Sindered of Toledo

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Sindered of Toledo became Archbishop of Toledo in Visigothic Hispania around the year 710 or 711 CE, succeeding Gunderic. But at least one later chronicler makes him archbishop during the reign of Wittiza (694-710), during which he supposedly took part in Wittiza's challenge to church authority during the last nine years of his reign. Sindered is said to have obeyed the king's orders "by continually harassing and persecuting men of high standing amongst the clergy" in the kingdom,^[1] though all that's reliably recorded is that, according to the Chronicle of 754, either he or Gunderic instituted some sort of pressure.^[2]

[edit] Sources

• Bradley, Henry. The Goths: from the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain, chapter 34. Second edition, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. pp 355–357. ISBN 1417970847 (Kessinger Publishing reprint).

• Collins, Roger. Visigothic Spain, 409–711. Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

[edit] Notes

Preceded by Gunderic

Archbishop of Toledo 711–?

Succeeded by Sunirend