Claim: Reccared I destroyed the Visigoths.
Evidence: In 711 or 712 , a force of invading African Moors defeated the Visigoths in the Battle of Guadalete.
Reccared I -LRB- or Recared ; Reccaredus Gothic : RekkareÞ ; Recaredo 559 -- 31 May 601 AD ; reigned 586 -- 601 -RRB- was Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania.
Their king and many members of their governing elite were killed , and their kingdom rapidly collapsed.
The Battle of Guadalete was fought in 711 or 712 at an unidentified location between the Christian Visigoths of Hispania under their king , Roderic , and an invading force of the Muslim Berbers and Arabs under the Berber commander Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad.