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Ostrogoths

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MT’s Timeline
-         The Ostrogoths were originally the Goths until the 3rd century when they split into the Ostrogoths and Visigoths. Most of them were located in Scandinavia and Northern Poland.
-         The Ostrogoths created a large and powerful kingdom north of the Black Sea in the 3rd and 4th centuries.
-         In 370 the Huns took control of the Ostrogoths.
-         Theodoric went to recover Italy from Odacer in 488. Theodoric killed Odacer and the Ostrogoths had power over Italy.
-         The Ostrogoths and Visigoths united after Theodoric recovered Italy.
-         When Theodoric died in 526 the Ostrogoths and Visigoths split again.
-         In 535 Byzantian Emperor Justinian saw the Ostrogoths were weak now and had Belsarius attack the Ostrogoths. He took Sicily from the Ostrogoths, moved in to Italy in 536 and captured Naples and Rome, then he took over the Ostrogoth capital, Ravenna, in 540.
-         In 540 Justinian offered the Ostrogoths a place in Northwest Italy to make a kingdom if they gave them half their treasure.
-         In 541 the Ostrogoths elected Totila as their new leader.
-         In July, 552 Totila was killed.
-         In 553 the last Ostrogothic king, Teia, was killed. This pretty much ended the Ostrogoth’s power.
-         The Ostrogoth’s stayed in Italy for most of their existence.
AC’s Timeline
Theodoric the Great 498 – 526
 
Theodoric was a hostage as a young boy in Constantinople so his father, King Theodemer, would comply with the Byzantine Emperor Leo. He ruled over Italy when he overthrew a German usurper Odoacer. He tried to surrender, but Theodoric killed him.
King of Ostrogoths: 488-526
King of Italy: 493 – 526
Regent of Visigoths: 511 – 526
Theodoric was left to rule the Ostrogoths when he was 20, in 488. He was favoured by emperor Leo 1 and Zeno; he became the master of soldiers in 483. Theodoric learned there for many years and learned about roman war tactics.
            Theodoric overthrew and killed Odoacer in 493. He was a better ruler than Odoacer. He allied with the Franks by marrying Audofheda as well as the Visigoths, Vandals, and Burgundians.
            Theodoric was king over the Visigoths as well, regent infant King, his grandson Amalric in 505. He had two wives. The first one is unknown. He had two children; Arevagne and Theodegotho. His second wife was Audofleda and his child was Amalasuntha.
 
Althalaric:
 
Since Althalaric was only 10 years old, his mother, Amalasuntha, became the regent Queen. She attempted to educate him the Roman way, buy Gothic nobles pressured her to let them raise him.
            Althalaric ended up drinking heavily and indulged in lots of excess, which reined his constitution.
 
Theodahed
 
Theodehad was elderly at the time of succession. He arrived with Theodoric. He was the king from 534 – 536. He was killed by Witiges who became king after him. Theodahad was feeble – minded, vain, a craven monarch, uninterested in affairs of state, and too busy with his own goals.
 
Witiges
 
Witiges was king from 536 – 540/. He succeeded when Italy was in the middle of the Gothic war. He was husband to Amalasuntha’s only surviving child, Mathesuentha, designed to raise his claim to Kingship.
            Witiges murdered Theodehad after imprisonment and the death of his mother-in-law.
 
 
 
Ildibad
 
Ildibad was actually a Visigoth, nephew of Visigoth Spain. He was chosen to replace Witiges. He ruled only a year.
 
Eraric
 
Eraric didn’t rule for even a year. He was killed by a member of his own royal guard.
 
Totila

 

 

Totila was chosen to be king of the Ostrogoths after his uncle, Ildibad, died. Totila planned the death of his cousin, Eraric. Totila brought the Goths together. He also defeated a Byzantine attack on Verona in winter of 501 and separated the Goths again in spring of 542. Totila kept Italy safe from attacks.
 
Teia
 
Teia was the last Ostrogothic king in Italy. He fled to southern Italy, gathered supporters to make a last stand against Byzantine general, Narses. They were defeated. Teia was slain and his brother surrendered. Ostrogothic resistance ended and the tribe faded into obscurity.
 
         
MT's info
     
 

         Ostrogoths is said to mean eastern Goths or they were named after King Ostrogotha. They were originally part of one group called the Goths, but the group got too big and split up into the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths. The Ostrogths are one of the six Germanic Tribes to take control after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

            The history of the Ostrogoths is traced back to the Goths in the 3rd century. The Goths were living by the Black Sea at this time. Sometime in the middle of the 4th century the Huns conquered the Ostrogoths. After Attila of the Huns died the Hun Empire collapsed. Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, made a powerful city, but when Theodoric died the Ostrogoths lost their power once again.

 

Ac's Info

 

The Goths split because the group got too big, and they became two groups: the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths. After that, the Ostrogoths had a large kingdom until about 370 when they were over run by the Huns. They were captives until 453 with the death of Attila. From there, they migrated to Italy.

Once there, they wanted to become accepted and adopt the Roman culture. They helped protect the Romans, and became Arian Christians, which angered the Catholic Church.

The most important Ostrogoth leader was Theodoric the Great. He reigned from AD 493-526. The Ostrogoths were commissioned by the Emperor Zeno to attack a German usurper, Odoacer, who lived in Italy. Odoacer surrendered in 493, wanting half his kingdom, but was killed by Theodoric, who then became the sole ruler of Italy.

After his prosperous reign, the Ostrogothic kingdom existed until the middle of the sixth century, when it was overthrown by Emperor Justinian.

The Ostrogoth army had to fight and live in devastation for eighteen years before their army was destroyed. From that point, they disappeared from history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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