Un asunto de chantajela familia de Atanagildo entre Metz, Toledo y Constantinopla
ISSN: 1130-0728
Year of publication: 1999
Issue: 11
Pages: 261-279
Type: Article
More publications in: Polis: revista de ideas y formas políticas de la Antigüedad
Abstract
The political relations between Austrasia and the Visigothic kingdom had resulted in the marriage of one of the Austrasian king's nieces, Ingundis, and the Visigothic king's son, Hermenegild. When the latter rebelled and the Empire withdrew its support for him as the Visigothic pretender to the throne, Gregory of Tours and P. Diaconus reported that his wife Ingundis, the Franco-Visigothic princess, and son Athanagild were being held by the Imperial authorities, who had no intention of «freeing» them. Athanagild's presence in Constantinople -since Ingundis dies- must be analyzed in order to understand the Empire's intended objetive.