page_title: Kingdom of the Suebi
section_title: Last kings
hierarchical_section_title: Kingdom of the Suebi / 6th century and annexation / Last kings
caption_attribution_description: Galego: Dominios da monarquia sueva, e extensión do reino de Galicia no século V. Français&#160;: Domaines de la monarchie suève, et extension du royaume de Galice au Vème siècle
context_page_description: The Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallæcia or Suebi Kingdom of Gallæcia, was a Germanic post-Roman kingdom that was one of the first to separate from the Roman Empire. Based in the former Roman provinces of Gallaecia and northern Lusitania, the de facto kingdom was established by the Suebi about 409, and during the 6th century it became a formally declared kingdom identifying with Gallaecia. It maintained its independence until 585, when it was annexed by the Visigoths, and was turned into the sixth province of the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania.
context_section_description: On the death of Miro, his son Eburic was made king, but apparently not before sending tokens of appreciation and friendship to Leovigild. Not a year later his brother-in-law, named Audeca, accompanied by the army, seized power. He took Eburic into a monastery forced him to ordain as a priest, thereby making him ineligible for the throne. Then Audeca married Siseguntia, king Miro's widow, and made himself king. This usurpation and the friendship granted by Eboric gave Leovigild the opportunity to seize the neighboring kingdom. In 585 Leovigild went to war against the Sueves, invading Gallecia. In the words of John of Biclaro: "King Leovigild devastates Gallaecia and deprives Audeca of the totality of the Kingdom; the nation of the Sueves, their treasure and fatherland are conduced to his own power and turned into a province of the Goths." During the campaign, the Franks of king Guntram attacked Septimania, maybe trying to help the Sueves, at the same time sending ships to Gallaecia which were intercepted by Leovigild's troops, who took their cargo and killed or enslaved most of their crews. Thus was the kingdom transferred to the Goths as one of their three administrative regions: Gallaecia, Hispania and Gallia Narbonensis. Audeca, captured, was tonsured and forced to take holy orders, then sent into exile in Beja, in Southern Lusitania.
  This same year, 585, a man named Malaric rebelled against the Goths and reclaimed the throne, but he was finally defeated and captured by the generals of Leovigild, who took him in chains to the Visigothic king.
caption: The Suebic Kingdom of Gallaecia, 6th century
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