Theodemir (Suebian king)

Theodemar (right) with the bishops Lucretius, Andrew and Martin. From the Codex Vigilanus, Escorial Library.

Theodemir or Theodemar (also Teodomiro,

Suevic kings of Galicia and one of the first Chalcedonian Christians to hold the title. He succeeded Ariamir

sometime between the end of May 561 and the year 566 and ruled until his death.

Theodemir has been posited as the first Orthodox Christian monarch of the Suevi since the death of

brought it about, and the minutes of First Braga that Ariamir was the first to lift the ban on orthodox Catholic synods.

Most scholars have attempted to meld these stories. It has been alleged that Theodemir must have been a successor of Ariamir's, since Ariamir was the first Suevic monarch to lift the ban on Catholic synods; Isidore therefore gets the chronology wrong.

relics of Saint Martin and that Theodemir was converted later through the preaching of Martin of Dumio.^[5] Felix Dahn equated Chararic with Theodemir, even saying that the latter was the name he took upon baptism.^[5] It has also been suggested that Theodemir and Ariamir were the same person and the son of Chararic.^[5] Ferreiro believes the conversion of the Suevi was progressive and stepwise and that Thoedemir was responsible for beginning a persecution of the Arians in his kingdom to root out their heresy.^[6]

In 569 Theodemir called the

Leovigild

.

Notes

^ In Galician, Portuguese and Spanish.
^ Ferreiro, 198 n8.
^ Thompson, 87.
^ Ferreiro, 199.
^ ^a ^b ^c Thompson, 86.
^ Ferreiro, 207.
^ Ferreiro, 199 n11.

Sources

Ferreiro, Alberto. "Braga and Tours: Some Observations on Gregory's De virtutibus sancti Martini." Journal of Early Christian Studies. 3 (1995), p. 195–210.
Thompson, E. A. "The Conversion of the Spanish Suevi to Catholicism." Visigothic Spain: New Approaches. ed.
ISBN 0-19-822543-1
.

Preceded by Ariamir	King of Galicia 561–570	Succeeded by Miro

[1] In Galician, Portuguese and Spanish.

[2] Ferreiro, 198 n8.

[3] Thompson, 87.

[4] Ferreiro, 199.

[Thompson86-5] Thompson, 86.

[6] Ferreiro, 207.

[7] Ferreiro, 199 n11.

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[6]

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