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182:: "the Queen lost her temper completely" and "seized the girl by her hair and threw her to the ground: then she kicked her until she was covered with blood, had her stripped naked and ordered her to be thrown into the baptismal pool". Whether because of this fracas, or, more likely, because of Leovigild's desire to assure the succession of his sons (consistent with his previous actions to associate his sons with himself as rulers of the kingdom), he sent Hermenegild and Ingund to Seville to rule a portion of his kingdom - presumably the province of 282: 276: 178:. As Queen, it fell to Goiswintha to welcome the young bride to court, and reportedly Goiswintha was at first very kind to the young princess. However, she was determined that Ingund should be re-baptized in the Arian faith. Ingund, still only twelve, firmly refused. According to 205:
became king. He promptly converted to Catholicism. In the later part of 588 a conspiracy against him was headed by queen dowager Goiswintha together with the Arian bishop Uldila, but they were detected, and the bishop was banished.
350: 155:. Shortly thereafter Liuvigild became king of the Visigoths, and Goiswintha became Queen consort once more, and stepmother to her husband's sons 326: 355: 166:
Goiswintha was an influential personality in the royal court. In 579, her stepson Hermenegild married her granddaughter
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Following Liuvigild's death in 586, his younger son
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Queen consort of the Visigoths
Athanagild
Liuvigild
Issue
Brunhilda of Austrasia
Galswintha, Queen of Neustria
Visigothic
queen consort
Hispania
Septimania
Athanagild
Liuvigild
Brunhilda
Galswintha
Merovingian
Sigebert I
Austrasia
Chilperic
Neustrian
Athanagild
Liuvigild
Liuva I
Hermenegild
Reccared I
Ingund
Brunhilda
Sigebert I
Gregory of Tours
Baetica
Lusitania

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