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King Theodoric of the Ostrogoths sent an army, led by his sword-bearer Theudis, against Gesalec, ostensibly on behalf of Amalaric ; Gesalec fled to Africa, and the Ostrogoths drove back the Franks and their Burgundian allies, regaining possession of " the south of Novempopulana, Rodez, probably even Albi, and even Toulose ".
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The Lombards under King Wacho had migrated towards the east into Pannonia, taking advantage of the difficulties facing the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy following the death of its founder, Theodoric in 526.
She may have been the niece of King Theodoric and betrothed to Audoin through the mediation of Emperor Justinian.
* 526 – King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna ; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.
Consolation of Philosophy was written during a one-year imprisonment Boethius served while awaiting trial – and eventual horrific execution – for the crime of treason under the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great.
Bolstered by Frankish and Visigothic troops ( under King Theodoric ), Aetius ' own Roman army met the Huns at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains also known as the Battle of Châlons.
A son of King Theodemir, an Amali nobleman, Theodoric was born in Pannonia, after his people had defeated the Huns at the Battle of Nedao.
In 488, Emperor Zeno ordered Theodoric to overthrow the German Foederati Odoacer, who had likewise been made patrician and even King of Italy, but had since betrayed Zeno, supporting the rebellious Leontius.
The son of the King Theodemir and Ereleuva, Theodoric went to Constantinople as a young boy, as a hostage to secure the Ostrogoths ' compliance with a treaty Theodemir had concluded with the Byzantine Emperor Leo ( ruled 457 – 474 ).
* King Theodoric I besiege the city of Narbonne, the Visigoths obtain access to the Mediterranean Sea and the roads to the Pyrenees.
King Theodemir sends his son Theodoric, age 5, as a child hostage to Constantinople.
* King Theodoric II is killed by his younger brother Euric, who succeeds him on the throne.
* King Theodoric the Great retreats to Ticinum ( modern Pavia ), where he constructs a fortified camp, which is blockaded.
* King Alaric II supports Theodoric, in his conquest of Italy by dispatching an Visigoth army to raise Odoacer's siege of Pavia.
* King Theodoric the Great sends an Ostrogoth army, led by his sword-bearer Theudis, and drives the Franks out of Provence and recovers Septimania ( Languedoc ) from the Visigoths.
* King Theodoric the Great raises the Frankish siege at Arles, the city is heroically defended by its inhabitants assisted by the Ostrogothic general Theudis.
* King Theodoric the Great assumes the regency over Amalaric, his grandson and future king of the Visigothic Kingdom ( approximate date ).
* King Theodoric the Great sends pope John I to Constantinople to negotiate a withdrawal of Byzantine emperor Justin's edict against Arian Christianity.
* August 30 – King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna ; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.
* King Theodoric the Great conquers Rimini and brings his Ostrogoth fleet to blockade the harbours six miles from the capital of Ravenna.
* King Theodoric the Great starts a 4-year campaign against the Byzantine Empire.
* King Theodoric the Great defeats the Gepids and are driven out of their homeland ( Pannonia ).
* King Theodoric the Great grants the citizens on the Mount Vesuvius exemption from taxes after a severe erupting in southeastern Italy.
Odoacer ruled as King of Italy for 13 years, but in 489 the Eastern Emperor Zeno sent the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great to re-take the Italian peninsula.
King and Ostrogoths
She was married in 515 to Eutharic ( c. 480 – 522 ), an Ostrogoth noble of the old Amal line, who had previously been living in Visigothic Hispania, son of Widerich ( born c. 450 ), grandson of Berismund ( born c. 410 ), and great-grandson of Thorismund ( died after 400 ), King of the Ostrogoths c. 400.
King Chlothar I ( 558 – 561 ) ruled the greater part of what is now Germany and made expeditions into Saxony, while the Southeast of modern Germany was still under influence of the Ostrogoths.
* 550 – Gothic War ( 535 – 554 ): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
King Theodahad of the Ostrogoths begged Agapetus to proceed on an embassy to Constantinople and use his personal influence to appease Emperor Justinian I following the death of Amalasuntha.
The Ostrogoths needed a place to live, and Zeno was having serious problems with Odoacer, the King of Italy who had come to power in 476.
* King Khosrau I jealous of Justinian's victories in the West, receives an embassy from the Ostrogoths at Ctesiphon.
* January 16 – Gothic War ( 535 – 552 ): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
* July 1 – Totila, King of the Ostrogoths
At the same time, the Ostrogoths led by King Widimir began marching to Italy.
Despite his protests, he was sent by the Arian King Theodoric the Great of the Ostrogoths to Constantinople to secure a moderation of Emperor Justin's decree of 523 against the Arians.
* Theodoric the Great, ( 454 – 526 ), King of Ostrogoths
Totila, original name Baduila ( died July 1, 552 ) was the penultimate King of the Ostrogoths, reigning from 541 to 552 AD.
Athalaric ( 516 – 2 October 534 ) was the King of the Ostrogoths in Italy.
However, he could not recover the territory of the Aude, which remained in the hands of the Visigoths, thanks to the help of the King of the Ostrogoths whose troops defeated Clovis's son in 508.
Theodahad ( born c. 480 in Tauresium – died 536 ) was the King of the Ostrogoths from 534 to 536 and a nephew of Theodoric the Great through his sister Amalafrida.
Witiges or Vitiges ( died 540 ) was King of the Ostrogoths in Italy from 536 to 540.
During the Middle Ages Ascoli was ravaged by the Ostrogoths and then by the Lombards of King Faroald ( 578 ).
In 551, King Totila of the Ostrogoths, in response to reports of an east Roman military build-up in the eastern side of the Adriatic, sent a 300-strong fleet to Kerkyra.
Radegund was then forced to marry King Clotaire, while Hermanfrid's wife Amalaberga fled to the Ostrogoths with her children Amalafrid and Rodelinda.
Of King Sivald Saxo tells nothing save that Sivald was son of Broder, son of King Jarmerik ( who is actually Ermanaric King of the Ostrogoths changed by Saxo one of his sources into a king of Denmark ).
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