Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: or), Latin: (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the great scholars of the early Middle Ages. All the later medieval history-writing of Hispania were based on his histories. At a time of disintegration of classical culture, and aristocratic violence and illiteracy, he was involved in the conversion of the royal Visigothic Arians to Catholicism, … Wikipedia
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Isidore Of Seville , or Isidorus Hispalensis (c. 560-636), Spanish encyclopaedist and historian, was the son of Severianus, a distinguished native of Cartagena, who came to Seville about the time of the birth of Isidore. www.1911encyclopedia.org/Isidore_Of_Seville
His elder brother Leander was his immediate predecessor in the Metropolitan See of Seville ; whilst a younger brother St. Fulgentius presided over the Bishopric of Astigi. www.newadvent.org/cathen/08186a.htm