Goswintha

Goswintha , also Godiswintha , Goswinthe , Goïswinthe , Gonsuinthe (* around 530, † 589 ) was a Visigoth queen. Successively she was the wife of the kings of Visigothic Spain Athanagild and Leovigild . With Athanagild she had two daughters, Brunichild and Gailswintha , who later married into the Merovingian family.

Brunichild's daughter Ingund from her marriage to Sigibert I of Austrasia was married to Hermenegild, the older of the two sons of the Visigoth king Leovigild. This resulted in a religious conflict, because Ingund converted to Catholicism after their marriage , whereas the Visigoth royal family clung to Arianism , although a large part of the population in the Visigoth Empire was Catholic. Goswintha, Hermenegild's stepmother and at the same time Ingund's maternal grandmother, pushed for Ingund's return to Arianism. When Ingund refused, Leovigild settled the dispute by deporting Hermenegild and Ingunde to Seville as administrators of a southern part of the empire .

literature

• Herwig Wolfram :  Leovigild. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016950-9 , pp. 269-273.
• Helmut Castritius :  Hermenegild. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 14, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016423-X , pp. 423-425.
• Felix Dahn : Godiswintha In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 49 (1904), pp. 430-431.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herwig Wolfram :  Leovigild. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016950-9 , p. 269.
2. ↑ Helmut Castritius :  Hermenegild. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 14, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016423-X , p. 423.