King of the Ostrogoths (r. 471โ526) & Visigoths (r. 511โ526); King of Italy (r. 493โ526)
Theodoric
Medallion (or triple solidus) featuring Theodoric, c. AD 491โ501[a]
King of the Ostrogoths
Reign
471 โ 30 August 526
Predecessor
Theodemir
Successor
Athalaric
King of Italy
Reign
15 March 493 โ 30 August 526
Predecessor
Odoacer
Successor
Athalaric
King of the Visigoths
Reign
511 โ 30 August 526
Predecessor
Gesalec
Successor
Amalaric
Born
454 near Carnuntum (now in Lower Austria), Western Roman Empire
Died
30 August 526(526-08-30) (aged 71โ72) Ravenna, Ostrogothic Kingdom
Spouse
Audofleda
Issue
Amalasuintha Theodegotha Ostrogotho
Dynasty
Amali
Father
Theodemir
Mother
Ereleuva
Religion
Arianism
Theodoric (or Theoderic) the Great (454 โ 30 August 526), also called Theodoric the Amal (Gothic: *๐ธ๐น๐ฟ๐ณ๐ฐ๐๐ด๐น๐บ๐, romanized: *รiudareiks; Greek: ฮฮตฯ ฮดฮญฯฮนฯฮฟฯ, romanized: Theuderikhos; Latin: Theoderฤซcus), was king of the Ostrogoths (475โ526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526,[3] regent of the Visigoths (511โ526), and a patrician of the Eastern Roman Empire. As ruler of the combined Gothic realms, Theodoric controlled an empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Adriatic Sea. Though Theodoric himself only used the title 'king' (rex), some scholars characterize him as a Western Roman Emperor in all but name,[b] since he ruled a large part of the former Western Roman Empire described as a Res Publica, had received the former Western imperial regalia from Constantinople in 497 which he used, was referred to by the imperial title princeps by the Italian aristocracy and exercised imperial powers recognized in the East, such as naming consuls.
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As a young child of an Ostrogothic nobleman, Theodoric was taken as a hostage to Constantinople, where he spent his formative years and received an East Roman education (paideia). Theodoric returned to Pannonia around 470, and throughout the 470s he campaigned against the Sarmatians and competed for influence among the Goths of the Roman Balkans, gaining recognition as King in 471. The emperor Zeno made him a commander of the Eastern Roman forces in 483 and consul in 484. Nevertheless, Theodoric remained in constant hostilities with the emperor and frequently raided East Roman lands.
At the behest of Zeno, in 489 Theodoric attacked Odoacer, the king of Italy, emerging victorious in 493. As the new ruler of Italy, he upheld a Roman legal administration and scholarly culture while promoting a major building program across Italy.[4] In 505 he expanded into the Balkans, and by 511 he had brought the Visigothic Kingdom of Spain under his direct control and established hegemony over the Burgundian and Vandal kingdoms. Theodoric died in 526 and was buried in a grand mausoleum in Ravenna. He lived on as the figure Dietrich von Bern in Germanic heroic legend.
^Silber 1970, p. 42.
^Steffens 1903, p. 3.
^Frassetto 2003, p. 335.
^Johnson 1988, pp. 74, 95.
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