Unknown Ostrogoths (abt. 430)

Descendants

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Biography

This is the profile for the wife of Theodemir and mother of Amalfrida. Her name is not known at this time. ^[1]

Birth Year Estimation

Achiuf has a birth year of 273. Adding succeeding generations at 30 year intervals gives the following estimated birth years. These estimates are purely speculative and used only for placing persons in their approximate time frame.

• Vultwulf, estimated birth 305
• Valaravans, estimated birth 335
• Vinitharius, estimated birth 365
• Vandalarius, estimated birth 395
• Theodemir, estimated birth 425
• Unknown Wife of Theodemir, estimated birth 430

Marriage

She married Theodemir, son of Vandalarius. He was King of the Ostrogoths in Pannonia, under his brother Valamir. He ruled over the western part of their domain which covered the county of Somogy and northeastern Croatia. He succeeded his brother in [468/49] as King of all the Pannonian Ostrogoths. He died in Kyrrhos in Macedonia in 474.^[1]

Issue

1. Amalfrida, born, say, 445, daughter of Theodemir and his wife, was murdered in the period 523-5. ^[1] Iordanes names "Amalfridam germanam suam [Theoderici]" as the mother of "Theodehadi" and wife of "Africa regi Vandalorum…Thrasamundo". Emperor Zeno used her as ambassador to her half-brother in 487 to thwart his attack on Constantinople. Her second marriage was arranged by her half-brother, Theodoric King of Italy, as part of his efforts to foster the support of the Vandals. Amalafrida's dowry was Lilybæum in western Sicily. After the death of her husband, she unsuccessfully protested his successor's withdrawal of support from her brother, but she was outmanœuvred and killed. She married firstly Hugo before 500. The Widukindi Res Gestæ Saxonicæ names "Huga rex Francorum…unicam filiam Amalbergam" who married "Irminfredo regi Thuringorum", but there is no indication to whom "Huga rex Francorum" could refer. She married secondly, about 500, Thrasamund, King of the Vandals, son of Gento the Vandal or Gelimer the Vandal (before 460-523).

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Charles Cawley. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Medieval Lands Database Italy Accessed May 20, 2018 jhd