Roderic

<p>Roderic  was the <a href="/facts/Visigoths/1GffbA8F">Visigothic</a> king in <a href="/facts/Hispania/EYd2cv27">Hispania</a> between 710 and 711. He is well known as "the last king of the Goths". He is actually an extremely obscure figure about whom little can be said with certainty. He was the last Goth to rule from <a href="/facts/Toledo,_Spain/uJx9PuV3">Toledo</a>, but not the last Gothic king, a distinction which belongs to <a href="/facts/Ardo/5FB339hj">Ardo</a>.
</p><p>Roderic's election as king was disputed and he ruled only a part of Hispania with an opponent, <a href="/facts/Achila_II/Lbv17sQB">Achila</a>, ruling the rest. He faced a rebellion of the <a href="/facts/Basques/leFXJxBH">Basques</a> and the <a href="/facts/Umayyad_conquest_of_Hispania/8IwWDKTo">Umayyad invasion</a>. He was defeated and killed at the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Guadalete/NEdh0ok9">Battle of Guadalete</a>. His widow <a href="/facts/Egilona/6TTXQ0sH">Egilona</a> is believed to have married <a href="/facts/Abd_al-Aziz_ibn_Musa/J3uP6BUx">Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa</a>, the first Muslim governor of Hispania.
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