After numerous years of migration, which lead the Visigoths to compare themselves to the Biblical Hebrew people wandering for 40 years in the Sinai Desert, the Visigoths settle in southern Gaul as foederati of the Romans in 418.

For unknown reasons, they soon fall out with their hosts and establish their own kingdom with its capital at Toulouse.

Extending their authority into Hispania at the expense of the Vandals, their rule in Gaul is ended by the Franks under Clovis I at the Battle of Vouillé in 507.

Thereafter the only territory north of the Pyrenees that the Visigoths hold was Septimania, such that their kingdom becomes limited to Hispania.

The province comes to be dominated by the Visigothic small governing elite at the expense of the Byzantine province of Spania and the Suebic Kingdom of Galicia.