The History Of Spain Podcast

This is episode 13 called Good bye, Roman Empire! and in this episode you will learn: SHOW NOTES - Who were Ricimer and Majorian, leaders of the coup d'état against Emperor Avitus - The situation of Hispania, especially in Gallaecia that was divided between two factions of Suebi - The very delicate situation of the Western Roman Empire when Emperor Majorian took power in 457 - The impressive achievements and conquests of Majorian, against the Vandals, Visigoths, Burgundians and Suebi - What went wrong in 460 that ended the dream of the restoration of the Western Roman Empire - How the Visigoths under Theodoric II and Euric conquered much of Hispania - How the Kingdom of the Suebi was restored under King Remismund, as a vassal state of the Visigoths, and why we don't have information about the Suebi for the next 80 years - The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and the peak of Visigothic power - The consolidation of the Visigothic state with the promulgation of the Code of Euric and Breviary of Alaric a