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Theodahad
Coin reading in Latin, "D[OMINUS] N[OSTER] THEODAHATUS REX / VICTORIA PRINCIPUM" ('Our lord Theodahad the King' / 'Victory of the Princes').[1][2]
King of the Ostrogoths
Reign
534 – c. December 536
Predecessor
Athalaric
Successor
Vitiges
Co-monarch
Amalasuintha (until 535)
Born
c. 480 Tauresium, Eastern Roman Empire
Died
December 536 (aged 56)
Spouse
Gudeliva
Issue
Theudigisel, Theodenantha[3]
Mother
Amalafrida
Coin of a bust of Theodahad.Another coin of Theodahad (534–536), minted in Rome. He is shown wearing a barbarian's moustache.
Theodahad, also known as Thiudahad (Latin: Flavius Theodahatus Rex, Theodahadus, Theodatus; c. 480 – December 536) was the co-monarch of the Ostrogothic Kingdom with his cousin Amalasuintha in 534 and sole ruler from April 535 through December 536. Compared to the reign of Theodoric the Great, his reign is generally considered a failure.[4]
^Hodgkin, Thomas (1896). Italy and Her Invaders. Clarendon Press. p. 651. ISBN 9788482770321.
^Lillington-Martin, C. (2016), a review of Theodahad: A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy by Massimiliano Vitiello (2014) for University of Toronto Quarterly, Issue 85:3 (2016), 470-472. https://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.85.3.470.
^Arnold H.M. Jones et al. (ed.), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 2, AD 395-527, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press 1980, p. 1067.
^Heather, Peter J. Empires, and barbarians: The fall of Rome and the birth of Europe. New York, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.
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