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Theodoric of the Ostrogoths King of the Ostrogoths Ruler of Italy Regent of the Visigoths


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Father: Theodemir King of the Ostrogoths, b. 413 in Scythia   d. 474 in Kyrrhos, Macedonia
Mother: Ereleuva Eusebia of Verona, b. ABT 440 in Pannonia, Roman Empire   d. ABT 500 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Roman Empire

Family 1: Moesian concubine ,      
Family 2: Audofleda of Salian Franks,    b. 25 de dezembro de 462 in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, França    d. 30 APR 526 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
  1. Clothilde D'AMAL DES AMALES d' OSTROGOTHIE, b. aproximadamente 0526 in Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, France     d. nach 0580 in Somme, Picardie, France
  2. Theodora AMALES the Ostrogoths, b. ABT 475 in Roman Empire     d. 526 in Cartagena, Spain
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  1. Title: Geni: Theodoric "the Great," king of the Ostrogoths
    Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Theodoric-the-Great-king-of-the-Ostrogoths/6000000000495138391?through=6000000003649751712;
    Note: Theodoric Gender: Male Birth: 454 Lake Nieusedl, Pannonia (Present Hungary), Hun Empire Death: August 26, 526 (72) Ravenna, Flaminia et Picenum (Present Provincia di Ravenna), Italia Annonaria (Present Emilia-Romagna), Italy Place of Burial: Mausoleo di Teodorico, Ravenna, Provincia di Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Immediate Family: Son of Theodomir, king of the Ostrogoths and Ereleuva, concubine of Theodimir Husband of Theodora of the Visigoths; Amalaberge of the Franks and Audofledis of the Salian Franks Partner of Unknown woman of Moesia Father of Theodogotho; Ostrogotho and Amalasuintha, Queen of Italy Brother of Amalafreda "the Elder", Queen of the Vandals Added by: Randy Edwards on March 8, 2007 Managed by: Margaret (C) and 175 others Curated by: Ben M. Angel, still catching up Immediate Family Showing 11 people Audofledis of the Salian Franks wife Amalasuintha, Queen of Italy daughter Unknown woman of Moesia partner Theodogotho daughter Ostrogotho daughter Amalaberge of the Franks wife Theodora of the Visigoths wife Ereleuva, concubine of Theodimir mother Theodomir, king of the Ostrogoths father Amalafreda "the Elder", Queen of... sister N.N. Queen of the Ostrogoths stepmother
  2. Title: Wikiwand: Ostrogoths
    Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ostrogoths;
    Note: The Ostrogoths (Latin: "Ostrogothi," "Austrogothi") were the eastern branch of the older Goths (the other major branch being the Visigoths). The Ostrogoths traced their origins to the Greutungi – a branch of the Goths who had migrated southward from the Baltic Sea and established a kingdom north of the Black Sea, during the 3rd and 4th centuries. They built an empire stretching from the Black Sea to the Baltic. The Ostrogoths were probably literate in the 3rd century, and their trade with the Romans was highly developed. Their Danubian kingdom reached its zenith under King Ermanaric, who is said to have committed suicide at an old age when the Huns attacked his people and subjugated them in about 370. After their annexation by the Huns, little was heard of the Ostrogoths for about 80 years, after which they reappeared in Pannonia on the middle Danube River as federates of the Romans. After the collapse of the Hun empire after the Battle of Nedao (453), Ostrogoths migrated westwards towards Illyria and the borders of Italy, while some remained in the Crimea (where the Crimean Ostrogoths existed as a distinct people until at least the 16th century). During the late 5th and 6th centuries, under Theodoric the Great most of the Ostrogoths moved first to Moesia (c. 475–488) and later (493) established the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy, when Theodoric defeated the Germanic warrior Odoacer's forces and killed his rival Germanic chieftain at a banquet. A period of instability then ensued, tempting the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian to declare war on the Ostrogoths in 535 in an effort to restore the former western provinces of the Roman Empire. Initially, the Byzantines were successful, but under the leadership of Totila, the Goths reconquered most of the lost territory until Totila's death at the Battle of Taginae. The war lasted for almost 21 years and caused enormous damage across Italy, reducing the population of the peninsula. The remaining Ostrogoths were absorbed into the Lombards, who established a kingdom in Italy in 568. Divided Goths: Greuthungi and Ostrogothi A division of the Goths is first attested in 291. The Tervingi are first attested around that date; the Greuthungi, Vesi, and Ostrogothi are all attested no earlier than 388. The Greuthungi are first named by Ammianus Marcellinus, writing no earlier than 392 and perhaps later than 395, and basing his account on the words of a Tervingian chieftain who is attested as early as 376. The Ostrogoths are first named in a document dated September 392 from Milan. Claudian mentions that they together with the "Greuthungi" inhabit Phrygia. According to Herwig Wolfram, the primary sources either use the terminology of Tervingi/Greuthungi or Vesi/Ostrogothi and never mix the pairs. All four names were used together, but the pairing was always preserved, as in Gruthungi, Ostrogothi, Tervingi, Vesi. That the Tervingi were the Vesi/Visigothi and the Greuthungi the Ostrogothi is also supported by Jordanes. He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric. This interpretation, however, though very common among scholars today, is not universal. According to the Jordanes' Getica, around 400 the Ostrogoths were ruled by Ostrogotha and derived their name from this "father of the Ostrogoths," but modern historians often assume the converse, that Ostrogotha was named after the people. Both Herwig Wolfram and Thomas Burns conclude that the terms Tervingi and Greuthungi were geographical identifiers used by each tribe to describe the other. This terminology therefore dropped out of use after the Goths were displaced by the Hunnic invasions. In support of this, Wolfram cites Zosimus as referring to a group of "Scythians" north of the Danube who were called "Greuthungi" by the barbarians north of the Ister. Wolfram asserts that it was the Tervingi who remained behind after the Hunnic conquest. He further believes that the terms "Vesi" and "Ostrogothi" were used by the peoples to boastfully describe themselves. On this understanding, the Greuthungi and Ostrogothi were more or less the same people. The nomenclature of Greuthungi and Tervingi fell out of use shortly after 400. In general, the terminology of a divided Gothic people disappeared gradually after they entered the Roman Empire. The term "Visigoth," however, was an invention of the sixth century. Cassiodorus, a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term Visigothi to match Ostrogothi, which terms he thought of as "western Goths" and "eastern Goths" respectively. The western-eastern division was a simplification and a literary device of sixth-century historians where political realities were more complex. Furthermore, Cassiodorus used the term "Goths" to refer only to the Ostrogoths, whom he served, and reserved the geographical term "Visigoths" for the Gallo-Hispanic Goths. This usage, however, was adopted by the Visigoths themselves in their communications with the Byzantine Empire and was in use in the seventh century. Other names for the Goths abounded. A "Germanic" Byzantine or Italian author referred to one of the two peoples as the "Valagothi," meaning "Roman ["walha"] Goths." In 484 the Ostrogoths had been called the Valameriaci (men of Valamir) because they followed Theodoric, a descendant of Valamir. This terminology survived in the Byzantine East as late as the reign of Athalaric, who was called "του Ουαλεμεριακου" (tou Oualemeriakou) by John Malalas. Etymology The Gothic name makes its first appearance sometime between 16 and 18 AD with earlier indications related to the Guti of Scandia or possibly attributable to the Gutones. Procopius wrote of the Gauts in Thule and Cassiodorus mentioned the Gauthigoths amid his list of Scandinavian peoples. Two distinct groups of Gothic peoples are first attested to in 291, the western Tervingi-Vesi and the eastern Greutungi-Ostrogothi. "Greuthungi" may mean "steppe dwellers" or "people of the pebbly coasts." The root "greut- is probably related to the Old English "greot," meaning "flat." This is supported by evidence that geographic descriptors were commonly used to distinguish people living north of the Black Sea both before and after Gothic settlement there and by the lack of evidence for an earlier date for the name pair Tervingi-Greuthungi than the late third century. However, that the name "Greuthungi" has pre-Pontic, possibly Scandinavian, origins has support. It may mean "rock people," (related to the Old Norse grjut huningi) to distinguish the Ostrogoths from the Geats (referred as Goths in Scandinavia) from Götaland (Gothland) in southern Sweden. The Roman historian Jordanes refers to an Evagreotingi (Greuthung island) in Scandza, as part of his description of Gothiscandza. It has also been suggested that Greuthungi may be related to certain place names in Poland, but this has met with little support. "Ostrogothi" means "Goths of (or glorified by) the rising sun." This has been interpreted as "gleaming Goths" or "east Goths". By the 4th century the Ostrogoths had developed a distinct language known as Gothic. Classified by linguists as an east Germanic language, Gothic eventually died out sometime in the Middle Ages as the Visigoths and Ostrogoths were absorbed by other European peoples. Language While none of the eastern Germanic languages are still spoken, Gothic is the only one with "continuous texts" remaining. Singularly the most important work amid the surviving Gothic texts is the translation of the Bible by the Visigothic bishop Ulfilas, comprising the earliest remnants of the Germanic languages known. Smatterings of the Gothic language can be found in Italian but its presence is minimal. A language related to Gothic was still spoken sporadically in Crimea as late as the 16th and 17th centuries (Crimean Gothic language). Much of the disappearance of the Gothic language is attributable to the Goths' cultural and linguistic absorption by other European peoples during the Middle Ages. History Foundation Main articles: Chernyakhov culture, Oium, and Gothic runic inscriptions Mentioned in several sources up to the third century AD when they apparently split into at least two groups, the Greuthungi in the east and Tervingi in the west, the two Gothic tribes shared many aspects, especially recognizing a patron deity the Romans named Mars. This so-called "split" or, more appropriately, resettlement of western tribes into the Roman province of Dacia was a natural result of population saturation of the area north of the Black Sea. The Goths in Dacia established a vast and powerful kingdom during the third and fourth centuries between the Danube and the Dniepr in what is now Romania, Moldova and western Ukraine. This was a multi-tribal state ruled by a Gothic elite but inhabited by many other interrelated but multi-tongue tribes including the Iranian-speaking Sarmatians, the Germanic-speaking Gepids, the Thracian-speaking Dacians, other minor Celtic and Thracian tribes and possibly early Slavs. Unfortunately the exact geographical dividing line between the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths is not known but in general terms, the Visigoths occupied Dacia, Moldavia and Walachia, whereas the Ostrogoths lived in the steppe regions beyond the Dniester River, ruling over a large confederation of Germanic and Scythian tribes, covering a vast territory in what is now Ukraine and areas of southern Russia. Jordanes calls the realm Oium, or Aujum. Hunnic invasions The rise of the Huns around 370 overwhelmed the Gothic kingdoms. Many of the Goths migrated into Roman territory in the Balkans, while others remained north of the Danube under Hunnic rule. Frequently the Ostrogoths fought alongside both Alans and Huns. It was the Ostrogoths who were first subdued by the Huns ..
  3. Title: The Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodoru
    Author: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Variae_of_Magnus_Aurelius_Cassiodoru.html?id=spRpAAAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Variae_of_Magnus_Aurelius_Cassiodoru.html?id=spRpAAAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description;
    Note: Information regarding the life and rule of King Theodoric, Roman Cassiodoru Senator worked for Theodoric
    Page: Prove A Life
  4. Title: Theodoric the Great, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV9-186Y : 26 July 2019), Theodoric the Great, 526; Burial, Ravenna, Provincia di Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Chiesa di Santa Maria Rotonda; citing record ID 8122616, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV9-186Y;
  5. Title: Wikiwand: Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
    Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Basilica_of_Sant%27Apollinare_Nuovo;
    Note: The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo is a basilica church in Ravenna, Italy. It was erected by the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great as his palace chapel during the first quarter of the 6th century (as attested to in the Liber Pontificalis). This Arian church was originally dedicated in 504 AD to "Christ the Redeemer".[1] It was reconsecrated in 561 AD, under the rule of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, under the new name "Sanctus Martinus in Coelo Aureo" ("Saint Martin in Golden Heaven"). Suppressing the Arian church, the church was dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, a foe of Arianism. According to legend, Pope Gregory the Great ordered that the mosaics in the church be blackened, as their golden glory distracted worshipers from their prayers. The basilica was renamed again in 856 AD when relics of Saint Apollinaris were transferred from the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe because of the threat posed by frequent raids of pirates from the Adriatic Sea. Its apse and atrium underwent modernization at various times, beginning in the 6th century with the destruction of mosaics whose themes were too overtly Arian or which expressed the king's glory, but the mosaics of the lateral walls, twenty-four columns with simplified Corinthian capitals, and an Ambo are preserved. On some columns, images of arms and hands can be seen, which are parts of figures once representing praying Goths and Theodoric's court, deleted in Byzantine times.[2] Renovations (and alterations) were done to the mosaics in the mid-19th century by Felice Kibel. The present apse is a reconstruction after being damaged during World War I. Architecture and decoration On the upper band of the left lateral wall are 13 small mosaics, depicting Jesus' miracles and parables; and on the right wall are 13 mosaics depicting the Passion and Resurrection. However, the flagellation and crucifixion are lacking. They describe the parts of the Bible that were read aloud in the church during Lent under the rule of Theodoric the Great. On the left, Jesus is always depicted as young, beardless man, dressed as a Roman Emperor. On the right, Jesus is depicted with a beard. For the Arians, this emphasized that Jesus grew older and became a "man of sorrows", as spoken of by the prophet Isaiah. These mosaics are separated by decorative mosaic panels depicting a shell-shaped niche with a tapestry, cross, and two doves. These mosaics were executed by at least two artists. The next row of mosaics are a scheme of haloed saints, prophets and evangelists, sixteen on each side. The figures are executed in a Hellenistic-Roman tradition and show a certain individuality of expression as compared to the other figures in the basilica. Each individual depicted holds a book, in either scroll or codex format, and, like many of the other figures throughout the basilica, each of their robes has a mark or symbol in it. These mosaics alternate with windows. They were executed in the time of Theodoric. The row below contains large mosaics in Byzantine style, lacking any individuality, having all identical expressions. These were executed about 50 years after the time of bishop Agnellus, when the church had already become an orthodox church. To the left is a procession of the 22 Virgins of the Byzantine period, led by the Three Magi, moving from the city of Classe towards the group of the Madonna and Child surrounded by four angels. (The Magi in this mosaic are named Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar; this is thought to be the earliest example of these three names being assigned to the Magi in Christian art.) To the right is a similar procession of 26 Martyrs, led by Saint Martin and including Saint Apollinaris, moving from the Palace of Theodoric towards a group representing Christ enthroned amid four angels. This lower band, containing a schematic representation of the Palace of Theoderic on the right wall and the port of Classe with three ships on the left wall, gives us a certain idea of the architecture in Ravenna during the time of Theodoric. In another part of the church there is a rough mosaic containing the portrait of the Emperor Justinian.
  6. Title: Ancient History Encyclopedia: King Theodoric the Great of the Ostrogoths
    Author: by Joshua J. Mark published on 09 October 2014
    Publication: Name: https://www.ancient.eu/Theodoric_the_Great/;
    Note: This article is lengthy but a good read
  7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Theodoric The Great The Amaling - death: 0526; Ravenna, Italy
    Author: Trager's The People's Chronology. A Year by Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to Present., James Trager, Editor, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. New York. 1979., Page number: Trager's page 52.
    Note: death: 0526; Ravenna, Italy Ruled:
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222973
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