Theodemir (Visigoth)
Theodemir or Theudimer
Sometime probably during the joint reign of
E. A. Thompson states, "We know nothing whatever of the context of this strange event."[6]
After the defeat of king
emir Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa.[8] "The text of the treaty he signed has been preserved in at least three separate sources, including a fourteenth-century biographical dictionary, and is dated to 5 April 713 (4 Recheb 94 AH)."[4] The treaty allowed that Christians who submitted to Muslim rule ("the patronage of God") would be spared their lives and allowed to continue living with their families according to their mores and practising their Catholic faith in their churches, but they were required to pay a tribute per capita and to turn over any enemies of the conquerors to the government.[4] The tribute consisted of one dinar, four measures (or jugfuls) each of wheat, barley, grape juice, and vinegar, plus two of honey and oil; and half this for slaves.[4] Theudimer retained his land and his local authority.[4][9]
Theudimer later travelled to
Umayyad Caliph.[10] However, it is unknown how long this treaty lasted in practice, whether it continued until Theudimer's death (which is recorded in the Chronicle of 754) or after, or was cut short before his death.[11] His prominence in the region is testified by the number of later Gothic nobles in the same region who tried to claim descent from him.[11] The region itself was given the commemorative name Tudmir by the Arabs.[11] Theudimer left a son, Athanagild, who was described as very wealthy by the Chronicle, but whether or not he was his successor is debated by scholars.[11] If he did succeed, he would have done so around 740, but his fate is unknown and the region of Tudmir had lost its independence by the 780s.[12]
In fiction
In the
Notes
- Arabic: Tudmĩr or Tadmir.
- S2CID 162718809.
- ^ "Pacto de Tudmir" Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b c d e Collins, The Arab Conquest of Spain, 39–41.
- ^ Collins, Visigothic Spain, 109.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-814271-4.
- JSTOR 1853939.
- ^ Thompson, 250.
- ^ Collins, Visigothic Spain, 143.
- ^ Collins, The Arab Conquest of Spain, 105.
- ^ a b c d Collins, The Arab Conquest of Spain, 191.
- ^ Collins, in Gerli, Medieval Iberia, 128.
- ^ Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII, p. 276, Francisco Navarro Villoslada, 1973, Editorial La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca.
References
- ISBN 0-631-15923-1.
- Collins, Roger (2003). E. Michael Gerli (ed.). Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. London: Routledge.
- ISBN 0-631-18185-7.
- König, Daniel G. 2020. “713: The Treaty of Tudmir As a Testimony to the Muslim Subjection of the Iberian Peninsula”. Transmediterranean History 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.18148/tmh/2020.2.1.24.
External links
- Charles Morris, "The Stratagem Of Theodomir", Historical Tales: Spanish, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898.