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'''Ingunde''', '''Ingund''', '''Ingundis''' or '''Ingunda''' (born in 567/568), was the eldest child of [[Sigebert I]], king of Austrasia, and his wife [[Brunhilda of Austrasia|Brunhilda]], daughter of King [[Athanagild]] of the Visigoths. She married [[Hermenegild]] and became the first Catholic [[queen of the Visigoths]].

==Early life==
Ingund's father Sigebert became ruler of the Frankish kingdom of [[Austrasia]] in 561 on the death of his father [[Chlothar I]].

Following the tradition of the time, it would follow that Ingund was named after her father's mother. Her siblings included a sister, [[Chlodosinda (daughter of Sigebert I)|Chlodosind]] (born about 569) and a brother [[Childebert II|Childebert]] (born 570).

In 575, Sigebert was embroiled in a civil war with his half-brother, [[Chilperic I]], king of [[Neustria]]. On the verge of victory, Sigebert was assassinated. With the death of Sigebert, Brunhilda and the children were in great fear for their safety. Childebert, only five years old, faced almost certain death from Chilperic. Duke Gundovald immediately came to Paris, where Brunhilda and the children were living, took possession of Childebert and secured his safety among the Austrasian nobility. When Chilperic came to Paris, he seized Brunhilda and ordered Ingund and Chlodosind to be held in custody in the monastery of Meaux.<ref>Gregory of Tours V 1</ref> Ingund would have been only seven or eight during this traumatic time.

==Marriage of Hermenegild and Ingund==
[[Image:Visigotic mints.svg|thumb|right|Map showing Baetica and Lusitania]]
In 569 [[Liuvigild|Leovigild]] was elevated to co-rule the Visigoths in [[Hispania]] and [[Septimania]] with his brother [[Liuva I|Liuva]]. Soon afterwards, in order to legitimize his kingship, he married [[Goiswintha]], widow of the previous Visigothic King Athanagild and mother of Brunhilda. Leovigild had two sons, [[Hermenegild]] and [[Reccared I|Reccared]], from a previous marriage. About 578 Leovigild negotiated the marriage of his eldest son Hermenegild to Ingund, daughter of Brunhilda now [[regent]] for her son Childebert.

Ingund travelled from France to [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]] through Septimania, the part of Gaul still held by the Visigoths. Septimania stretches from the eastern end of the [[Pyrenees]], along the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], to the [[Rhone]]. As Ingund passed through the Visigothic town of [[Agde]] she met the local Catholic bishop, [[Phronimius]], who warned her not to accept the 'poison' of [[Arianism]].<ref>E.A. Thompson, 65</ref>

In 579 Prince Hermenegild married Ingund, he being an Arian and she a Catholic. At first Ingund was warmly received by Queen Goiswintha.<ref>Goiswintha was not only Ingund's stepmother-in-law but also her maternal grandmother. Ingund's mother Brunhild was the daughter of King [[Athanagild]] and Goiswintha. Athanagild died in 567.</ref> However, the queen was determined that Ingund should be re-baptized in the Arian faith. Ingund, still only twelve, firmly refused. According to [[Gregory of Tours]]: "the Queen lost her temper completely" and "seized the girl by her hair and threw her to the ground: then she kicked her until she was covered with blood, had her stripped naked and ordered her to be thrown into the baptismal pool".<ref>Gregory of Tours V 38</ref> Whether because of this fracas, or, more likely, because of Leovigild's desire to assure the succession of his sons (consistent with his previous actions to associate his sons with himself as rulers of the kingdom<ref>Thompson, 64</ref>), he sent Hermenegild and Ingund to Seville to rule a portion of his kingdom—presumably the province of [[Baetica]] and southern [[Lusitania]].

==Revolt of Hermenegild==
It was at Seville that Ingund came into contact with [[Leander of Seville|Leander]], a Catholic monk. Leander belonged to an elite and influential family of Hispano-Roman stock. His two brothers later became bishops and his sister an Abbess. The vast majority of the population of southern Spain was Hispano-Roman and Catholic. Also a significant segment of the Visigoth nobility were Catholic, not to mention that portion of the nobility whose roots were Hispano-Roman.<ref>E.A. Thompson, 67–8</ref> Leander either was already bishop of Seville when Hermenegild and Ingund arrived there, or became bishop soon afterwards. There can be no doubt of the influence the bishop held,<ref>With the demise of the Imperial power of Rome in the previous century, many of the civic duties once administered by civil dignitaries were now administered by the local priesthood (i.e. bishops).</ref> nor can there be any doubt that he saw in this Catholic princess an opportunity to advance the Catholic cause, for the history of this period contains numerous examples (real or mythical) of queens influencing their husband's religious conversion.

[[Image:Hispania sVI.jpg|thumb|right|Map showing Byzantine Spain c. 580]]
Hermenegild's Baetica bordered [[Spania]], the [[Byzantine]]-controlled cities of southeastern Spain. These cities were predominantly [[Western Christianity|Latin Christian]].

The sixth century experienced a flight of Catholic clergy to southern Spain, many from Africa, but other areas as well. Persecution and the [[Three-Chapter Controversy]] would account for much of the flight. Examples of the new arrivals are the African Nanctus, Donatus and the Greek named [[Paul (bishop of Mérida)|Paul]].<ref>Collins, 58</ref> So when Hermenegild and Ingund arrived in Seville, they would have been met by a strong and possibly active Catholic party.

In the winter of 579–80 Hermenegild proclaimed himself king at Seville and, yet, he continued to also refer to his father as 'King'. Whether or not Hermenegild held the Orthodox Christian belief in the Trinity at this time cannot be known, for it is not till 582 that he "officially" accepted the Catholic faith. However, from the beginning, he seems to have been supported by those who support the Catholic cause. For already in 580 Leander travelled to Constantinople to plead the rebels' cause and seek aid from the Byzantine Empire.

Sometime between 580 and 582 Hermenegild and Ingund had a son named Athanagild after his matrilineal great-grandfather king [[Athanagild]]. 

==Leovigild's Response==
Leander travelled to [[Constantinople]] to gain support from [[Tiberius II Constantine|Emperor Tiberius]] in 580, returning in 582. Hermenegild converted to Catholicism in 582—as Leander was absent in the years prior, it would follow that Ingund was a major influence for his conversion.<ref>Gregory V 38</ref>

Leovigild more or less ignored his son's transgression until 582 when he marched on [[Mérida, Spain|Mérida]] and captured the city. It is difficult to determine whether this was because of Hermenegild's new found Catholicism or a coincidence. Nevertheless, Leovigild saw in Arianism Visigothic identity and any threat to this identity as a threat to Visigoth legitimacy to rule. He viewed Catholicism as the 'Roman' religion and Arianism as the Visigoth religion.<ref>E.A. Thompson, 105</ref> Leovigild's response may have been primarily a reaction to Hermenegild and other Visigoth nobles who had, at one time or another, converted to Catholicism.<ref>E.A. Thompson, 106</ref>

By 584 the revolt had decidedly turned against Hermenegild and its outcome became all too clear. Ingund and with their young son Athanagild tried to seek refuge in [[Constantinople]] after Hermenegild's execution, but it was refused while they were already in [[Sicily]]. The Byzantines later refused to turn them over to Leovigild.<ref>Gregory of Tours VI 43</ref> On her way to Constantinople with her son Athanagild, Ingund died (584) in [[Carthage]], in Africa, and was buried there.<ref>Gregory of Tours VIII 28</ref> The cause of her early death is not recorded, but one of the world's greatest [[Plague of Justinian|plagues]] ravaged the Mediterranean at this time. Athanagild survived the journey to the Byzantine capital of Constantinople where he may have been brought up by [[Maurice (emperor)|Emperor Maurice]].

The Byzantines used their custody of Ingund and her son to induce Ingund's brother, King Childebert II, to attack the [[Lombards]] of northern Italy.<ref>Treadgold, 228; Gregory of Tours VIII 18</ref> Childebert, while only fourteen years of age at this time, would have also been much influenced by his strong-willed mother Brunhilda, who was also committed to securing Ingund and her grandson.<ref>Brunhilda in 584 wrote to Emperor Maurice asking him to send Athanagild to her in France</ref>

Leovigild besieged Seville for a year before he was able to capture the city in 584. The tenacity of the resistance is evidence of the support for this Catholic usurper. Convinced that resistance was now futile, Hermenegild surrendered to his father. Hermenegild was imprisoned at Tarragona and repeatedly urged to abjure Catholicism. He refused and was executed by Duke Sigisbert on 13 April 585.


==Aftermath==
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According to Gregory of Tours, Ingund's example deeply influenced her husband's acceptance of Catholicism and eventual conversion.((citation needed|date=February 2015)) Used as evidence((according to whom|date=February 2015)) that the conversion was not solely based on political expediency is the fact that when Hermenegild was forced to choose between denying his Catholic faith and execution, he chose to remain Catholic.((citation needed|date=February 2015)) The revolt of Hermenegild signalled the weakening influence of the Arian doctrine in Spain.((citation needed|date=February 2015))

Soon after the death of Hermenegild and Ingund, King Leovigild died and was succeeded by Reccared, Hermenegild's younger brother. By the second year of his reign, Reccared embraced Catholicism and began the task of unifying the Spanish people under a single religion. The spirit of Ingund and the example of Hermenegild is believed((according to whom|date=February 2015)) to have had an influence on Spanish society, and particularly on the new king Reccared.<ref>Gibbon, 318</ref> Reccared's lack of support for his father's actions against Hermenegild and the retribution he took on his brother's executioner is evidence of a bond between the two brothers. Pope Gregory's words further confirm Hermenegild's influence: "Reccared, following not his faithless father but his martyr brother, was converted from the perverseness of the Arian heresy."<ref>E.A. Thompson, 76</ref>

==Parentage==
According to the 9th-century ''[[Chronicle of Alfonso III]]'', [[Erwig]] was the son of Ardabast, who had journeyed from the [[Byzantine Empire]] to Hispania during the time of [[Chindasuinth]], and married Chindasuinth's niece Goda.<ref>Collins, ''Visigothic Spain'', 102.</ref> Ardabast (or Artavasdos), was probably an Armenian or Persian Christian exile in Constantinople or in [[Byzantine Africa]]. In Hispania he was made a count.<ref>Livermore, ''Twilight of the Goths'', 76.</ref> 

17th-century Spanish genealogist [[Luis Bartolomé de Salazar y Castro]] gave Ardabast's father as Athanagild, the son of Saint [[Hermenegild]] and Ingund, and his mother as Flavia Juliana, a daughter of [[Peter (curopalates)|Peter Augustus]] and niece of the Emperor [[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]].<ref>Luis de Salazar y Castro, ''Historia Genealógica de la Casa de Lara'' (Madrid, 1696) vol. I, [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_AffI0i1mO5wC#page/n64/mode/1up p. 45].</ref> This imperial connection is disputed by [[Christian Settipani]], who says that the only source for Athanagild's marriage to Flavia Julia is [[José Pellicer de Ossau y Tovar|José Pellicer]], who he claims to be a forger.<ref>Christian Settipani, ''Les ancêtres de Charlemagne'', p. 431.</ref>

==Sources==
* Collins, Roger ''Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400-1000'' Second Edition. New York: St. Martin's Press
* Thompson, E.A. ''The Goths in Spain''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969
* Treadgold, Warren T. ''A History of the Byzantine State and Society''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997
* [[Gibbon, Edward]], ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' Volume IV. London: The Folio Society
* Gregory of Tours, ''The History of the Franks'', England: Penguin Books Ltd. 1974

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