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Theodoric "the Great" (King) of the Ostrogoths, or Theudericus Magnus, rex Italiae b. circa 454, d. 30 August 526 "He sent an embassy to Lodoin, king of the Franks, and asked for his daughter Audefleda in marriage. Lodoin freely and gladly gave her, and also his sons Celdebert and Heldebert and Thiudebert, believing that by this alliance a league would be formed and that they would be associated with the race of the Goths." Sapientia. Also called Theoderic l' Amale French. Theudericus Magnus, rex Italiae was born circa 454. He was the son of Thiudimir, pietas and Ereleuva , a concubine. He was was, at age seven, offered to the Romans as a hostage of peace in 461. "From the Goths the Romans received as a hostage of peace Theodoric, the young child of Thiudimer, whom we have mentioned above. He had now attained the age of seven years and was entering upon his eighth. While his father hesitated about giving him up, his uncle Valamir besought him to do it, hoping that peace between the Romans and the Goths might thus be assured. Therefore Theodoric was given as a hostage by the Goths and brought to the city of Constantinople to the Emperor Leo and, being a goodly child, deservedly gained the imperial favor." He was lived a comfortable life in the court of Emperor Zeno of Byzantium between 461 and 475. However, he had heard that his people, the Ostrogoth's were facing pressures from the Huns and other tribes, and he asked that Zeno give him permission to return to his people and lead them to new territory. "Although the Emperor was grieved that he should go, yet when he heard this he granted what Theodoric asked, for he was unwilling to cause him sorrow. He sent him forth enriched by great gifts and commended to his charge the Senate and the Roman People." He associated with N. N. of Moesia between 474 and 488; Concubine. He was moved the Ostrogoths westwards from Pannonia and resettled between 475 and 488 in Moesia. He was Consul in 484. He was continued the Ostrogoth's westward migrating and invades Italy, killing Odoacer, the first barbarian ruler, in 488. This continued migration was to stay ahead of the Huns who in 446 began conquering Pannonia. He married Audofledis des Francs Saliens, daughter of Childericus I, rex Francorum and Frankenkönigin Basena von Thüringen, circa 492; (His 2nd.). "Et quia Theudericus rex Italiae sororem Chlodovei in matrimonium habuit, ex qua parvulam filiam cum uxore reliquit, cum mater ei regis filium sociandum provideret, a servo, nomine Tranquillane , accipitur." He was assumed leadership of the Romans"It was in the third year after his entrance into Italy, as we have said, that Theodoric, by advice of the Emperor Zeno, laid aside the garb of a private citizen and the dress of his race and assumed a costume with a royal mantle, as he had now become the ruler over both Goths and Romans." In 493. King of the Ostrogoths in Italy, between 493 and 526. He was acknowledged as "King of Italy" by the Emperor Anastasius. In 497. King of Italy in 497. He associated with Theodora (?) before 505; Concubine. He died on 30 August 526 in Italy. Children of Theudericus Magnus, rex Italiae and N. N. of Moesia: Ostrogotho Areagni+ b. b 475, d. c 520 Thiudigotho+ b. c 476, d. 524 Child of Theudericus Magnus, rex Italiae and Audofledis des Francs Saliens: Amalasuintha+ b. a 494, d. 535 Child of Theudericus Magnus, rex Italiae and Theodora (?): Theodora+ b. c 505 http://en.wikipedia.org Another version: Theodoric, pronounced thee OD uh rihk (A.D. 455?-526) was an Ostrogoth (East Goth) king who governed Italy from A.D. 493 until his death. He won control of Italy from the barbarians who had taken it from the Romans 17 years earlier. Although a barbarian himself, Theodoric maintained a Roman form of government and Roman law in Italy. His rule was enlightened, peaceful, and just, and he won the praise of both barbarians and Romans. Theodoric let Romans hold high public office, and respected the senatorial class. He employed such prominent Romans as Boethius and Cassiodorus as his advisers and ministers of state. He believed in the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ. But he permitted his subjects to practice orthodox Christianity. Theodoric was born in Pannonia, which included parts of what are now Austria, Hungary, and Slovenia. He spent several years in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine (East Roman) Empire. When his father, Ostrogoth king Theodemir, died in 471, Theodoric became king. Theodoric alternately found himself an ally, then an enemy of the Byzantine emperors. He was a victim of a Byzantine plan to weaken barbarians by encouraging rivalries between them and then shifting support from one side to the other. In 488, Byzantine emperor Zeno commissioned Theodoric to attack Odoacer, the barbarian king of Italy. Theodoric invaded Italy in 489. Theodoric defeated Odoacer in 493, then murdered him. Germanic peoples remembered Theodoric in their legends as the heroic Dietrich of Bern. Encyclopædia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite.
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