Amaler

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The Amals were a Gothic ruling family who held the kingship of the Ostrogoths and are said to have ruled the entire Gothic kingdom under Ermanarich in the 4th century (cf. Ammianus Marcellinus , 31,3,1). Ermanarich is also the first historically guaranteed Amaler. The reconstruction of the Jordanes ( Getica 79, probably based on Cassiodorus ) of an ancient family tree, however, is not credible and very problematic. According to Herwig Wolfram , Cassiodorus constructed this genealogy in order to enhance the Gothic king Athalaric (516-534) through the fiction of a supposedly divine descent. The number of generations before this served the same purpose, namely sixteen, which corresponds exactly to the number of the ancestors of Romulus and Remus except for Aeneas , see list of kings of Alba Longa . The etymology and meaning of the name are unknown.

The most famous of all Amalers was Theodoric the Great , who in 493 created an Ostrogothic empire in Italy (which only existed for a few decades) . The line died out in 536 with the death of Theodahad . In the Nibelungenlied , the Heldenbuch and other old German poems they are called Amelungen, ie descendants of Amala.

Tribe list

Jordanes' blank figures are in italics set

From Gapt to Achiulf

  1. Gapt
    1. Halmal
      1. Augis
        1. Amala
          1. Isarna
            1. Ostrogotha , king around 250, led the attack on Philippopolis around 249 , where Emperor Decius died
              1. Hunvil
                1. Athal
                  1. Achiulf - offspring see below
                  2. Odulf

From Achiulf to Witichis

  1. Achiulf - see above
    1. Ansila
    2. Ediulf
    3. Ermanarich - descendants see below
    4. Wultulf
      1. Walarawans
        1. Winithar , X 376, King,
          1. Wandalar, king
            1. Valamir , * around 425, X 470, King 440,
            2. Widimir, King, † 473,
              1. Widimir the Younger
            3. Thiudimir , king 470, † 475; ⚭ NN; Concubine: Erelieva * around 435/440, † after 490,
              1. Theodis, † 481
              2. Theodoric the Great (mother Erelieva), * around 454 in Pannonia , † August 30, 526 in Ravenna , 471 king of the Ostrogoths; ⚭ 493 Audofleda , * around 470, † after 526, daughter of Childerich I , King of the Franks , ( Merovingian )
                1. Amalasuntha , * 496, † murdered April 30, 535 on the island of Martana in the Lake of Bolsena , Latium , Queen 526; ⚭ I 515 Eutharich , * around 480 † around 523 (see below),
                2. (illegitimate) Theudigotha, * around 475/80, † after 500; ⚭ Alaric II , † 507, King of the Visigoths ( Balthen ),
                  1. Amalrich , * 502, † 531, King of the Visigoths ,
                3. (illegitimate) Ostrogotho , * around 475/480, † after 500; ⚭ Sigismund , King of the Burgundians , † 523,
              3. Theodimund, * around 450, X 479,
              4. Amalafrida (mother: Ereliva), * around 455/460, † murdered 525; ⚭ I NN; ⚭ II 500 Thrasamund , King of the Vandals, around 460, † May 6, 523,
                1. (I) Theodahad , * murdered around 480, † December 536, King November 534; ⚭ I Gothelindis,
                  1. (I) Theudegisklos (perhaps identical to Theudigisel , King of the Visigoths 548/549),
                  2. Theodenantha
                2. (I) Amalaberga , * around 495, † after 540; ⚭ 510 Herminafried , Prince of the Thuringians, † murdered 534,
                  1. Amalafrid , * around 511, † after 540, Byzantine general,
                  2. Daughter ⚭ Audoin King of the Lombards , † 561

Branch of the Ermanarich

    1. Ermanarich , * around 266, † 376, King 350; ⚭ Sunilda, † around 375
      1. Hunimund, king
        1. Gesimund (insecure)
        2. Thorismund, † shortly after 400, king around 400
          1. Berimund
            1. Widerich
              1. Eutharich , * around 480, † 522; ⚭ 515 Amalasuntha , daughter of Theodoric the Great , † April 30, 535 (see above)
                1. Athalaric , * 516, † poisoned October 2, 534, King 526
                2. Matasuentha , * around 518/520, † after 550; ⚭ I 537 Witichis , king of the Ostrogoths 536-540, † around 542; ⚭ II 548 Germanus , cousin of Justinian I , † autumn 550
                  1. (II) Germanus Postumus , * 550/551, † 605

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Heather 1989, p. 105.
  2. ↑ Wolfram 2010, pp. 26-30.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Wenskus : Amaler. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 978-3-11-004489-8 , p. 246 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).