Flaccitheus

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Flaccitheus († probably 475) was King of the Rugians from 467 until his death .

About Flaccitheus little is known, but some details are in the Vita Sancti Severini of Eugippius handed. After the battle of the Nedao, the Rugians established their own empire north of the Danube outside the Roman border. The collapse of the late antique administrative order in Noricum accelerated as a result of the effects of the migration of peoples around the middle of the 5th century. Most of the regular Western Roman troops were withdrawn, as was most of the administrative officials. The Rugians in Noricum (who are sometimes referred to in research as "Kremser Rugier") use this to consolidate their position of power; Flaccitheus himself resided opposite Favianis . But they soon came into conflict with the Ostrogoths in Pannonia , who controlled the routes to Italy and prevented the Rugians from passing through to Italy. Flaccitheus, who like most Rugians was an Arian Christian , is said to have asked the Catholic abbot Severin von Noricum , who lived and worked in Noricum , which is ruled by Rugians, for advice. Severin is said to have advised Flaccitheus to wait quietly, then everything would sort itself out, what Flaccitheus is supposed to have calmed down. After Flaccitheus' death (probably in the year 475) his son Feletheus ascended the rugian royal throne.

literature

  • Friedrich Lotter: Severinus von Noricum, legend and historical reality: Investigations into the phase of transition from late antiquity to medieval ways of thinking and living . Stuttgart 1976.
  • John Martindale, John Morris: Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . Vol. 2. Cambridge 1980, p. 473.
  • Walter Pohl : The Gepids and the Gentes on the central Danube after the collapse of the Attila Empire . In: Herwig Wolfram , Falko Daim (ed.): The peoples on the middle and lower Danube in the fifth and sixth centuries . Vienna 1980, pp. 239-305.
  • Edward A. Thompson : Romans and Barbarians . Madison 1982, pp. 113ff.

Remarks

  1. ^ Vita Sancti Severini 5.
  2. See Ludwig Schmidt : Die Ostgermanen . 2nd edition, Munich 1941, p. 120.
predecessor Office successor
unknown King of Rugier
467-475
Feletheus