Charles Morris
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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And within the city he built a noble palace and other buildings, all of which time has swept away.
But over the great gate of Toledo the inscription still remains erexit phore deo rex inclitus urbum wamba.
To God and King Wamba, the city owes its walls.
Alas, the end was what might be expected of such goodness in so evil an age.
A traitor arose among those who he most favoured, and
There was a youth named Ervigio, in whose veins ran the blood of former kings, and whom Wamba so loved and honored as to raise him to great authority in the kingdom.
Ervigio was one of those who must be king or slave.
Ambition made him forget all favours, and he determined to cast his royal benefactor from the throne.
But he was not base enough to murder the good old man to whom he owed his greatness.
It was enough if he could make him incapable of reigning, as Wamba had done with Paul.
To accomplish this he gave the king a sleeping potion, and while he was under its influence he had him tonsured, that is, had the crown of his head shaved.
He then proclaimed that this had been done at the wish of the king, who was weary of the throne.
But whether or not the law was strict, no matter how or why it was done, no man who received the tonsure could ever again sit upon the Gothic throne.
Fortunately for Evio, Wamba cared no more for the crown now than he had done at first, and when he came back to his senses he made little question of the base trick of his favourite, but cheerfully enough became a monk.
The remaining seven years of his life he passed happily in withdrawal from a world into which he had been forced against his will.
But the people loved him, the good old man, and were not willing to accept the scheming Ervigio as their king, unless he could prove his right to the throne.
So, in the year six hundred eighty one he called together a council of lords and bishops at Toledo, before whom he appeared with a great show of humility, bringing testimony to prove that Wamba had become monk at his own wish, when in peril of death.
To this he added a document signed by Wamba in which he abdicated the throne, and another in which he recommended Ervijo as his successor.
For eight days the council considered the question.
The documents might be false, but Wamba was a monk, and Hervihio was in power, so they chose him as king.
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