Amalaberga
Amalaberga († after 540) was the daughter of Amalafrida , sister of the ruler of the Ostrogoths, Theodoric the Great . Amalafrida was married twice; Amalaberga probably came from her mother's first marriage.
At the behest of her uncle Theoderich, Amalaberga was married to the Thuringian king Herminafried between 506 and 510 in order to create an Eastern Gothic alliance against the expanding Franks . The pact between the Thuringians and the Ostrogoths lasted until after Theodoric's death.
Amalaberga was probably an Arian Christian. Her husband Herminafried gave birth to a son, Amalafrid , and a daughter of unknown name. According to the unbelievable account of Gregory of Tours , Amalaberga incited her husband to murder one of his two brothers by only half setting the table and saying that whoever ruled only half of his empire deserved half of his own Tables stay empty.
After the Thuringian empire had perished in the fight against Theuderich I and Chlothar I between 531 and 534 and Herminafried was murdered in 534, Amalaberga and her children first fled to Ravenna to her brother, the Ostrogoth king Theodahad . He was deposed in 536 and killed on the orders of his successor Witiges . After Witiges' defeat against Belisarius (540), Amalaberga and her children had to experience their exile in Constantinople .
The year of Amalaberga's death is not known. Her daughter made Emperor Justinian the wife of the Longobard King Audoin .
literature
- Martina Hartmann , The Queen in the Early Middle Ages . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-018473-2 , p. 8f .; 14f .; 29; 32, 35; 37; 40f .; 140; 151; 162f .; 177; 180; 186.
- Hans Patze : Amalaberga . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 504.
- Hans Patze , Walter Schlesinger (Hrsg.): History of Thuringia. Volume 1. Cologne a. a. 1978, p. 322 f.
- Felix Dahn : Amalaberga . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 761.
- Ludo Moritz Hartmann : Amalaberga . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1714.
Remarks
- ^ Gregory of Tours , Historiae 3, 4.
- ↑ Martina Hartmann, The Queen in the Early Middle Ages , p. 8.
- ↑ Jordanes , Getica 58, 299; Prokop , De bello Gothico 1, 12; Cassiodorus , Variae 4, 1.
- ↑ a b Prokop, De bello Gothico 4, 25.
- ↑ Gregory of Tours, Historiae 3, 4; on this Martina Hartmann, The Queen in the Early Middle Ages , p. 14.
- ^ Prokop, De bello Gothico 1, 13.
- ↑ Martina Hartmann, The Queen in the Early Middle Ages , p. 14f.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amalaberga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of the Vandal King Thrasamund and Amalfridas |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century or 6th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 540 |