Settling his people in lower Moesia, Theodoric came in conflict with Thracian Ostrogoths led by Theodoric Strabo, whom he eventually supplanted, uniting the peoples in 484.

Theodoric and the Goths were able to defeat Odoacer, and Italy came under Gothic rule.

This arrangement was scrupulously observed by Theodoric: the administration continued in its old form and was staffed exclusively by Romans, and legislation remained the preserve of the Emperor At the same time, the army remained the exclusive preserve of the Goths, who came under the authority of their own chiefs and courts.

Following the death of Clovis, Theodoric negotiated a peace with Clovis ' successors, securing Visigothic control of the southernmost portion of Gaul for the rest of the existence of their kingdom.

* 493 – Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great.

* 491 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theodoric the Great in Ad Pinetam.

Cassiodorus, minister to Theodoric, established a monastery at Vivarium in the heel of Italy with a library where he attempted to bring Greek learning to Latin readers and preserve texts both sacred and secular for future generations.

In 822, as a deeply religious man, Louis performed penance for causing Bernard's death, at his palace of Attigny near Vouziers in the Ardennes, before Pope Paschal I, and a council of ecclesiastics and nobles of the realm that had been convened for the reconciliation of Louis with his three younger half-brothers, Hugo whom he soon made abbot of St-Quentin, Drogo whom he soon made Bishop of Metz, and Theodoric.

* 456 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Spain with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc.

After a victorious three-year long war, Theodoric killed Odoacer with his own hands, settled his 100, 000 to 200, 000 people in Italy, and founded a Kingdom based in Ravenna.

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 ).

It was at this banquet that Theodoric, after making a toast, killed Odoacer with his own hands.

After learning of the Hun invasion, Flavius Aetius ( magister militum ) moves quickly from Italy into Gaul, and joined forces with the Visigoth king Theodoric I.

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), arrives in southern Gaul with an army ( 40, 000 men ) and defeats the Visigoths under king Theodoric I who besiege the strategic city of Arles.

* October 5 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of Avitus, invade Spain with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by their kings Chilperic I and Gondioc.

* Theodoric Strabo defeats the Bulgars in Thrace and moves with an army ( 13, 000 men ) towards Constantinople.

* February 25 – Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great.

* Theodoric the Great allies with the Franks and marries Audofleda, sister of Clovis I.

He establishes his residence at Narbonne and is supported by an alliance with the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great.

* September – Belisarius arrives at Sicily, which he uses as a staging area, with the permission of the Ostrogoth queen Amalasuntha, daughter of Theodoric the Great and regent of Italy.

* Zeno signs a peace treaty with Theodoric the Great.

* July 9 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theodoric the Great in Ad Pinetam.

* Theodoric Strabo signs a peace treaty with Leo I and according to the terms the Goths are paid with an annual tribute of 2, 000 pounds of gold.

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 ".

In 490, Alaric assisted his fellow Gothic king, Theodoric the Great, in his conquest of Italy by dispatching an army to raise Odoacer's siege of Pavia, where Theodoric had been trapped.

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.

Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), musters in Gaul an army of Burgundians, Celts, Ripuarians, Salian Franks and Visigoths under the command of the Visigoth king Theodoric I.

The majority of Odoacer's army, including his magister militum Tufa, surrenders to Theodoric.

* 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.

The imperial army defeated the Visigoths under king Theodoric II at the Battle of Arelate, forcing the Visigoths to abandon Septimania and withdraw west to Aquitania.

In 427, Aëtius arrived in southern Gaul with an army of roughly 40, 000 to find Arelate, an important city in Septimania near the mouth of the Rhone, under siege from the Visigoths led by their king Theodoric I. Aëtius defeated Theodoric, lifted the Siege of Arelate, and drove the Visigoths back to their holdings in Aquitania.

They then joined with the Ostrogothic army of Theodoric in its campaign to take over Italy in 488 – 493.

Zeno succeeded in bribing Armatus too, promising to confirm his rank of magister militum praesentalis for life and promoting his son ( also called Basiliscus ) to the rank of Caesar ; Armatus ' army did not intercept Zeno's troops marching on Constantinople, and the lack of Theodoric Strabo and his army decided the fate of Basiliscus, who fled with his family in the church of Hagia Sophia.

Jordanes ' list for Attila's allies includes the Gepids under their king Ardaric, as well as an Ostrogothic army led by the brothers Valamir, Theodemir ( the father of the later Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great ) and Widimer, scions of the Amali.

Theodoric continued to rule Italy with an army of Ostrogoths and a government that was mostly Italian.

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.

However, as per the arrangement between Theodoric, Zeno and the latter's successor Anastasius, the land and its people were regarded as still being part of the Empire, with Theodoric fulfilling merely the role of a viceroy and head of the army ( magister militum ).

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.

* 489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.

Ruled by Theodoric, the Ostrogoths were established in Italy, while the Vandal leader Gaiseric had sacked Rome and founded a kingdom in Africa.

The Mausoleum of Theodoric | Mausoleum of the Gothic monarch Theodoric the Great, in Ravenna, Italy.

After the Ostrogoths successfully revolted against the Huns at the Battle of Nedao in 454, their leader Theodoric the Great settled his people in Italy, founding a Kingdom which eventually gained control of the whole peninsula.

At the request of emperor Zeno, Theodoric the Great conquered all of Italy beginning in 488.

The Ostrogoths, under Theodoric the Great, established a kingdom in Italy in the late 5th and 6th centuries.

* 489 – Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theodoric the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona ( Northern Italy ).

Theodoric the Great (; ;, Theuderikhos ; ; ; 454 – August 30, 526 ) was king of the Ostrogoths ( 471 – 526 ), ruler of Italy ( 493 – 526 ), regent of the Visigoths ( 511 – 526 ), and a viceroy of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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.

On February 2, 493, Theodoric and Odoacer signed a treaty that assured both parties would rule over Italy.

* 493: Theodoric the Ostrogoth ousts Odoacer to become king of Italy.

* The Ostrogoths, led by king Theodoric the Great, invade Northern Italy.

* August 28 – Battle of Isonzo: Theodoric defeats the overwhelming forces of Odoacer at Soča ( near Aquileia ), forcing his way into Italy.

* Zeno orders Theodoric the Great to overthrow his rival Odoacer, who has established himself as king of Italy ( see 476 ).

* Emperor Anastasius I gives formal recognition to the Ostrogoth king Theodoric the great as his representative ( viceroy ) in Italy.