Stelle Ruderico regnante Gothis in Spania ...; (Chronica Prophetica (883 - 900), Chroniques Asturiennes (fin ix° siécle), 1987 (Bonnaz, ed.), Cap. 5 (pp. 6-7)) [4713]

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Text Chronica Prophetica (883 - 900) Anonymous - History
Quotation Ruderico regnante Gothis in Spania anno regni sui tertio ingressi sunt Sarraceni in Spania die III idus nouembris, era DCCLII. Regnante in Africa Ulid, amir al muminin, filio de Abdelmelic, anno Arabum centesimo [p. 7], era et anno quo supra, ingressus est Abuzura, sub Muza duce in Africa commanente et Maurorum patrias defaecante. Alio anno ingressus est Taric. Tertio anno proelio iam eodem Taric agente cum Ruderico, ingressus est Muza iben Nuzeir, et preiit regnum Gothorum. De rege quidem Ruderico, nulli causa interitus eius cognita manet usque in hodiernum diem. Arabes, tamen, regionem simul cum regno possessam, omnis decor gothicae gentis pauore uel ferro periit. [...] Vrbs quoque Toletana cunctarumque gentium uictrix, Ismaeliticis triumphis uicta subcubuit, eisque subiecta deseruit. Sicque peccatis congruentibus Spania ruit, anno Gothorum CCCLXXXX.
Translation In the third year of the reign of Roderic over the Goths of Spain on the third day of the Ides of November in the year 752 era [November 11, 714 CE] the Saracens entered Spain. Walid, the amir almuminin, son of Abd al-Malik, was ruling in Africa, in the hundredth year of the Arabs. The year in which Abu Zubra entered [Spain], his commander Muza remained in Africa and conquered the lands of the Moors. The next year, Tarik entered Spain. Three years after Tarik engaged in battle with Roderic, Musa ibn Nusayr invaded and destroyed the kingdom of the Goths. Concerning king Roderic, the cause of his death remains unknown up to the present day. The Arabs took control of the region along with the kingdom. All of the beauty of the Gothic people perished through both panic and the sword because they had not performed appropriate penance for their sins [...] The city of Toledo, victor of all peoples, succombed as a victim to the triumphant Ishmaelites, and deserved to be subjected to them. Thus Spain was ruined for its disgusting sins, in the 380th year of the Goths. (Baxter-Wolf, trans., “Chronica Prophetica”, 2008)
Summary Here the Chronica prophetica recounts the Arabic conquest of the Goths in Spain, from the the third year of the reign of king Roderic (714), to the conquest of Toledo in 731.
Quotation source Chroniques Asturiennes (fin ix° siécle), 1987 (Bonnaz, ed.), Cap. 5 (pp. 6-7)
Temporal Coverage 714 - 731
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