Hermeric, plundering them with continual devastation, at last, oppressed by illness, made peace with them, and set his son Rechila in his place in the kingdom, who, sent with a great part of the army, laid low Andevotus, general of the Roman soldiery, with many troops, at the river Singilis of the province of Baetica, war being begun, great supplies of his gold and silver being seized. Thence he enters Emerita, which he had besieged, and, having obtained it, associates it to his own kingdom. But Hermeric his father, afflicted for seven years by a lingering illness, died. In the era 479, Hermeric being dead, Rechila his son reigns.
Eight years; who, after his father's death, having obtained Hispalis, brings the provinces of Baetica and Carthage under his power, and thence at Emerita ended his life in the worship, as they say, of paganism. In the era 486, Rechiarius, son of Rechila, having become a Catholic, succeeds to the kingdom for nine years, having taken in marriage the daughter of Theoderid, king of the Goths. At the beginning of his reign he began by plundering the Vasconias; soon, having set out to his father-in-law Theoderid, returning through the region of Caesaraugusta, he lays it waste with the Goths assisting. He invades the province of Tarraco, which was serving the Roman empire. He gives over to plunder the Carthaginian regions, which Rechila his father had restored to the Romans.
At last, when Theoderic, king of the Goths, entered Spain, battle being begun against him, he is first put to flight, then captured and killed. In the era 495, Rechiarius being extinguished, the Suevi who had remained in the farthest part of Gallaecia set up for themselves as king Maldras, son of Massila. Soon divided in two, one part call Frantan, another Maldras king. Without delay, Frantan being dead, the Suevi who were with him follow Rechimund, and, peace having been made with Maldras, they together plunder the parts of Lusitania. But Maldras, in the third year of his reign, is butchered by his own men. In the era 498, Maldras being slain, a dissension arises between Frumar and Remismund over the power of the kingdom;
but Frumar, with the band of Suevi which he had, overthrew with grievous destruction the assembly of the city of Flavia. But Remismund lays waste the maritime regions of the neighbouring assemblies of the Aurenses and of Lucus. In the era 502, Frumar being dead, Remismund, all the Suevi being recalled into his dominion by royal right, restores peace with the Gallaecians, sends envoys of a treaty to Theoderic, king of the Goths, from whom also, through envoys, he received both arms and a wife whom he might have. Thence he crosses to Lusitania. He plunders Conimbria, deceived under peace. Olisipo too is occupied by him, its citizen Lusidius, who was set over it, betraying it.
In his time Ajax, a Galatian by nation, become an Arian apostate, emerges among the Suevi, by the help of his king, as an enemy of the Catholic faith and of the divine Trinity, bringing this pestilent poison from the Gallican region of the Goths, and infecting the whole nation of the Suevi with the blemish of deadly perfidy. Then, with many kings of the Suevi remaining in the Arian heresy, at last Theodemir received the power of the kingdom. He immediately, the error of Arian impiety being destroyed, restored the Suevi to the Catholic faith, with Martin, bishop of the monastery of Dumium, renowned for faith and knowledge, striving thereto; by whose zeal both the peace of the Church was enlarged, and many things were established in ecclesiastical disciplines in the regions of Gallaecia.
After Theodemir, Miro is made prince of the Suevi, reigning thirteen years. He waged war a second time in his reign against the Ruccones. Then he goes to Hispalis in aid of Leovigild, king of the Goths, to subdue his rebellious son, and there closed the term of his life. To him his son Eboric succeeds in the kingdom, whom, while yet a youth, Audeca, having assumed tyranny, deprives of the kingdom, and, having made him a monk, condemns him in a monastery; for whom the sentence was not long deferred. For Leovigild, king of the Goths, soon making war on the Suevi, having obtained that same kingdom, cast down Audeca, and, having shorn him, consigned him, after the honour of the kingdom, to the office of the presbyterate. For so it was fitting that what he himself had done to his own king, he should in turn suffer by a fitting recompense.