbishop during the reign of

Wittiza Wittiza (''Witiza'', ''Witica'', ''Witicha'', ''Vitiza'', or ''Witiges''; 687 – probably 710) was the Visigothic King of Hispania from 694 until his death, co-ruling with his father, Egica, until 702 or 703. Joint rule Early in his reign, Er ...

(694–710), during which he supposedly took part in Wittiza's challenge to church authority during the last nine years of his reign. Sindered is said to have obeyed the king's orders "by continually harassing and persecuting men of high standing amongst the clergy" in the kingdom, though reliably recorded is only that, according to the '' Chronicle of 754'', either he or Gunderic instituted some sort of pressure.Collins, ''Visigothic Spain''.

Sources

*Bradley, Henry. ''The Goths: from the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain''. 2nd ed. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. (See chapter 34, pp. 355–357, in the Kessinger Publishing reprint, .) * Collins, Roger
"'Sicut lex Gothorum continet': Law and Charters in Ninth- and Tenth-Century León and Catalonia."
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The English Historical Review ''The English Historical Review'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1886 and published by Oxford University Press (formerly Longman). It publishes articles on all aspects of history – British, European, and ...

'', 100 (1985), 396, pp. 489–512. * Collins, Roger. ''Visigothic Spain, 409–711''. Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

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