586: Reccared became the Visigoth King of Hispania.  A year la | This day in jew history

586: Reccared became the Visigoth King of Hispania.  A year later, he converted from the traditional Goth Arianism to the Roman Empire's Catholicism.
During his reign, the council of Toledo III forbade jews from holding public office, from having intercourse with Christian women, and from performing circumcisions on slaves or Christians.
Reccared ignored Gregory's request that the trade in Christian slaves at Narbonne be forbidden to jews.
However, Gregory, writing to Reccared in August 599, extols him for embracing catholic (as opposed to Arian) doctrine and inducing his people to do so, and notably for refusing the bribes offered by jews to procure the repeal of a law against them. He sent Reccared a piece of the True Cross, some fragments of the chains of St. Peter, and some hairs of St. John the Baptist.