Title previously used by Swedish and Danish monarchs
This article is about the medieval title. For the migration-era Goths, see King of the Visigoths and King of the Ostrogoths.
The title of King of the Goths (Swedish: Götes konung; Danish: Goternes konge; Latin: gothorum rex) was for many centuries borne by both the kings of Sweden and the kings of Denmark.
In the Swedish case, the reference is to Götaland (land of the Geats); in the Danish case, to the island of Gotland (land of the Gutes).
the fall ofthe Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. In his book Getica (c. 551), the historian Jordanes writes that theGoths originated...
played these Pannonian Goths off against the Thracian Goths to their south. However, instead the two groups united after the death ofthe Thracian leader Theoderic...
"Visigoths were theGothsofthe western country." According to Wolfram, Cassiodorus created this east–west understanding oftheGoths, which was a simplification...
romanized: Ludharīq; died 711) was the Visigothic king in Hispania between 710 and 711. He is well-known as "the last kingoftheGoths". He is actually an extremely...
throughout the 470s he campaigned against the Sarmatians and competed for influence among theGothsofthe Roman Balkans, gaining recognition as King in 471...
Goths with the emigration of a Gothic king named Berig with three ships from Scandza to Gothiscandza (25, 94), in the distant past. In the account of...
The Crimean Goths were Greuthungi-Gothic tribes or Western Germanic tribes who bore the name Gothi, a title applied to various Germanic tribes who remained...
mother Sifka (Sifeca). The etymology is heiðr, meaning "honour", and rekr, meaning "ruler, king". Heidrek was the son ofking Höfund and his wife Hervor...
reverse the conquest, but were eventually defeated. The last kingofthe Ostrogothic Kingdom was Teia. The Ostrogoths were the eastern branch oftheGoths. They...
Greuthungian Gothic king who before the Hunnic invasion evidently ruled a sizable portion of Oium, the part of Scythia inhabited by theGoths at the time. He is...
The name oftheGoths is one ofthe most discussed topics in Germanic philology. It is first recorded by Greco-Roman writers in the 3rd century AD, although...
denote theGoths. As described in its legends, Tyrfing was the keenest of all blades; every time it was drawn a light shone from it like a ray ofthe sun...
called Goths, were a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited Götaland ("land ofthe Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the Late Middle...
Berig is a legendary kingoftheGoths appearing in the Getica by Jordanes. According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza (Scandinavia)...
Heidrek. The fourth part deals with the saga of Heidrek the wise, thekingoftheGoths, and contains the riddles of Gestumblindi. If the killing of Hjalmar...
Geberic was a kingoftheGothsofthe fourth century AD, reported in the 6th by Jordanes in his history ofthe Amal dynasty-led Goths, the Getica. According...
archbishop of Constantinople, refers to the local ruler as a rex Gothiorum ("kingoftheGoths"). The Gothic Bosporan realm likely became a vassal ofthe Hunnic...
even killing the Alan ruler, Addax. To this end, Roman writer and clergyman Hydatius recorded how Wallia, kingoftheGoths "in the name of Rome...inflicted...
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