Editing Suebi (section)

===Establishment===
[[File:Espada sueva - Conimbriga.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Suebic sword. Conimbriga, Portugal]]
The [[Visigoths]] were sent in 416 by the emperor Honorius to fight the Germanic invaders in Hispania, but they were re-settled in 417 by the Romans  as ''foederati'' in Aquitania after completely defeating the [[Alans]] and the [[Silingi]] Vandals. The absence of competition permitted first, the [[Asdingi]] Vandals, and later, the Suebi, to expand south and east. After the departure of the Vandals for Africa in 429 Roman authority in the peninsula was reasserted for 10 years except in northwest where the Suevi were confined. In its heyday Suebic Gallaecia extended as far south as [[Mérida, Spain|Mérida]] and [[Seville]], capitals of the Roman provinces of [[Lusitania]] and [[Betica]], while their expeditions reached [[Zaragoza]] and [[Lleida]] after taking the Roman capital, Mérida, in 439. The previous year 438 [[Hermeric]] ratified the peace with the [[Gallaeci]], the local and partially romanized rural population, and, weary of fighting, abdicated in favour of his son [[Requila|Rechila]], who proved to be a notable general, defeating first Andevotus, ''Romanae militiae dux'',<ref>Isidorus Hispalensis, ''[[Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum]]'', 85</ref> and later [[Vitus (magister militum)|Vitus ''magister utriusque militiae'']]. In 448, [[Rechila]] died, leaving the crown to his son [[Rechiar]] who had converted to Roman Catholicism c. 447. Soon, he married a daughter of the Gothic king [[Theodoric I]], and began a wave of attacks on the [[Hispania Tarraconensis|Tarraconense]], still a Roman province. By 456 the campaigns of [[Rechiar]] clashed with the interests of the Visigoths, and a large army of Roman federates (Visigoths under the command of [[Theodoric II]], [[Burgundians]] directed by kings [[Gundioc]] and [[Chilperic I of Burgundy|Chilperic]]) crossed the [[Pyrenees]] into Hispania, and defeated the Suebi near modern-day [[Astorga, Spain|Astorga]]. Rechiar was executed after being captured by his brother-in-law, the Visigothic king Theodoric II. In 459, the Roman emperor [[Majorian]] defeated the Suebi, briefly restoring Roman rule in northern [[Hispania]]. Nevertheless, the Suebi became free of Roman control forever after Majorian was assassinated two years later. The Suebic kingdom was confined in the northwest in Gallaecia and northern Lusitania where political division and civil war arose among several pretenders to the royal throne. After years of turmoil, [[Remismund]] was recognized as the sole king of the Suebi, bringing forth a politic of friendship with the Visigoths, and favoring the conversion of his people to [[Arianism]].