Hermenegild II "The Holy" Of VISIGOTH

555 - 585  (30 years)

• Name	Hermenegild II "The Holy" Of VISIGOTH
  Nickname	The Holy
  Birth	555
  Gender	Male
  Name	The Holy
  _UID	53AA3187708E4E0FA1C1823ECEE5CAC97871
  Death	585	Tarragona, Spain
  Person ID	I187	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Family	Ingonde De FRANCS,   b. 559   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	579
  Children	1. Arthanagild II The VISIGOTH,   b. 583   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F125	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  AFT 0579. ·renounced his arian faith for Catholicism||This conversion would be the cause of revolt and his eventual death. birth ABT 0555. † death 13 Apr 0585, in Tarragona, Spain. ·Beheaded by his father, Leovigild, for betraying him. His betrayal was to marry an zealous orthodox catholic, Ingund, and convert from arianism. Hermenegild rebelled with the help of Byzantium. Leovigild bribed Byzantium to betray his son and Hermenegild was thus captured and killed. "Most contemporary writers suggested that Hermenegild was executed as a rebel, but Pope Gregory I, in his Dialogues, stated that he was killed for refusing to receive communion from an Arian bishop." event 1585.·was canonized||His Feast Day is 13 April. "His cult was subsequently authorized for Spain by Pope Sixtus V and for the whole church by Urban VIII."