Vinitharius 'The Just' Amal Warlord of the Ostrogoths

• Preferred Name: Vinitharius 'The Just' Amal Warlord of the Ostrogoths^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: LZPK-KWB
  
• Death: 400 in Scythia, Roman Empire at LATI: N4.25 LONG: E8.3333 with note: -Hunnic Empire did not exist until 434
  
• MilitaryService: Defeated the Antes and crucified Boz, his eight sons and seventy noblemen
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: House of Amal
  
• MilitaryService: fought the Antes who were led by their leader Boz
  
• Birth: 354 in Scythia, Roman Empire at LATI: N4.25 LONG: E8.3333
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Ostrogoths
  
• Tribe Name: with note: Description: Greuthengi
  
• Killed+in+battle+at+the+"River+Erac.": with note: www.geni.com
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of the GreuthungiBET 375 AND 376
  
• Occupation: Princesse, des Francs
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy -
  
  Descendantsof Athal, Amali Goth
  
  ATHAL . Athal had two children:
  
  1. ACHIULF . Iordanes names "Achiulf et Oduulf" as the sons of Athal[32].
  2. ODWULF . Iordanes names "Achiulf et Oduulf" as the sons of Athal[51]. (no known children)
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  ACHIULF had four children:
  
  1. ANSILA
  2. EDIULF
  3. VULTWULF
  4. HERMENRICH
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  VULTWULF had one child:
  
  1. VALARAVANS
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  VALARAVANS had one child:
  
  1.VINITHARIUS
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  VINITHARIUS had one child:
  
  1. VANDALARIUS
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  VANDALARIUS, son of VINITHARIUS . Iordanes names "Vandiliarum" as son of "Vinitharius" and father of "Thiudemer et Valamir et Vidimir"[52]. Relative of Thorismund[53].
  
  1. VALAMIR (-killed in battle [468/69]). Iordanes names "Thiudemer et Valamir et Vidimir" as the sons of Vandilarius[54]. He and his brothers followed Attila the Hun into Gaul in 451[55]. Valamir commanded the Ostrogoth contingent in Attila's army which was defeated at the battle of the Catalaunian fields[56]. He was considered king of all Ostrogoths in Pannonia. Iordanes records that "Valamer…ex consobrino eius genitus Vandalario" succeeded as king after "Thorismundo" was killed fighting the Gepids in the second year of his reign[57]. He shared the land with his two brothers, retaining for himself the eastern part of the territory covering lower Slavonia. In 456, he defeated an attack by the Huns, who are said to have retreated to the River Dnieper[58]. He defeated another Hun attack on Bassianae, near Belgrade, in 467/68, but was killed in battle during a similar attack the following year.
  
  2. THEODEMIR [Thiudimir] (-Kyrrhos 474). Iordanes names "Thiudemer et Valamir et Vidimir" as the sons of Vandilarius[59]. King of the Ostrogoths in Pannonia, subordinate to his brother Valamir, he ruled over the western part of their domain which covered the county of Somogy and north-eastern Croatia. He succeeded his brother in [468/49] as King of all the Pannonian Ostrogoths. Iordanes names "Theodemir" when recording that he succeeded his brother "Valamero rege Gothorum" together with "Vidimero fratre et filio Theodorico"[60]. When the Ostrogoths left Pannonia in [473], Theodemir and his contingent went towards Constantinople. They settled in Macedonia, based in the city of Kyrrhos[61].
  - KINGS of ITALY.
  
  3. VIDIMIR (-473). Iordanes names "Thiudemer et Valamir et Vidimir" as the sons of Vandilarius[62]. King of the Ostrogoths in Pannonia, subordinate to his brother Valamir, he ruled over the central part of their domain which covered upper Slavonia. Iordanes names "Theodemir" when recording that he succeeded his brother "Valamero rege Gothorum" together with "Vidimero fratre et filio Theodorico"[63]. When the Ostrogoths left Pannonia in [473], Vidimir went into Italy where he suffered several defeats.
  a) VIDIMIR. Iordanes records that "Vidimero cum Vidimero filio" were sent to "partes Hesperias" by Theodemir[64]. After his father's death, Emperor Glycerius sent Vidimir and his contingent of Pannonian Ostrogoths to Gaul, where he settled in the Limousin[65].
  
  From the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  From the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy page on Hungary:
  
  http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#_Toc146273199
  
  VALARAVANS (Ostrogoth Generation 11)
  
  Iordanes names "Valaravans" as the son of
  
  Ben M. Angel's Summary
  From Getarum by Jordanes (maintained by Boudicca's Bard):
  
  http://www.boudicca.de/jordanes4-e.htm
  
  Ben M. Angel's summary: Vinitharius succeeds Hermanaric/Airmanareiks as King of the Ostrogoths. He di
  
  XLVIII
  XLVIII
  
  (246) Since I have followed the stories of my ancestors and retold to the best of my ability the tale of the period when both tribes, Ostrogoths and Visigoths, were united, and then clearly tr
  
  Wikipedia page on the Antes
  From the Wikipedia page on the Antes:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antes_(people)
  
  Historiography
  
  Procopius and Jordanes mention the Antes as one of three major groups of Slavic people, who inhabite
  
  Translation from a Dutch page on the Ostrogoths
  In English:
  
  Vithimiris (Vinitharius) 375-376
  
  Vithimiris would be at the helm of the Ostrogoth Empire for only a short time. He would eventually suffer many defeats fighting against the Huns. In 376,
  
  From the Wikipedia page on the Huns
  From the Wikipedia page on the Huns:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun
  
  History
  
  Pre-Attila
  
  By 139 AD, the European geographer Ptolemy writes that the "Huni" (Χοῦνοι or Χουνοἰ) are between the Bastar
  
  Wikipedia page for Ukrainian Rulers
  The timeline presented on the Wikipedia page for Ukrainian Rulers appears somewhat off from the previous two sources:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ukrainian_rulers
  
  Greuthungi
  
  The Amali dyna
  
  Events in the Life
  Events in the life of Vinitharius Amali
  
  birth: ABT 0353.
  
  event 1: AFT 0400. defeated and killed by Balamber, the Hunnic King, who rejected his claim of independence
  
  event 1: a subordinate of the Hu
  
  === Encyclopedia Brittanica - the Ostrogoths ===
  Encyclopedia Brittanica - the Ostrogoths
  
  Ostrogoth
  
  WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  See Article History
  
  Ostrogoth, member of a division of the Goths. The Ostrogoths developed an empire north of the Black Sea in the 3rd century CE and, in the late 5th century, under Theodoric the Great, established the Gothic kingdom of Italy.
  
  Italy
  
  Italy: The Ostrogothic kingdom
  
  Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, conquered Italy and killed Odoacer in 493. The decades of the Ostrogothic...
  Invading southward from the Baltic Sea, the Ostrogoths built up a huge empire stretching from the Don to the Dniester rivers (in present-day Ukraine) and from the Black Sea to the Pripet Marshes (southern Belarus). The kingdom reached its highest point under King Ermanaric, who is said to have committed suicide at an advanced age when the Huns attacked his people and subjugated them about 370. Although many Ostrogothic graves have been excavated south and southeast of Kiev, little is known about the empire. The Ostrogoths were probably literate in the 3rd century, and their trade with the Romans was highly developed.
  
  After their subjugation by the Huns, little is heard of the Ostrogoths for about 80 years, after which they reappear in Pannonia on the middle Danube River as federates of the Romans. But a pocket remained behind on the Crimean Peninsula when the bulk of them moved to central Europe, and these Crimean Ostrogoths preserved their identity through the Middle Ages. After the collapse of the Hun empire (455) the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great began to move again, first to Moesia (c. 475–488) and then to Italy. Theodoric became king of Italy in 493 and died in 526. A period of instability then ensued in the ruling dynasty, provoking the Byzantine emperor Justinian to declare war on the Ostrogoths in 535 in an effort to wrest Italy from their grasp. The war continued with varying fortunes for almost 20 years and caused untold damage to Italy, and the Ostrogoths thereafter had no national existence. They had been converted to Arian Christianity, it seems, soon after their escape from the domination of the Huns, and in this heresy they persisted until their extinction. All extant Gothic texts were written in Italy before 554.
  
  === The invasion of Italy pt 2 - excerpt article is lengthy ===
  The conditions which were imposed destroyed all the grace of the Imperial concessions, wounded the home-loving Goth in his affections and his pride, and brought him, with a rankling sense of injury in his heart, within the limits of the Empire. But having been imposed, these conditions should have been impartially enforced. As i was, the one stipulation which had now become all-important was disgracefully neglected by the two officers, Lupicinus, Count of Thrace, and Maximus (probably Duke of Moesia [1]), who had charge of the transportation of the barbarians. All day and all night, for many days and nights, the Roman ships of war were crossing and recrossing the stream, conveying to the Moesian shore a multitude which they tried in vain to number. But as they landed, the Roman centurions, thinking only of the shameful plunder to be secured for themselves or their generals, picking out here a fair-faced damsel or a handsome boy for the gratification of the vilest lust, there appropriating household slaves for the service of the villa or strong laborers for the farm, elsewhere pillaging from the wagons the linen tissues or costly fringed carpets that had contributed to the state of the late lords of Dacia - intent on all these mean or abominable depredations, suffered the warriors of the tribe to march past them with swelling hearts, and with the swords that were to avenge all these injuries not extracted from their scabbards. This hateful picture of sensuality and fatuous greed is drawn for us not by a Goth, but by two Roman historians (Zosimus and Eunapius); and in looking upon it we seem to understand more clearly why Rome must die.
  
  1. Tillemont gives him this title, but I am not able to trace his authority for it. Ammianus calls him, I think, only "dux exitiosus."
  
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  Everything was left to chance: chance, of course meant famine; and according to the concurrent testimony of Goths and Romans (Jordanes and Ammianus), even famine itself was made more severe by the "forestalling and regrating" of Lupicinus and Maximus. These men sold to strangers at a great price, first, beef and mutton, then the flesh of dogs (requisitioned from the Roman inhabitants), diseased meat and filthy offal. The price of provisions rose with terrible rapidity. The hungry Visigoths would sell a slave - they evidently still possessed slaves - for a single loaf, or pay ten pounds of silver (equivalent to 40 pounds Sterling) for one joint of meat. Slaves, money, and furniture being all exhausted, they began - even the nobles of the nation - to sell their own children. Deep must have been the misery endured by those free German hearts before they yielded to the cruel logic of the situation. "Better that our children live as slaves than that they perish before our eyes of hunger."
  
  Through the winter months of 376-377, apparently this systematic robbery went on, and still the Goths would not break their plighted faith to the Emperor. Even as in reading the ghastly history of the Terror in 1793, we are bound to keep ever in the memory of the miserable lot of the French peasant under the ancien regime, so the thought of this cold and calculated cruelty inflicted by men who had agreed to receive them as allies, and who called themselves their brothers in the faith of Christ, should be present to our mends when we hear of the cruel revenges that in Thrace, in Greece, and in Italy "Gothia" took on Rome. At length, murmurs of discontent reached the ears of Lupicinus, who concentrated his forces round the Gothic settlements. The movement was perceived and taken advantage of by the Ostrogothic chieftains Alatheus and Saphrax, who, with the young King Wideric under their charge, after sharing in Athanaric's campaign against the Huns, had fled to the Danube shores and had asked in vain for the same permission that was accorded to the Christian Visigoths. Watching their opportunity, they made a dash across the Danube, probably lower down the stream than the point where their countrymen had crossed. Thus, the peril in Moesia, already sufficiently grave, was increased by the arrival of a new and considerable host who were bound by no compact with the Empire, and had given no hostages of their fidelity. Fritigern, who
  was not yet prepared for an open breach with the Romans but nevertheless would fain fortify himself by an alliance with these powerful chiefs, slowly marched towards Marcianople [1], the capital of the Lower (or Eastern) division of Moesia. When he arrived there with his comrade in arms Alavivus, an event occurred that turned discontent into rebellion, and suspicion into deadly hate. The story is told by Jordanes, with some added details from Ammianus.
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  Wideric's (Vintharius) role in all this was to give courage to the Visigoths to start the rebellion that provided impetus for their westward march through Rome to Iberia, where they founded a new Gothic kingdom well outside the reach of the Huns.
  
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  === Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine- the Goths ===
  Goths [ґоти; goty]. The name of ancient Germanic tribes that migrated from southern Scandinavia and in the 1st century AD inhabited the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea and the Vistula River basin. In the second half of the 2nd century they began migrating south and reached the Black Sea, where they intermixed with local Scythians and Sarmatians and established a tribal state. From the middle of the 3rd century they raided the Roman provinces, forcing the Romans to abandon Dacia in 271.
  
  Internal divisions resulted in the creation of two realms: that of the Ostrogoths, from the Donets River and the Kuban to the Dnister River, and that of the Visigoths, between the Dnister River and the Danube River. The Ostrogoths captured the Black Sea states of Olbia, Tyras, and the Bosporan Kingdom and established a large empire, which reached its zenith during the reign of King Ermanaric (350–75). In the 4th century the Goths adopted Arian Christianity, and their bishop, Ulfilas, translated the Bible into Gothic (extant portions are known as the Codex Argenteus).
  
  In 375 the Huns conquered the Ostrogothic state. Some Ostrogoths remained behind in the Crimea, where they managed to survive until the 17th century, but most moved into Thrace, and later into Pannonia and, in 455, into Italy. They ruled Italy from 493 to 526; in 554 they were dispersed by Emperor Justinian I and disappeared. Gothic metal products and goldware were distributed widely throughout Eastern Europe, and with their great migration the Goths brought their metalworking skills to Western Europe. The artistic style they introduced is known as the Merovingian or Gothic style.
  
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  Braun, F. Razyskaniia v oblasti Goto-slavianskikh otnoshenii (Saint Petersburg 1899)
  Vasiliev, A. The Goths in Crimea (Cambridge, Mass 1936)
  Iordan [Jordanes]. O proiskhozhdenii i deianiiakh gotov, trans E. Skrzhinskaia (Moscow 1960)
  Burns, T. A History of the Ostrogoths (Bloomington, Ind 1984)
  
  Arkadii Zhukovsky
  
  === Conquered the Vanadi-Slavs, succeeded Hu ===
  Conquered the Vanadi-Slavs, succeeded Hunimund as King of the Ostrogoths. Was conquered by the Huns under Balamir.
  
  === The invasion of Italy - Vinitharius ===
  There was indeed a small section of the community which chose Withimir (or Winithar - Vinitharius) of the royal race of the Amals, but not a son of Hermanric (Airmanereiks), for their king, and under his leadership attempted a brave but hopeless resistance to the overpowering enemy [1]. After much slaughter he was slain in battle, and the remnant of the people, under the nominal sovereignty of the late king, but really led by his guardians Alatheus and Saphrax, made their way westward to the Dniester and joined apparently in the defense which their Visigothic kinsmen were making by that river.
  
  For the refusal of the Visigoths to answer the call of Hermanric had brought them no immunity from the attacks of the terrible invaders. The swarthy riders on their little ponies had soon swept across the plains traversed by the Dnieper and the Bug, and Athanaric found that he had to fight for his kingdom and his life against an enemy very different from the warily marching legions of Valens. He pitched his camp by the margin of the Dniester, and apparently fortified an earthen rampart which marked the confines of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic territory. He sent forward Munderic (who afterwards entered the Imperial service and was a genearl on the Arabian frontier) with a colleague named Legariman and other Gothic nobles, to a distance of 20 miles to reconnoiter the movements of the enemy, and meanwhile he drew up his army in battle array. All was leisurely, calm, and apparently scientific in the movements of the Gothic "Judex": but unfortunately he had to deal with an utterly unscientific foe. The Huns, cleverly conjecturing where the main bulk of the Gothic army was posted, avoided that part of the river, found a ford at some distance, crossed it by moonlight, and fell upon the flank of the unsuspecting Athanaric before a single scout gave notice of their approach. The Goth, stupified by the onslaught and dismayed by the death of several of his chiefs, withdrew to the territory of his friendly neighbors, the Taifali, and began to construct a fortified position for the remnants of his army between the mountains of Transylvania and the River Sereth [2]. The Huns pursued him for some distance; but, loaded with spoils and perhaps well-nigh sated with killing, they soon relaxed the eagerness of their pursuit.
  
  (The text appears to set this event in 376, just after the Hun conquest of the Goths, and the split of the Visigoths from those who were subjugated by the invaders. "IThe really important event, the hurling of the Visigoths against the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire, unquestionably took place in 376.)
  
  1. The Huns seem to have left the work of crushing this inconsiderable resistance to their confederates, the Alani ("Cujus post obitum rex Vithimiris creatus restitit aliquantisper Halanis," are the words of Ammiacus.)
  
  2. Thus, as von Wistersheim points out, we must probably correct the words of Ammianus, "A superciliis Gerasi fluminis ad uaque Danubium... muros altius erigebat." It is almost certain that Athanaric would construct his line of defense westward to the mountains, not eastward to the Danube.
  
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  The text then describes the arrival of 200,000 fighting men, along with all their dependents (women and children) at the Danube River, the frontier between Dacia (modern Romania) and Moesia (modern Bulgaria). The Visigoths requested asylum, to which the authorities said they could not grant on their own responsibility, but would seek from the Emperor, located at the time in Antioch (near present Syria). Emperor Valens agreed to accept them, but on "hard and ignominious" conditions.
  
  === Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine -The Antes ===
  Antes (Greek: Antae; Ukrainian: Анти; Anty). The name used by the Gothic historian Jordanes and by Byzantine writers of the 6th-7th century—Agthias, Procopius, Menander, Theophylactus, and others—for the east Slavic tribes of the fourth–seventh centuries. Scholars disagree on the origin and meaning of this term, which was first used in the 3rd century. Aleksei Shakhmatov argued that the name designated all the East Slavic tribes, while others held that it designated only their southern part. In the 4th–7th century the Antes formed a large tribal alliance that covered the territories between the Dniper River and the Dnister River and in some periods extended throughout most of the forest-steppe belt from the Carpathian Mountains and the lower Danube River to the Sea of Azov.
  
  Agriculture was the Antes' main occupation, in which they used the iron plow. The skilled trades, particularly pottery and ironworking, were highly developed among them. There is evidence that they also engaged in internal and foreign trade, especially with the Roman Empire, and that they used Roman silver coins. The basic unit of Antes society was the village commune. With time, individual land use, private land control, and farms appeared. Slavery was widely practiced; Byzantine historians wrote that the Antes took tens of thousands of war captives and turned them into slaves.
  
  The tribal alliance of the Antes was extensive enough to support a large military force. Some sources mention the figure of 100,000 warriors, but this is probably an exaggeration. The alliance was led by princes and the tribal oligarchy. Jordanes and Byzantine sources of the 6th–7th century mention such princes as Bozh (Boz), Ardagast, and Teiragast and the generals Chilbudins and Dobrogast.
  
  In the 4th century the Antes came into conflict with the Goths, who wanted to establish hegemony over Eastern Europe. After several defeats the Gothic king Vinitharius captured, in 385, Prince Bozh of the Antes, his sons, and 70 nobles. All of them were executed. The invasion of the Huns, however, prevented the Goths from establishing a firm rule over the Antes. In the 6th century the Antes, together with the closely related Sclavini, began to attack the Balkan parts of the Byzantine Empire. At first they were interested only in booty and slaves, but by the second half of the 6th century the Antes began to settle in these lands. The Antes resettled so quickly that by the end of the 6th century the territories of contemporary Bulgaria and Yugoslavia were Slavicized.
  
  From the end of the 6th century the Antes fought stubbornly against the Avars, who established their khaganate in Eastern Europe. This war led to the disintegration of the tribal alliance and the disappearance of the Antes as a political force. From the beginning of the 7th century Byzantine writers no longer mention the Antes.
  
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  Rybakov, B. ‘Anty i Kievskaia Rus',’ Vestnik drevnei istorii, 1939, no. 1
  Tret'iakov, P. Vostochnoslavianskie plemena (Moscow 1953)
  Braichevs'kyi, M. Bilia dzherel slov'ians'koï derzhavnosti (Kyiv 1964)
  Petrov, V. Etnohenez slov'ian (Kyiv 1972)
  Mishko, S. Narys rann'oï istoriï Rusy-Ukraïny, ed O. Dombrovs'kyi (New York–Toronto–Munich 1981)
  
  === Wikipedia -article is speculative, may contain errors ===
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinitharius
  
  The wife of Balamber was said to the the granddaughter of Vinitharius, not the daughter. The age difference is significant, so it could be either one.
  
  === Turton begins with Winithar and does not ===
  Turton begins with Winithar and does not recognize the generations before. The exact lineage before him is suspect; however, it seems likely they did descend from the early Goth kings, as heredity was important. Turton does state, "Stokvis, Vol. III, 692, says that Ermaniric (d. 376), great-Uncle and predecessor of Winithar, ruled over the whole country from the Baltic to the Black Sea." This supports the idea that Winithar did descend from the early kings. Sources: Magna Charta/Plantagenet Ancestors/Funk & Wagnals.
  
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1. Vandalarius , b. 378 in Scythia, Roman Empire     d. ABT 459 in Pannonia, Roman Empire

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   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].
   
6. Title: History.com- Hunnic Empire
   Publication: Name: https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/attila;
   Note: Attila the Hun was the leader of the Hunnic Empire from 434 to 453 A.D. The Huns were a nomadic tribe from Central Asia that scholars believe may have begun to enter Europe by the 2nd century A.D. or earlier. The main body of the Huns had definitively entered Europe and conquered the Alans (ancient Iranian nomads) by the mid-370s. They also invaded the Pontic steppes and forced thousands of Goths to seek refuge in Roman cities in the Lower Danube. Attila was born north of the Danube River shortly after this activity, sometime in the early 5th century A.D. Though ancient Rome considered the Huns to be barbarians, Attila’s upbringing was far from the brutish affair one might expect. Attila, along with this elder brother Bleda, was born into the most powerful family in the Hunnic Empire. During the 420s and early 430s, the Hun brothers’ uncles, Octar (Uptaros) and Ruga (Roga or Rua), ruled the Hunnic Empire. Attila and Bleda inherited the Hunnic Empire from Octar and Ruga after the uncles died in 434.
   
7. Title: The Origin and Deeds of the Goths - Jordanes
   Publication: Name: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html#visi;
   
8. Title: Encyclopedia Britannica
   Author: https://www.britannica.com/editor/Michael-Ray/6392
   Publication: Name: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ostrogoth;
   Note: Ostrogoth, member of a division of the Goths. The Ostrogoths developed an empire north of the Black Sea in the 3rd century CE and, in the late 5th century, under Theodoric the Great, established the Gothic kingdom of Italy. Invading southward from the Baltic Sea, the Ostrogoths built up a huge empire stretching from the Don to the Dniester rivers (in present-day Ukraine) and from the Black Sea to the Pripet Marshes (southern Belarus). The kingdom reached its highest point under King Ermanaric, who is said to have committed suicide at an advanced age when the Huns attacked his people and subjugated them about 370. Although many Ostrogothic graves have been excavated south and southeast of Kiev, little is known about the empire. The Ostrogoths were probably literate in the 3rd century, and their trade with the Romans was highly developed. Italy: The Ostrogothic kingdom Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, conquered Italy and killed Odoacer in 493. The decades of the Ostrogothic... After their subjugation by the Huns, little is heard of the Ostrogoths for about 80 years, after which they reappear in Pannonia on the middle Danube River as federates of the Romans. But a pocket remained behind on the Crimean Peninsula when the bulk of them moved to central Europe, and these Crimean Ostrogoths preserved their identity through the Middle Ages. After the collapse of the Hun empire (455) the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great began to move again, first to Moesia (c. 475–488) and then to Italy. Theodoric became king of Italy in 493 and died in 526. A period of instability then ensued in the ruling dynasty, provoking the Byzantine emperor Justinian to declare war on the Ostrogoths in 535 in an effort to wrest Italy from their grasp. The war continued with varying fortunes for almost 20 years and caused untold damage to Italy, and the Ostrogoths thereafter had no national existence. They had been converted to Arian Christianity, it seems, soon after their escape from the domination of the Huns, and in this heresy they persisted until their extinction. All extant Gothic texts were written in Italy before 554.
   
9. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: VINITHARIUS
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#_ftnref36;
   Note: i) VALARAVANS . Iordanes names "Valaravans" as the son of Vultwulf. Valaravans had one child: (a) VINITHARIUS . Iordanes names "Vinitharius" as the son of Valaravans. Vinitharius had one child: (1) VANDALARIUS . Iordanes names "Vandiliarum" as son of Vinitharius.
   
10. Title: Invasion of Italy -Vinitharius circa 376
    Publication: Name: http://www.archive.org/stream/italyandherinva12hodggoog#page/n289/mode/1up;
    
11. Title: wiki/Greuthungi
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greuthungi;
    
12. Title: Wikipedia
    Publication: Name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinitharius;