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Austrigusa Königin der Lombarden


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Father: Elemund King of the Gepids, b. 465 in Sirmium, Pannonia, Roman Empire   d. omkring 535 in Pannonia, Hungary
Mother: Elemund of the Gepids, b. ABT 465 in Roman Empire   

Family 1: Wacho 8th King of the Lombards,    b. 490 in Pannonia, Roman Empire    d. 540 in Pannonia
  1. Waldrada Herzogin von Baiern, b. 535 in Lething, Lombardia, Italy     d. 26 JUN 572 in Vexin, Normandy, France
Sources:
  1. Title: The History Files - List of Barbarian Kingdoms
    Publication: Name: https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/;
    Note: https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/Citation Search Results Your search for Barbarian, Kingdoms found the following (of 2324 documents searched): Displaying documents 1-105, with best matches first: This is a list of Barbarians who at one time or another laid claim to a kingdom...... http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianVisigoths.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianHuns.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianOstrogoths.htm - 64K http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianAlans.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianBastarnae.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianGermanics.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianKutrigurs.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianScirii.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianScordisci.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianCatalauni.htm - 58KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianBuri.htm - 62KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianGepids.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianSemnones.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianSuevi.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianHelisii.htm - 59KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianHermunduri.htm - 63KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianRugii.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianVeneti.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianCelts.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianChauci.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianHeruli.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianMarcomanni.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianNervii.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianParisii.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianReudigni.htm - 64KB http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesEurope/BarbarianCelts02.htm - 56KB
  2. Title: Migration period between the Odra and Vistula - Gepids
    Publication: Name: http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/thesaurus/tribes-and-peoples/gepids;
    Note: Gepids Gepids (Latin Gipedae, Gepidae), a Germanic people closely related to the →Goths . As with many →Germanic Tribes , the mythical homeland of the Gepids was Scandinavia (vagina nationum). The historian →Jordanes reports in his Getica that the Gepids set off from their homeland together with the →Goths and sailing southward across the Baltic Sea on three ships reached the land of Gothiskandza. One of the ships landed a little later than the others, which was said to give the tribe its name, from gepanta, meaning “slow, sluggish”. Some archaeologists attribute to the Gepids a part of →Wielbark Culture archaeological finds recorded in the region east of the Lower Vistula River, especially in the Elbląg Upland. During the crisis of the Roman Empire of the 3rd century the Gepids, led by their king, Fastida, once again set off southward. During the 4th century their presence in the northern parts of Transylvania is confirmed in the archaeological record. At this time the Gepids defeated the →Burgundians and came into conflict with the →Ostrogoths . From the 4th until mid-5th century the Gepids were under the domination of the →Huns , then ruled by →Attila. During the great Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451) they sided with the →Huns and succumbed to the →Franks who fought on the side of the Roman commander Aëtius. After the death of Attila the Gepids moved into Transylvania where under the leadership of Ardaric they defeated the Huns in the Battle of Nedao (454 or 455). After this victory they established their kingdom in the territory east of the Tisza River, today’s eastern Hungary and western Romania. At this time they adopted a death rite characteristic for the Merovingian age, e.g., burial in row-grave cemeteries. Finds from the territory settled by the Gepids include several deposits containing sumptuous dress accessories made of gold. One of their better known grave sites is the “princely” burial ground at Apahida in Romania with spectacular finds of e.g. gold jewellery in cloisonné technique decorated with almandines (Fig. 1). In 488 the Gepids fought against the →Ostrogoths led by Theoderic, who with the permission from the Eastern Roman Emperor chose to attack Italy wishing to depose its ruler, Odoacer. The Gepid king Traustila was slain in these wars. In Pannonia the Gepids warred long against the →Langobards who had moved into the area in 526 settling in Pannonia west of the Danube. A major war between the Gepids and Langobards broke out in 549. Working behind the scenes was the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I who presumably wished to eliminate the Gepids as political players in the region to the north of his empire’s border. Justinian I officially gave his support to the Gepids. but in secret assisted the →Langobards. In 567 the latter allied themselves with nomad →Avars against the Gepids and led by their king Alboin annihilated them, even without assistance from the Avars to whom they nevertheless left the Gepid territory. After the →Langobards departed for Italy in 568 the Avars also moved into their territory to the west of the Danube. Most of the Gepids had joined the Langobards and migrated with them to Italy, the rest found themselves under Avar rule. By the late 6th century no traces of the tribe are to be found in the archaeological record.
  3. Title: Academia.edu -Gepidi very helpful website!
    Publication: Name: https://www.academia.edu/20402734/The_Sirmium_group_about_the_so-called_Gepids_siliquae_With_a_specific_catalogue;
    Note: The “Sirmium group”: about the so-called Gepids siliquae With a specific catalogue
  4. Title: Wikipedia - the Gepids
    Author: Bóna, István (2001). "From Dacia to Transylvania: The Period of the Great Migrations (271–895); The Kingdom of the Gepids; The Gepids during and after the Hun Period". In Köpeczi, Béla; Barta, Gábor; Makkai, László; Mócsy, András; Szász, Zoltán (eds.). History of Transylvania. Hungarian Research Institute of Canada (Distributed by Columbia University Press). ISBN 0-88033-479-7. Bibliography and notes are extensive....
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gepids;
    Note: After the death of Attila, the Gepids under their leader Ardaric, led an alliance of other peoples who had been in the empire, and defeated the sons of Attila and their remaining allies at the Battle of Nedao in 454. The Gepids and their allies subsequently founded kingdoms on the Middle Danube, bordering on the Roman Empire. The Gepid Kingdom was one of the most important and long-lasting of these, centered on Sirmium, and sometimes referred to as Gepidia.[2] It covered a large part of the former Roman province of Dacia, north of the Danube, and compared to other Middle Danubian kingdoms it remained relatively un-involved with Rome. The Gepids were defeated by the Lombards and Avars a century later in 567, Constantinople giving no support to the Gepids. Some Gepids joined the Lombards in their subsequent conquest of Italy, some moved into Roman territory, and other Gepids still lived in the area of the old kingdom after it was conquered by the Avars Kingdom of the Gepids After the Battle of Nedao, the Hunnic Empire disintegrated and the Gepids became the dominant power in the eastern regions of the Carpathian Basin.[40][42] According to Jordanes, the Gepids "by their own might won for themselves the territory of the Huns and ruled as victors over the extent of all Dacia, demanding of the Roman Empire nothing more than peace and an annual gift"[51] after their victory.[40][52] Emperor Marcian confirmed their status as the allies of the empire and granted them an annual subsidy of 100 pounds of gold.[40][42] The late-5th-century treasures excavated at Apahida and Someșeni show that the Gepid rulers accumulated great wealth in the second half of the century.[48] The Gepids joined a coalition formed by the Suebi, Scirii, Sarmatians and other peoples formed against the Ostrogoths who had settled in Pannonia.[53][54] However, the Ostrogoths routed the united forces of their enemies in the Battle of Bolia in 469.[53] After the Ostrogoths left Pannonia in 473, the Gepids captured Sirmium (now Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia), a strategically important town on the road between Italy and Constantinople.[52] In 489, Thraustila, King of the Gepids, tried to hinder the Ostrogoths from crossing the river Vuka during Theoderic the Great's campaign against Italy, but the Ostrogoths routed Thraustila's army.[52][55] The Gepids also lost Sirmium to the Ostrogoths, according to Walter Pohl.[56] In short, according to Walter Goffart, Thraustila's son, Thrasaric, "regained control of Sirmium but possibly under Ostrogothic underlordship".[57] Theoderic the Great dispatched one comes Pitzia to launch a campaign against the Gepids who either tried to capture Sirmium or wanted to get rid of Theoderic's suzerainty in 504.[56][57][58] Comes Pitzia expelled the Gepid troops from Sirmium without much resistance.[53][59] In an attempt to take advantage of the death of Theoderic the Great in 526, the Gepids invaded the region of Sirmium in 528 or 530, but Vitiges defeated them.[57][53] The Gepids reached the zenith of their power after 537, settling in the rich area around Singidunum (today's Belgrade). For a short time, the city of Sirmium (present-day Sremska Mitrovica) was the center of the Gepid State and the king Cunimund minted golden coins in it.[60] In 546 the Byzantine Empire allied themselves with the Lombards, and in 552 the Gepids suffered a disastrous defeat from Alboin, king of the Lombards, in the Battle of Asfeld, after which Alboin had a drinking cup made from the skull of Cunimund.[61] List of Gepid kings[edit] Fastida, fl. c. 250 Ardaric, fl. c. 454 Giesmus, fl. early 480s Thraustila, fl. 488 Thrasaric, fl. 505 Mundus, d. 536[62] Elemund, ?–548 Thurisind, 548–c.560 Cunimund, c.560–567
  5. Title: Wikipedia - Elemund
    Author: Amory, Patrick. People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489 – 554. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-52635-3. Boná, István. "From Dacia to Erdöelve: Transylvania in the period of the great migrations (271-896)", History of Transylvania. Béla Köpeczi (ed.). v. 1, Highland Lakes: Atlantic Research and Publications, 2001, pp. 137 – 331, ISBN 0-88033-479-7. (in French) Boná, István. A l'aube du Moyen Age: Gépides et Lombards dans le bassin des Carpates. Budapest: Corvina Press, 1974 [1976], ISBN 963-13-4494-0. Martindale, John R. (ed.), Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire - Volume III: A.D. 527 – 641, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-521-20160-5. Wolfram, Herwig. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990 [1997], ISBN 0-520-24490-7.
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemund;
    Note: Elemund (Latin: Elemundus, died 548) was king of the Gepids, an east Germanic people, during the first half of the 6th century. He may have been the son of Gunderit, himself son of Ardaric ascended by overthrowing a rival Ardariking branch. Based on archaeological evidence, István Boná believes that in the 520s or 530s Elemund must have consolidated his power in Transylvania by submitting or removing minor Gepid rulers.[1] Elemund had a son and daughter, (Ustrigotho) and Austrigusa, respectively; the latter was given in marriage to Wacho, the king of the Lombards, in 512. The reasons behind the marriage were multiple: on one side it protected the two kings from the threat represented by the Ostrogothic Kingdom, while on the other it reduced the danger represented to the Lombard king by Ildechis, a pretender to the Lombard throne. Wacho was eventually to remarry after Austrigusa's death, but this did not compromise the good relations existing between Lombards and Gepids.[2][3] Elemund died of illness in 548 and was succeeded by Thurisind, while the legitimate heir was forced into exile.[4][5] Ustrigotho found hospitality among the Lombards, but was killed in 552 by his host, King Audoin, as part of a plan to ease relations between Gepids and Lombards.[6]
  6. Title: "The Wars of Justinian," by Prokopios
    Author: Hackett Publishing, 3 set 2014 - 680 pages....
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.it/books?id=eK9aBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA565&dq=austrigusa+gepids+elemund&hl=it&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO-oWAxJjkAhXD16QKHTcvBkcQ6AEINTAB#v=onepage&q=Albsuintha&f=false;
    Note: The Wars of Justinian di Prokopios p.565 A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography--for the 21st-century reader. "At last . . . the translation that we have needed for so long: a fresh, lively, readable, and faithful rendering of Prokopios' Wars, which in a single volume will make this fundamental work of late ancient history-writing accessible to a whole new generation of students." --Jonathan Conant, Brown University
  7. Title: Wikipedia, Sirmium, Pannonia Seconda
    Author: Curta, Florin (2001). "Limes and Cross: the Religious Dimension of the Sixth-century Danube Frontier of the Early Byzantine Empire". Старинар. 51: 45–70. Curta, Florin (2001). The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500–700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Curta, Florin (2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Daim, Falko (2019). "The Longobards in Pannonia". Prima e dopo Alboino: sulle tracce dei Longobardi. Napoli: Guida. pp. 221–241. Given, John (2014). The Fragmentary History of Priscus. Merchantville, New Jersey: Evolution Publishing. Gračanin, Hrvoje (2006). "The Huns and South Pannonia". Byzantinoslavica. 64: 29–76. Janković, Đorđe (2004). "The Slavs in the 6th Century North Illyricum". Гласник Српског археолошког друштва. 20: 39–61.
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonia_Secunda;
    Note: Pannonia Secunda was one of the provinces of the Roman Empire. It was formed in the year 296, during the reign of emperor Diocletian. The capital of the province was Sirmium (today Sremska Mitrovica). Pannonia Secunda included parts of present-day Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] History Pannonia Secunda in the 4th century Before the creation of this province, its territory was part of the province of Pannonia Inferior. In the year 296, Pannonia Inferior was divided into two provinces - Pannonia Secunda in the south and Pannonia Valeria in the north. The border between the two newly established provinces was the River Drava. The capital of Pannonia Secunda, Sirmium, was also one of the four capitals of the Roman Empire; several Roman emperors were born in or near this city. In the year 314, there was a battle between two pretenders to the imperial throne, Constantine the Great and Licinius. The battle occurred in Pannonia Secunda, near the town of Cibalae. Constantine had an army of 20,000 men, while Licinius had 35,000. The battle lasted for the whole day and Constantine was victorious. During the 5th century, the province was raided several times, by migrating peoples, including Huns and Goths.[2] During the 6th century, the territory was contested between the Ostrogoths, Gepids, Langobards, Avars, and the Byzantine Empire.[3]
  8. Title: The History Files - the Gepids
    Author: (Information by Peter Kessler, with additional information by Edward Dawson, from Germania, Tacitus, from Roman Soldier versus Germanic Warrior: 1st Century AD, Lindsay Powell, from The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, David W Anthony, and from External Links: Espadana-Walker.com (dead link), and A Theory of Civilisation, Philip Atkinson, and Geography, Strabo (H C Hamilton & W Falconer, London, 1903, Perseus Online Edition).)
    Publication: Name: https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianGepids.htm;
    Note: The Germanic tribes seem to have originated in a homeland in southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, with the Jutland area of northern Denmark, along with a very narrow strip of Baltic coastline). They had been settled here for over two thousand years following the Indo-European migrations. The Germanic ethnic group began as a division of the western edge of late proto-Indo-European dialects around 3300 BC, splitting away from a general westwards migration to head towards the southern coastline of the Baltic Sea. By the time the Germanic tribes were becoming key players in the politics of Western Europe in the last two centuries BC, the previously dominant Celts were on the verge of being conquered and dominated by Rome. They had already been pushed out of northern and Central Europe by a mass of Germanic tribes which were steadily carving out a new homeland. One of the earlier groups to settle outside Scandinavia, the East Germanic Gepids found a homeland on the southern Baltic Coast, in modern Poland. During the first century AD they were neighboured to the north-east by elements of the Venedi and Aesti, to the east by the greater Venedi, to the south by the Scirii and the Goths, and to the west, across the Vistula, by the Rugii. Sometimes known as the Gepidae to Roman writers, this tribe never came into particularly close contact with the empire. For about two hundred years from the first century AD, they were located on the eastern bank of the Vistula, with the River Bug forming a loose southern border. It seems likely that they migrated there alongside the Goths, to whom they were closely related. They followed the Goths on their slow migration south-eastwards, ending up in the Pannonian basin where they formed a short-lived tribal kingdom known as Gepidia. The capital of this kingdom was Sirmium (modern Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia), but Gepidia was destroyed by the Langobards in 567, effectively ending the existence of the Gepids as a recognisable people. ***** fl 504/505 Trasericus 504 Gepid power suffers a decisive blow when the Ostrogoths in Italy cut off the expansion of the kingdom into the Danubian plains. This forces the Gepids to restrict themselves to the Pannonian basin. Around the same time the Gepid nobility converts to Arian Christianity, while the majority of the people remain pagan. c.549 - c.560 ****** Thurisind Seized the throne and faced the Langobard threat. Turismod Son and heir. Killed in battle in 551/552. 550s Jordanes, a bureaucrat in the Eastern Roman capital of Constantinople, writes of the barbarian tribes in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, mentioning a wide number of them, including the Gepidae (the Gepids of the 270s) who dwell In the land of Scythia to the west. While Scythia is a broad term that covers territory between the modern countries of Ukraine and the borders of Tibet, the reference can be taken to mean that the Gepids have essentially remained where they had been at the end of the fifth century, occupying the Pannonian basin.
  9. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#OstrogothaMWacho;
    Note: OSTROGOTHA [Austreusa/Austrigosa] . The Origo Gentis Langobardorum names "Austrigusa filiam Gippidorum" as King Wacho's second wife[68]. The Historia Langobardorum names "Austreusa filia Gibedorum" as Wacho's second wife[69]. m as his second wife, WACHO King of the Lombards, son of ZUCHILO [Unichis] of the Lombards (-540).
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