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Tulga
King of the Visigoths
Tulga, rey de los Visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg
Imaginary portrait of Tulga by Agustín Sáez Glanadell. Oil on canvas, 1854.
King of Hispania
Reign20 December 639 – 17 April 642
Predecessor Chintila
Successor Chindasuinth
DiedAfter 642
FatherChintila
Religion Chalcedonian Christianity

Tulga or Tulca (died in or af. 642) was Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia from 639, if his father died in December 639, as some sources state, to 642. Other sources have his rule beginning as early as 639 or ending as early as 641. He succeeded his father Chintila in an ultimately vain attempt to establish dynastic kingship.

Biography

In 642, Chindasuinth, a Gothic warlord, who may have been as old as 79, commenced a rebellion. He had command of the frontier with the Basques. He saw the crown's weakness, and a convention of nobles (landholding Goths) and other Gothic inhabitants at Pampalica (probably modern Pampliega) proclaimed him king without the support of the church.

According to Sigebert of Gembloux, the rebel deposed Tulga in Toledo and tonsured him, sending him to live out his days in a monastery, since monks were ineligible for the elective throne. However, Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo says that the rebellion failed without the church's support and Chindasuinth succeeded only on the death of Tulga. Modern historians consider it impossible to discern the truth.

Sources

Editor Scriptorium, 1995 ISBN   84-605-2545-7, ISBN   978-84-605-2545-5

Regnal titles
Preceded by King of the Visigoths
20 December 639 – 17 April 642
Succeeded by


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