from 612 until his death. He campaigned successfully against the remains of Byzantine power in Spania, strengthened Visigothic control over the Basques and Cantabrians, developed friendly relations with the Lombards of Italy, and reinforced the fleet which had been established by his predecessor Leovigild. In 616, he ordered that those Jews who refused to convert to Christianity should be punished with the lash. He was closely associated with the great statesman and encyclopaedist Isidore, bis… (More on Sisebut)