Ostrogotho

This article is about the Burgundian queen. For the daughter of the Gepid king Turisind and wife of the Longobard Duke Wacho see Austrigusa , for the Gotenführer of the 3rd century see Ostrogotha .

Ostrogotho (* around 480 ; † before 516 ) was a daughter of Theodoric the Great and the wife of the Burgundian king Sigismund .

Ostrogotho was the daughter of a woman unknown by name, who is referred to by the historian Jordanes as the concubine of Theodoric and by the anonymous Valesianus as his wife. Jordanes also mentions a sister named Theudigotho . Both are said to have been conceived during Theodoric's stay in Moesia (i.e. before 489).

Ostrogotho was probably baptized in Constantinople with the name Ariadne or Ariagne , after Ariadne , the wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Zenon . Probably to distinguish it from this, it was called Ostrogotho ("Ostgotin") and this epithet finally superimposed on the actual name.

Ostrogotho and her sister accompanied Theodoric on the journey to Constantinople and his train to Italy. During the fighting against Odoacer , their father left them in Ticinum . When Theodoric had consolidated his rule in Italy, he married Ostrogotho in 494 to Sigismund, the son of the Burgundian king Gundobad, for reasons of alliance policy . At least two children came from this marriage, namely Sigrich and a daughter, presumably the 516 or 517 Suavegotho, who was baptized Catholic together with Sigrich . She was married to the Frankish king Theuderich .

Sigrich was strangled in 522 on the orders of his father. His second wife, whom he married after Ostrogotho's death, had convinced him that Sigrich wanted to overthrow him.

literature

• Helmut Castritius :  Ostrogotho. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , p. 350. (online)
• Felix Dahn :  Ostrogotho . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 528.
• Maria Assunta Nagl : Ostrogotho . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVIII, 2, Stuttgart 1942, column 1687 f.

Remarks

1. ↑ Jordanes, Getica 58 .
2. ↑ Anonymous Valesianus 63 .
3. ↑ Ennodius , panegyricus Theoderico regi dictus 10.
4. ↑ Ennodius, vita Epiphanii episcopi Ticinensis 163; 167 and panegyricus Theoderico regi dictus 10.54.
5. ^ Avitus von Vienne , Homily 26 in Sigistrici conversione .