Julian of Toledo and the Education of Kings in Late Seventh-Century Spain

Abstract

On the first of September in the year 672 the Visigothic king Reccesuinth died at the royal villa of Gerticos, which was located at a distance of some one hundred and twenty (Roman) miles to the north-west of the royal capital, the urbs regia of Toledo. 1 By Visigothic standards at least, his reign of nearly twenty four years was a long one, and in terms of its legislative activity amongst the most significant of any of the kings in western Europe in the seventh century. But apart from the legal legacy of the first version, as far at least as is currently extant, of the Forum Iudicum and the few details concerning his date and place of death, little else has survived relating to the life and reign of this, one of the most important of the Visigothic kings of Spain. 2 Far less is known of the majority of the other Visigothic kings, and even their chronology has to be deduced on the basis of a limited number of fixed points, of which the date of death of Reccesuinth is one. 3

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