Ostrogotho
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Ostrogotho | |
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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
[edit]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 ofemperorZeno.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
[edit]- ^Dailey, E. T. (2015).Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite.Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 88.ISBN978-9-00429-089-1.
- ^Burns, Thomas (1991).A History of the Ostrogoths.Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 97.ISBN978-0-25320-600-8.
- ^Amory, Patrick (1997).People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489–554.Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 269.ISBN0-521-57151-0.
- ^Wood, Ian.The Merovingian Kingdoms 450 - 751,Routledge, 2014, p. 361ISBN9781317871163
- ^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.12ISBN9781107187153
Sources
[edit]- Helmut Castritius: Ostrogotho. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2. Auflage. Band 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003,ISBN3-11-017351-4,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.