Ostrogotho

Ostrogotho
Ostrogotho
Queen consort of the Burgundians
Born	Ariadne; 480
Died	before 516
Spouse	Sigismund of Burgundy
Issue	Sigeric; Suavegotha
House	Amali
Father	Theodoric the Great

Ostrogotho(480 - before 516) was the daughter of theOstrogothickingTheodoric the Great,^[1]and the wife of theBurgundiankingSigismund.^[2]

Life

Her mother is not mentioned by name. According toJordanes,her mother was a concubine. According toAnonymus Valesianus,her mother was Theodoric's wife. Jordanes also mentions a sister Theudigotho. According to both, Ostrogotho was born while Theodoric was staying inMoesia(before 489).

Ostrogotho was probably baptized inConstantinoplewith the nameAriadneorAriagne,named afterAriadne,the wife ofemperor Zeno.In order to distinguish her from the empress, she was nicknamedOstrogotho,and this nickname eventually superimposed her actual name.

Ostrogotho and her sister accompanied Theodoric on his campaign from Constantinople toItaly.During the fight againstOdoacer,she was left by her father inTicinum(Pavia). In 494, after Theodoric hadconsolidated his rule in Italy,he arranged the marriage of Ostrogotho with Sigismund, son of the Burgundian kingGundobad.^[3]From this marriage came a son Sigeric, and a daughter,Suavegotha.Suavegotha was later married to theFrankishkingTheuderic I.^[4]His second wife, whom he had married after the death of Ostrogotho, had convinced him that Sigeric was plotting to overthrow him. Sigeric was eventually murdered on the order of Sigismund.^[5]

References

^Dailey, E. T. (2015).Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite.Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 88.ISBN 978-9-00429-089-1.
^Burns, Thomas (1991).A History of the Ostrogoths.Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 97.ISBN 978-0-25320-600-8.
^Amory, Patrick (1997).People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489–554.Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 269.ISBN 0-521-57151-0.
^Wood, Ian.The Merovingian Kingdoms 450 - 751,Routledge, 2014, p. 361ISBN 9781317871163
^Fox, Yaniv. "Anxiously Looking East",East and West in the Early Middle Ages: The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective,(Stefan Esders et al. eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 35, n.12ISBN 9781107187153

Sources

Helmut Castritius: Ostrogotho. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2. Auflage. Band 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003,ISBN 3-11-017351-4,S. 350.
Felix Dahn: Ostrogotho. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, S. 528.
Maria Assunta Nagl: Ostrogotho. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band XVIII,2, Stuttgart 1942, Sp. 1687 f.

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[1] Dailey, E. T. (2015).Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite.Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 88.ISBN 978-9-00429-089-1.

[2] Burns, Thomas (1991).A History of the Ostrogoths.Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 97.ISBN 978-0-25320-600-8.

[3] Amory, Patrick (1997).People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489–554.Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 269.ISBN 0-521-57151-0.

[4] Wood, Ian.The Merovingian Kingdoms 450 - 751,Routledge, 2014, p. 361ISBN 9781317871163

[5] Fox, Yaniv. "Anxiously Looking East",East and West in the Early Middle Ages: The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective,(Stefan Esders et al. eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 35, n.12ISBN 9781107187153

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