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Visigothic King

Tulga
King of the Visigoths
Imaginary portrait of Tulga by Agustín Sáez Glanadell. Oil on canvas, 1854.
King of Hispania
Reign	20 December 639 – 17 April 642
Predecessor	Chintila
Successor	Chindasuinth

Died	After 642
Father	Chintila
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

El Libro de La Genealogía de Los Reyes de España
Alonso de Cartagena, Bonifacio Palacios Martín, Biblioteca Nacional (Spain), Faustino Menéndez Pidal de Navascués. Contribuidores Bonifacio Palacios Martín, Biblioteca Nacional

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