Charles Morris
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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There he was anointed and crowned, and from being lord of his fields, the wise old husbandman became king of Spain.
Such a king as Wamba proved to be, the Goths had never known.
Age had brought him wisdom, but it had not robbed him of energy.
He knew what he had to expect, and showed himself the master of the situation.
Revolts broke out, conspiracies threatened the throne, but one after another he put them down.
Yet he was as merciful as he was prompt.
His enemies were set free and bidden to behave themselves better in the future.
One ambitious noble named Paul, who thought it would be an easy thing to take the throne from an old man who had shown so plainly that he did not want it, rose in rebellion.
He soon learned his mistake.
Wamba met him in battle, routed his army, and took him prisoner.
Paul expected nothing less than to have his head stricken off, but Wamba simply ordered that it should be shaved.
To shave the crown of the head in those days was no trifling matter.
It formed what is known as the Tonsure, then the mark of the monastic orders.
A man condemned in the Tonsure could not serve as king or chieftain, but must spend the remainder of his days in seclusion as a monk.
So Paul was disposed of without losing his life.
Wamba, however, did not spend all his time in fighting with conspirators he was so just a king that all the historians praise him to the stars, though none of them tell us what just deeds he did.
He was one of those famous monarchs around whom legend loves to grow as the green leaves grew around his dry rod, and who became kings of fancy in the absence of facts.
About all we know is that he was good King Wamba, a just and merciful man under whom Spain reached its age of gold.
He made a great and beautiful city of Toledo his capital.
It had a wall, but he gave it another, stronger and loftier.
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