The Reconquest of Galicia was the recovery of Galicia in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula to Christian rule, by King Alfonso I of Asturias, son-in-law and second successor of Pelagius.
King Alfonso I of Asturias, 19th century painting at the Museo del Prado.
The Visigothic Kingdom, Visigothic Spain or Kingdom of the Goths was a barbarian kingdom that occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th century. One of
Theodoric I by Fabrizio Castello (1560–1617)
Clovis I fights the Visigoths
Visigothic pseudo-imperial gold tremissis in the name of Emperor Justinian I, 6th century: the Christian cross on the breast defines the Visigothic attribution. (British Museum)