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Winguric or Wingurich (fl. 4th century AD), also known as Wingureiks, Wingourichos, also Jungeric was a Gothic ruler (reiks) under the Thervingian chieftain Athanaric who played a prominent role in the Gothic persecution of Christians. Around 375 he burned twenty-six Gothic Christians to death in the Crimea, who were later sanctified as martyrs by the Christian church.
Winguric is identified by name in the Menologion of Basil II[1] and the Synaxarion of Constantinople.[2] He was one of the unnamed "envoys" of Athanaric mentioned by Sozomen.[1]
- ^ a b Rubin 1981, p. 39 n45.
- ^ Strzelczyk 1980, p. 383.