He was a son of king Alaric II and his first wife Theodegotho, daughter of Theodoric the Great.

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.

* 526 – King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna ; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.

* 490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.

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.

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

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.

Maximum extent of territories ruled by Theodoric the Great in 523.

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

The Goths were briefly reunited under one crown in the early sixth century under Theodoric the Great, who became regent of the Visigothic kingdom following the death of Alaric II at the Battle of Vouillé in 507.

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

An older Justinian ; mosaic in Basilica of Sant ' Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna ( possibly a modified portrait of Theodoric the Great | Theodoric ).

Mosaic depicting the palace of Theodoric the Great in his palace chapel of San Apollinare Nuovo.

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

After the collapse of the Hun empire after the Battle of Nedao ( 453 ), the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great first moved to Moesia ( c. 475 – 488 ) and later conquered the Italian Kingdom of the German warrior Odoacer.

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.

Cassiodorus, a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term " Visigothi " to match that of " Ostrogothi ", which terms he thought of as " western Goths " and " eastern Goths " respectively.

* 502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.

Before they reached the city, however, the remains were seized by some citizens of Ravenna and buried there in the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda, the burial place of Theodoric the Great.

Cassiodorus, then a secretary to Theodoric the Great, wrote a letter to a " Romulus " in 507 confirming a pension.

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

Among the miseries and dismal fates that Deor runs through are those of Theodoric the Great, Ermanaric of the Goths, the mythological smith Wayland, and Wayland's victim Beadohilde ( the daughter of Wayland's captor ; he raped her and she finds herself with child ).

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

* The Ostrogoth prince Theodoric, age 15, returns to Pannonia after he has lived as a child hostage at the court of emperor Leo I in Constantinople ( see 459 ).

* Allegedly the " Obergruppenführersaal " has similarities with the Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna

Although associated with historical characters from the 5th and 6th centuries, Theodoric and Odoacer, Hildebrand himself has not been identified as a historical personage.

She may have been the niece of King Theodoric and betrothed to Audoin through the mediation of Emperor Justinian.

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.

In 484 the Ostrogoths had been called the Valameriaci ( men of Valamir ) because they followed Theodoric, a descendant of Valamir.

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.

Various Ostrogothic military leaders took the kingship of Italy, but none were as successful as Theodoric had been.

The Balkans were ravaged by the Ostrogoths, after a disagreement between the Emperor and the young chief Theodoric the Great that had been raised at Leo's court in Constantinople, where he was steeped in Roman government and military tactics.

A relative of Theudis, sword-bearer of Theodoric the Great and king of the Visigoths, Totila was elected king by Ostrogothic nobles in the autumn of 541 after King Witigis had been carried off prisoner to Constantinople.

However, other sources depict these men in far more positive light: for example Cassiodorus describes Cyprianus and Opilio as " utterly scrupulous, just and loyal " and mentions they are brothers and grandsons of the consul Opilio ; Theodoric was feeling threatened by international events: the Acacian Schism had been resolved, and the Catholic Christians aristocrats of his kingdom were seeking to renew their ties with Constantinople ; the Catholic Hilderic became king of the Vandals and put his sister Amalafrida to death ; and Arian Christians in the East were being persecuted.

Under Theodoric Septimania had been safe from Frankish assault, but was raided by Childebert I twice ( 531 and 541 ).

In 455, Avitus, then magister militum ( the senior military officer of the Empire ) on a diplomatic mission to King Theodoric II of the Visigoths, was proclaimed the new Roman emperor in Toulouse by his Visigothic friends as the news arrived that the Vandals had sacked Rome and that Emperor Petronius Maximus had been murdered.

Their courses are by now highly artificial, the result of land and water management projects undertaken over many centuries, since they are recorded at least as early as the time of Theodoric the Great ( 6th century ) and have continued down to our own time with the construction of dams and works to regularize the seasonal waters of the Marroggia that had been subject to frequent torrential overflows with sudden and disastrous results.

Count Theodoric of Oldenburg is said to have been a rival claimant to the crowns of Sweden and Denmark during the reign of Eric VII / Eric XIII, whose succession was through Christopher I of Denmark, the younger brother of the murdered Eric IV, and through Magnus I of Sweden, younger brother of the deposed King Valdemar.

During the decisive battle before the walls he suffers a severe defeat, and only the heavy loss of Visigoths makes king Theodoric I decide to agree to a provisional restoration of the status quo.

Theodoric died in 526 and was succeeded by his young grandson Athalaric under the authority of his daughter Amalasunta, but by 535 both were dead and Theodoric's line was represented only by Amalasuntha's daughter Matasuntha.

Soon after becoming king, Hilderic had his predecessor's widow, Amalafrida, imprisoned ; he escaped war with her brother, the Gothic king Theodoric the Great, only by the latter's death in 526.

Aëtius turned then to the powerful local magnate Avitus for help, who was not only able to convince Theodoric to join with the Romans, but also a number of other wavering " barbarians " resident in Gaul.

Laurentius was only forced from his position when a diplomatic effort to convince king Theodoric to intervene succeeded.

It was the only surviving statue of a pre-Christian Roman Emperor because it was mistakenly thought, at the time, to be that of Constantine and thus held great accord — Charlemagne thus brought an equestrian statue from Ravenna, then believed to be that of Theodoric the Great, to Aachen, to match the statue of " Constantine " in Rome.

He is placed by some writers as early as the 4th century ; but it is plain from his own work that he did not write till the very end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th, as he refers not only to Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria, who died 444, but also to Petrus archiater, who could be identified with the physician of Theodoric the Great, whom he defines a contemporary.