Achiulf of the Amali

• Preferred Name: Achiulf of the Amali^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Life+Sketch: with note: Description: Filho de Athal "the Mild" of the Greuthungi e (Generation 8) Marido de (Generation 9) Pai de Ansila of the Greuthungi; Airmanareiks, King of the Goths; Ediulf of the Greuthungi e Vultwulf, Prince of the Greuthungi Irmão de Odwulf of the Greunthungi " merge info
  
• Death: 340 in Scythia, Roman Empire at LATI: N4.25 LONG: E8.3333 with note: Scythia, (Present day Ukraine)
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: House of Amal
  
• Tribe Name: with note: Description: Greuthingi
  
• Birth: ABT 265 in Scythia, Roman Empire at LATI: N4.25 LONG: E8.3333
  
• FSID: LHZF-MXX
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  From Wikipedia
  
  Achiulf was a king of the early Ostrogothic Kingdom. He was the successor to Athal. During his reign, the surrounding nations of the Sarmatians, Scythians, and Gepids were subjugated by the Ostrogoths. Achiulf was succeeded in around 350 by Ermanerik (Airmanareiks).
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  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  
  DYNASTY of the AMAL GOTHS
  
  Iordanes sets out the supposed ancestors of Athal, in order, as follows "Gapt…Hulmul…Augis…Amal a quo et origo Amalorum decurrit…Hisarnis…Ostrogotha…Hunuil…Athal"[31]. Nothing is known about the Amal Goth leaders, supposed descendants of Athal, who are shown below apart from the sparse amount of information that has been extracted from Iordanes.
  
  ATHAL . Athal had two children:
  
  1. ACHIULF . Iordanes names "Achiulf et Oduulf" as the sons of Athal[32]. Achiulf had four children:
  a) ANSILA . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf[33].
  b) EDIULF . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf[34].
  c) VULTWULF . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf[35]. Vultwulf had one child:
  i) VALARAVANS . Iordanes names "Valaravans" as the son of Vultwulf[36]. Valaravans had one child:
  (a) VINITHARIUS . Iordanes names "Vinitharius" as the son of Valaravans[37]. Vinitharius had one child:
  (1) VANDALARIUS . Iordanes names "Vandiliarum" as son of Vinitharius[38].
  - see below.
  d) HERMENRICH . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf[39]. Hermenrich had one child:
  i) HUNIMUND . Iordanes names "Hunimundum" as son of "Hermanaricus"[40]. Hunimund had one child:
  (a) THORISMUND (-killed in battle [451/55]). Iordanes names "Thorismundo" as son of "Hunimundus"[41]. Iordanes records that "Thorismundo filius eius" succeeded as King of the Goths after the death of "Hunimundus filius quondam regis…Hermanarici" but was killed fighting the Gepids in the second year of his reign[42]. Thorismund had one child:
  (1) BERIMUD . Iordanes names "Berimud" as son of "Thorismundo"[43]. Iordanes records that "Beremud…cum filio Vitiricho" left the Ostrogoths to join "Vallia rex Gothorum" [King of the Visigoths in Toulouse][44]. The implication of a later passage in Iordanes, which records that "Valamer…ex consobrino eius genitus Vandalario" succeeded as king after "Thorismundo" was killed[45], is that Berimud's departure was triggered after he was passed over in the succession. Berimud had one child:
  a. VETERICUS . Iordanes names "Vetericum" as son of "Berimud"[46]. Vetericus had one child:
  (i) EUTHARICH (-[522/23]). Iordanes names "Eutharicum" as son of "Vetericus" as the husband of "Amalasuentham" and father of their two children[47]. Eutharic was adopted by Emperor Justin in recognition of his father-in-law's decision to designate him as his successor after his marriage. He was given Roman citizenship and became the first consul in 519 as FLAVIUS EUTHARICUS CILLIGA[48]. Wolfram estimates that Eutharich died in [522/23][49]. Jordanes specifies that Eutharich predeceased King Theodoric's nomination of his son Athalaric as his successor. m (515) AMALASUINTHA, daughter of THEODORIC King of the Ostrogoths in Italy & his wife Audofledis of the Franks ([493]-murdered [30 Apr] 535). The Chronicle of Cassiodorus records the marriage in 515 of "Theodericus filiam usam dominam Amalasuintam" and "gloriosi viri dn Eutharici"[50].
  
  2. ODWULF . Iordanes names "Achiulf et Oduulf" as the sons of Athal[51].
  
  === Wikipedia - Achiulf of the Amali Ostrogoths ===
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  The Amali – also called Amals, Amalings or Amalungs – were a leading dynasty of the Goths, a Germanic people who confronted the Roman Empire during the decline of the Western Roman Empire.[1] They eventually became the royal house of the Ostrogoths and founded the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy.[2]
  
  Origin
  The Amal clan was claimed to have descended from the divine.[3] Jordanes accounts Gothic origins as follows: "Now the first of these heroes, as they themselves relate in their legends, was Gapt, who begat Hulmul. And Hulmul begat Augis; and Augis begat him who was called Amal, from whom the name of the Amali comes. Athal begat Achiulf and Oduulf. Now Achiulf begat Ansila and Ediulf, Vultuulf and Ermanaric."[4] Gapt or Gaut is the Scandinavian god of war. Hulmul or Humli-Hulmul, is considered the divine father of the Danish people.[3] Ermanaric (also referred to as Ermanaricus or Hermanaric), is identified as a Greuthungian king who ruled territories in modern Ukraine. Ermanaric signals the tenth generation, and the first generation to be backed by historical record.[3]
  
  History
  The Amali remained a prominent family as the Greuthungi evolved into the Ostrogoths, became vassals of the Huns and moved west. In 453, the Ostrogoths regained their independence under the Amali, Theodemir. According to Jordanes, "Vultuulf begat Valaravans and Valaravans begat Vinitharius. Vinitharius moreover begat Vandalarius; Vandalarius begat Theodemir and Valamir and Vidimer."[4] Theodemir's son, Theoderic the Great, founded the Ostrogothic Kingdom.
  
  A separate branch of the family were members of the Visigoths. Sigeric, a brief usurper to the Visigothic throne in 415, may have been a member of the Amali. Another Visigoth, Eutharic, reunited the branches of the family by marrying Theoderic's daughter Amalasuntha. Jordanes states "Hermanaric, the son of Achiulf, begat Hunimund, and Hunimund begat Thorismud. Now Thorismud begat Beremud, Beremud begat Veteric, and Veteric likewise begat Eutharic."
  
  The last attested member of the Amali house was Theodegisclus, son of Theodahad.
  
  In Literature
  In the Nibelungenlied and some other medieval German epic poems, the followers of Dietrich von Bern are referred to as 'Amelungen'. In other cases, Amelung is reinterpreted as the name of one of Dietrich's ancestors. The Kaiserchronik also refers to Dietrich/Theoderic's family as the 'Amelungen', and in a letter of bishop Meinhard von Bamberg, as well as the Annals of Quedlinburg, 'Amulungum'/'Amelung' ("the Amelung") is used to refer to Dietrich himself. This shows that the family's legacy was remembered in oral tradition far into the Middle Ages, long after any stories about Amal himself had ceased to circulate.
  
  Cassiodorus' Origo Gothica describes the Goths moving to the Black Sea, where they split into two factions, the Amali, who would later become the Ostrogoths, and the Balthi, who become the Visigoths. Both the Amali and the Balthi are recalled as families of "kings and heroes."[3] However, even before Cassiodorus' time, the tradition of the Amal appeared to be still popular. This is shown in the naming of the royals, like Theodoric's daughters, Ostrogotho and Amalasuintha, and his sister, Amalafrida, who were all given Amal names.[3]
  
  Legacy
  At least two families claimed descent from Amali. The first family was Billungs, Dukes of Saxony. They were also known as Amelungs or von Ömlingen. Another family was Solovjovs, Barons of the Russian Empire from 1727 (in German speaking sources known as von Solowhoff or Solowhoff von Greutungen). Solovjovs claimed Ermanaric was their ancestor.
  
  Ermanaric, king of the Greuthungi, ca 370
  Sigeric, king of the Visigoths, 415
  Theodemir, king of the Ostrogoths, until 474
  Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, 474–526
  Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths, 526–534
  Theodahad, king of the Ostrogoths, 534–536

1. Vultwulf Ap Achiulf, Prince of the Goths, b. 287 in Italy     d. 0378 г. in Scythia, Roman Empire
2. Ermanaric ap Achiulf of the Greuthengi Ostrogoths, b. 295 in Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy     d. 30 AUG 375 in Pannonia, Roman Empire

1. Title: The Origin and Deeds of the Goths - Jordanes
   Publication: Name: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html#visi;
   
2. Title: Wikipedia, List of Ukrainian rulers (including Tervingi and Greuthingi)
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ukrainian_rulers;
   Note: Gothic rulers Main article: Chernyakhov culture In 238, the Goths for the first time passed the Danube, and took to the Black Sea. The division of the Goths (Thervingi-Vesi and Greuthungi-Ostrogothi) is first attested in 291. Tervingi The Balti dynasty, Balth(e)s, Baltungs, or Balthings, existed among the Tervingi ("forest people"), called later the Visigothi. The names of the Drevlyans and the Gothic Tervingi in Ukraine have often been adduced as parallels to agac-ari ("forest men" in Turkic). Nidad, reik ("ruler") (c. 218 – 249) Ovida, son of Nidad, co-ruler (c. 249 – 273) Cniva a.k.a. Kniwa ("knife"), brother of Ovida, co-ruler Ilderic a.k.a. Hilderith, son of Ovida, co-ruler (c. 273 – 317) Ariaric a.k.a. Ascaric, brother of Hilderith, co-ruler Geberic a.k.a. Geberich, son of Hilderith, kindin ("king") (c. 317 – 350) Athanaric a.k.a. Aþanareiks ("year-king"), pagan, Gunþi-reik ("battle prince") (365–381) Fritigern a.k.a. Frithugairns ("desiring peace"), converted to Arianism, Gunþi-reik (369–382) Greuthungi The Amali dynasty, Amals, Amaler, or Amalings of the Greuthungi ("steppe dwellers" or "people of the pebbly coasts"), called later the Ostrogothi. Amal (Amala), the Fortunate, born fl. 110 or c. 123 Hisarna, (Isarna), the Iron One, born fl. 140 or c. 153 Ostrogotha, the Patient, born fl. 170 or c. 183, died c. 250 in Ukraine Hunuil ("Immune to Magic") a.k.a. Ginvila, born fl. 210 or c. 213 Athal (Athala), the Noble One, born fl. 240 or c. 243 in Ukraine Achiulf (Agiulf), born fl. 270 or c. 273 in Ukraine Wultwulf (Vultuulf, Vulthulf, Vuldulf), born fl. 300 in Ukraine, died fl. 370, prince of the Goths Ermanaric (Hermanaric, Ermanarich, Hermanarik), born c. 303 in Ukraine, king of the Getae/Greutungi/Ostrogoths (335 or 350 – 375 or 376) Winithar (Vinitharius), Conqueror of the Venedi-Slavs (Antes), born fl. 345 or c. 353 in Ukraine, the last independent king of the Ostrogoths (376–380) Hunimund ("Protege of the Huns"), the Beautiful, born c. 326 in Ukraine, the first Hunnic vassal prince of the Ostrogoths (376-fl.405)
   
3. Title: Migration Period between Odra and Vistula
   Author: The project is financed by the National Science Centre granted on the basis of decision DEC-2011/02/A/HS3/00389 Most translations by Anna Kinecka © anna-kinecka@wp.p
   Publication: Name: http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/thesaurus/tribes-and-peoples/ostrogoths-;
   Note: Ostrogoths Ostrogoths, Greutungi, steppe Goths. The heyday of Cherniakhiv Culture was during the second half of the 3rd and 4th century, under Ermanaric (Hermanaric), the last king of the O. before the invasion of the →Huns , from the royal house of the Amali. Cherniakhiv culture is known from not less than 3000 cemeteries and settlements, its distinctive traits include the tradition in which men’s graves were not furnished with weapons and tools, women’s dress accessories included a pair of matching brooches, silver or bronze, with a half-round head, a belt buckle, and a necklace of glass and amber beads, a biritual burial rite and basically, non-deposition of iron objects in graves. Many of these attributes, e.g., the forms of metal dress accessories and jewellery, are observed earlier in →Wielbark Culture . Large settlements of Cherniakhiv Culture are also known, with great hall houses and with smaller dugouts, used for storage and production. A regular find in all the sites of Cherniakhiv Culture is a large quantity of fine quality wheel-turned pottery. The kingdom of Ermanaric supposedly extended to the Baltic and the forest zone of East Europe, but it would be more correct to speak of a Gothic domination rather than of an actual state organism. The invasion of the →Huns in 375 precipitated the fall of Cherniakhiv Culture. In late 4th century its settlement is fragmented, with some pockets found as far as the Don River, the Crimea and the Caucasus. These would be the relics of the →Goths who after being routed by the Huns did not set off to the west. In the eastern area of Crimea, on the Kerch Peninsula, at Panticapaeum, the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom, many elite O. and Danish graves were discovered, containing gold objects decorated with garnets and almandines in the →Polychrome Style . The style originated on the Black Sea and in the eastern Mediterranean, and ornaments and harness fittings of this sort were popular among the barbarians →Goths . From the mountainous area of Crimea several cemeteries with catacomb graves are known, some attributable to the O. who, according to Procopius of Caesarea, lived in the region called Dory where they had taken shelter prior the Hunnic invasion. The presence of →Goths in Crimea is confirmed until the 18th century. In 379/380 some of the O. were made to settle in Pannonia between the Drava and the Sava rivers. In provincial Roman cemeteries we find graves with barbarian objects and, to the east of the Danube, graves with ornaments in Cherniakhiv style. Nevertheless, as a rule the Goths in the provinces soon became Romanized. Numerous graves discovered in the Middle Danube region contained very rich furnishings among them, nomad and East Germanic dated to the late 4th and to the first half of the 5th century, attributable to the O., Scirii, →Heruli , Rugii and →Gepids. The burial of a woman discovered at Untersiebenbrunn in Lower Austria, with Roman ornaments but also East Germanic ones, documents the fashion of elite barbarian women in central and Western Europe which is referred to as Danubian or the Untersiebenbrunn horizon →Sösdala-Untersiebenbrunn Style. In 405 O., a force of some 200 000 men under Radagaisus, appeared in Italy but were routed and their leader perished. After the Battle of Nedao and the defeat of the →Huns in 456 the kingdom of the O. was established in Pannonia, as allies of Byzantium, in return for an annual tribute. Theodoric, the son of one of three Ostrogothic kings, later known as Theodoric the Great, spent ten years in Constantinople as a hostage to guarantee the peace with Ostrogoths. As an eighteen year old he returned to his people and after a victory over the Sarmatians was proclaimed king. Unable to sustain themselves in Pannonia where the Roman economic system had been destroyed the Goths were led by Theodoric on a several years’ trek across the Balkan Peninsula and in 488, with the permission from Emperor Zeno, made for Italy to settle there. After clashes with Odoacer and his murder, from 493 the Ostrogoths became rulers of Italy, Dalmatia and the Alpine region of today’s Austria and eastern Switzerland. The capital of the Ostrogoths acknowledged by Byzantium was Ravenna. Theodoric the Great kept the Roman system of administration and made a series of useful alliances with the Germanic kingdoms of the →Franks , →Thuringi, →Vandals in Africa and the →Visigoths . The O. ruler respected Roman culture and had as a member of his court →Cassiodorus, senator and historian, author of the now lost history of the →Goths . After the death of Theodoric in 526 the system of alliances broke down and Emperor Justinian sent an army under Belisarius to take back Italy. After a year-long siege of Rome by the Goths they were defeated in 552 in the Battle of Busta Gallorum in the Apennines in which their last king, Totila, was slain. In 561 Verona, the last stronghold of the Goths, fell and Italy found itself for a brief time, until the coming of the Langobards in 568, under the rule of Rome of the East. From Italy, especially its northern region, a small number of O. graves is known. In men’s graves traditionally there are no weapons and the female dress accessories follow the model which may be traced back to the Cherniakhiv Culture (fig. 1-3.). These rich female burials mostly date from the earliest phase of Ostrogothic presence in Italy and a part of them may even be linked to the Scirii of Odoacer. There is also a number of hoards of gold and silver ornaments, from Reggio Emilia, Desana and Domagnano (fig. 4.). Graves with very modest furnishings are an expression of steady Romanization of the O.
   
4. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: ACHIULF
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#_ftnref31;
   Note: 1. ACHIULF . Iordanes names "Achiulf et Oduulf" as the sons of Athal. Achiulf had four children: a) ANSILA . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf b) EDIULF . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf. c) VULTWULF . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achi d) HERMENRICH . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf.
   
5. Title: Wikipedia - Amali Dynasty
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amali_dynasty;
   
6. Title: Geni - Amali Dynasty
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Athal-the-Mild-of-the-Greuthungi/6000000009461014840?through=6000000009460952456;
   
7. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: DYNASTY of the AMAL GOTHS
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#_ftnref30;
   Note: B. DYNASTY of the AMAL GOTHS Iordanes sets out the supposed ancestors of Athal, in order, as follows "Gapt…Hulmul…Augis…Amal a quo et origo Amalorum decurrit…Hisarnis…Ostrogotha…Hunuil…Athal"[31]. Nothing is known about the Amal Goth leaders, supposed descendants of Athal, who are shown below apart from the sparse amount of information which has been extracted from Iordanes. ATHAL . Athal had two children: 1. ACHIULF . Iordanes names "Achiulf et Oduulf" as the sons of Athal[32]. Achiulf had four children: a) ANSILA . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf[33]. b) EDIULF . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf[34]. c) VULTWULF . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf[35]. Vultwulf had one child: i) VALARAVANS . Iordanes names "Valaravans" as the son of Vultwulf[36]. Valaravans had one child: (a) VINITHARIUS . Iordanes names "Vinitharius" as the son of Valaravans[37]. Vinitharius had one child: (1) VANDALARIUS . Iordanes names "Vandiliarum" as son of Vinitharius[38]. - see below. d) HERMENRICH . Iordanes names "Ansila et Ediulf, Vultuulf et Hermenerig" as the sons of Achiulf[39]. Hermenrich had one child: i) HUNIMUND . Iordanes names "Hunimundum" as son of "Hermanaricus"[40]. Hunimund had one child: (a) THORISMUND (-killed in battle [451/55]). Iordanes names "Thorismundo" as son of "Hunimundus"[41]. Iordanes records that "Thorismundo filius eius" succeeded as King of the Goths after the death of "Hunimundus filius quondam regis…Hermanarici" but was killed fighting the Gepids in the second year of his reign[42]. Thorismund had one child: (1) BERIMUD . Iordanes names "Berimud" as son of "Thorismundo"[43]. Iordanes records that "Beremud…cum filio Vitiricho" left the Ostrogoths to join "Vallia rex Gothorum" [King of the Visigoths in Toulouse][44]. The implication of a later passage in Iordanes, which records that "Valamer…ex consobrino eius genitus Vandalario" succeeded as king after "Thorismundo" was killed[45], is that Berimud's departure was triggered after he was passed over in the succession. Berimud had one child: a. VETERICUS . Iordanes names "Vetericum" as son of "Berimud"[46]. Vetericus had one child: (i) EUTHARICH (-[522/23]). Iordanes names "Eutharicum" as son of "Vetericus" and as husband of "Amalasuentham" and father of their two children[47]. Eutharic was adopted by Emperor Justin in recognition of his father-in-law's decision to designate him his successor after his marriage. He was given Roman citizenship and became first consul in 519 as FLAVIUS EUTHARICUS CILLIGA[48]. Wolfram estimates that Eutharich died in [522/23][49]. Jordanes specifies that Eutharich predeceased King Theodoric's nomination of his son Athalaric as his successor. m (515) AMALASUINTHA, daughter of THEODORIC King of the Ostrogoths in Italy & his wife Audofledis of the Franks ([493]-murdered [30 Apr] 535). The Chronicle of Cassiodorus records the marriage in 515 of "Theodericus filiam usam dominam Amalasuintam" and "gloriosi viri dn Eutharici"[50]. 2. ODWULF . Iordanes names "Achiulf et Oduulf" as the sons of Athal[51].
   
8. Title: Wikipedia - Achiulf
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amali_dynasty;
   
9. Title: Geni.com
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Achiulf-of-the-Greuthungi/6000000009460409082;
   
10. Title: George Pohl blog -ostrogothic descent
    Publication: Name: http://georgepohl.typepad.com/gernanic_teutonic_origins/2015/03/-ostrogothic-descent.html;