![]() In 579, he married Ingund, the daughter of the Frankish King Sigebert I of Austrasia who was a Catholic. The Baptism of Saint Hermenegild, attributed to Guercino, 17th century He was a brother of Reccared I and brought up an Arian. Hermenegild was the eldest son of Liuvigild and his first wife. His death was later celebrated as a martyrdom due to the influence of Pope Gregory I's Dialogues, in which he portrayed Hermenegild as a "Catholic martyr rebelling against the tyranny of an Arian father." Marriage to Ingund Hermenegild was defeated in 584 and exiled. During his rebellion, he converted from Arianism to Catholicism. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year. Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild (died 13 April 585 Spanish: San Hermenegildo Latin: Hermenegildus, from Gothic *Airmana-gild, "immense tribute"), was the son of king Liuvigild of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. Accessed December 25, 2012.El Triunfo de San Hermenegildo by Francisco Herrera the Younger (1654)
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