Wamba is a king Visigoth of Hispanie which reigns of the year 672 at the year 680/681. Á the death of the king Recceswinth, it is elected king the September 21st 672 by part of the wisigothic nobility joined together in the area of Valladolid (with the “ Gertico (S) Valladolid ”), in spite of its already advanced age, whereas it does not wish to become king. Become king, to strengthen the royal authority on an increasingly rebellious nobility, he is the first king Visigoth to be made crown king by receiving oiling crowned by the archbishop of Tolède; he is thus the first barbarian king of origin “” in Occident to be made crown this kind (nearly one century later, Pépin the Brief will make in the same way to legitimate its capacity).

He fights against the rebellious nobility, as well arienne as catholic, and must repress the revolts Vasconnes; as of its advent, it must intervene in Septimanie to fight the Duc Paul, which proclaimed king, supported by local partisans and the mérovingien Childéric II, king of the Francs. In 673, after having begun again Tarragone, Barcelona and Narbonne, it is victorious of the rebellious duke whom it besieges in the arenas of Nimes (transformed into fortress by the Visigoths since the 5th century), forces it to capitulate and the fact of carrying out (perhaps in Tolède?).

Its reign coldly marks the beginning of the incursions of Berber riders Islamized into the south of wisigothic Spain; thereafter, it would have started to enlist these Berber as a mercenaries in spite of the protests, inter alia, of the catholic Église.

Decided with the total archbishop Julien of Seville of the disappearance of the Judaism in its kingdom, it organizes the removal of the Jewish children to make them baptize of force to the Catholicism and give them Christian names .

Towards the end of its reign, disputed more and more because of its military and religious reforms, it is reversed or is force to abdicate in October 680 with the profit of noble, the count “Ervige” (Flavius Ervigius). It is withdrawn consequently in a monastery of the area of Burgos into 681 and dies there in the year 688.

In spite of agitated an enough reign, king Wamba is regarded as the last of the large kings Visigoths; its inversion marks the beginning of the end of the Hispanie wisigothe. The Goths became then Mozarabes.

The bishop of Tolède Julien is the author of a Historia Rebellionis Pauli adversus Wambam , information sources on the reign of the king.

'A village of the north of Spain bears the name of this king, “Wamba”, located at about fifteen kilometers in the west of Valladolid (located at the site of an old high-place wisigothic and place of the election of Wamba?).

A tower of ford, located at the top of Tage, in the site known as As Carried of Rodao, to Vila Velha de Rodao (Portugal), bears the name of torre C Rei Wamba (turn of King Wamba).

Sources describe the birthplace of Wamba with Penamacor in Portugal district of Castelo Branco, not far from the current border with Spain