Las tumbas de los reyes visigodos: un problema histórico.

It is a strange fact that we know nothing about the tombs of the Visigothic kings in Hispania during their presence in the Peninsula for more than two centuries. No contemporary chronicler or historian mentions them and there is no archaeological evidence for any pantheon, royal tomb or sarcophagus. An explanation for this could lie in the peculiar nature of the Visigothic monarchy which was nonhereditary and, because of its submission to the iron rule of the Church, was also obliged to practice and publically express its humilitas in its forms of burial. There was no royal pantheon because it was not a monarchy that was tied to the people.