Turisind
Turisind (also Turisindus, Thurisin, Thurisind, Thoriswinth ) was a rex Gepidorum (King of the Gepids ) in the 6th century.
Life
Nothing is known about his childhood and youth.
After the death of King Elemund Turisind ousted his underage son Ustrigoth from power and ascended the throne himself. Turisind married his daughter Austrigusa (also Austrigosa) around 515 to Wacho (510-540), the dux (duke) of the Longobards.
The Lombards moved their settlement area around 547 to the Save and Lower Danube to Pannonia , very close to the Gepids. In 547 the war with the Gepids broke out openly, with the Lombards being supported by Eastern Roman auxiliaries. In view of this superiority, the Gepid king Turisind agreed to an armistice.
When the Gepids and Lombards faced each other two years later, both armies withdrew due to omissions and there was another two-year armistice.
From 549 onwards hostilities broke out again, with the Lombards defeating the Gepids in 552 in the battle of the Asfeld . Turismod, the son of King Turisind, was killed by Alboin . Finally, Justinian I brokered a (temporary) peace agreement.
Turisind died around 560, he was succeeded by his son Kunimund .
literature
Felix Dahn : Thoriswinth . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 121.
swell
- Paulus Diaconus , Historia Langobardorum , ed. Ludwig Bethmann and Georg Waitz , in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum saec. VI – IX , Hahn, Hanover 1878
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum I, chap. 27
- ↑ a b Urs Müller: Longobard legends . In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 18, pp. 95-99.
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum I, chap. 21st
- ↑ Origo Gentis Langobardorum Chap, 4
- ^ A b John Martindale: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . Volume 3a, Cambridge 1992, pp. 152f.
- ↑ Origo Gentis Langobardorum Chap, 5
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum I, chap. 22nd
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum I, chap. 23
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Turisind |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Turisindus; Thurisind; Thoriswinth, Thurisin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of the Gepids |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 560 |