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Carney & Wehofer Family
Genealogy Pages
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555 - 585 (30 years)
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Name |
Hermenegild II "The Holy" Of VISIGOTH |
Nickname |
The Holy |
Born |
555 |
Gender |
Male |
Name |
The Holy |
_UID |
53AA3187708E4E0FA1C1823ECEE5CAC97871 |
Died |
585 |
Tarragona, Spain |
Person ID |
I187 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
Last Modified |
5 Feb 2012 |
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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."
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