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Conocido también como Aquila
Padre de Diego de Liebana Y Cantábria and Fáfila
Aquila (called the second for being his father's namesake) was a prince of Visigothic lineage who ruled the duchy of Terraconense-province of the Kingdom that had existed under this name since the beginning of the Roman Empire. Throughout the 6th and 7th centuries, the Tarraconense province suffered numerous attacks promoted by the different Frankish kingdoms on the other side of the Pyrenees, and served as a base for the different Visigoth kings of Toledo to defend their possessions from Gaul Narbonense; also, the visigodos kings used the province like starting point to penetrate and to conquer the territories of Cantabria and the Basques, that became independent when the Roman power disappeared in the Peninsula.
With the Muslim invasion of 711 and the destruction of the Visigothic Kingdom, the system of territorial administration of the Iberian Peninsula, inherited from Rome, disappeared, and with it the Tarraconense province, although the eastern area served as the last bastion of resistance to the last two Visigoth monarchs.