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Austrigusa was the daughter of Elemund [1]
Elemund may have been the son of Gunderit and grandson of Ardaric;[1]
Elemundus was king of the Gepids, an east Germanic people, during the first half of the 6th century. [1]
Cawley appears to conflate Austragusa as the same person as Ostragotha, not naming the parents of either, simply terming them as Gepidae. [2]
Austragusa was given in marriage to Wacho, the king of the Lombards, in 512." [1]
Austragusa married, as his second wife, Wacho, King of the Lombards, son of Zuchilo (Unichis). Wacho died in 540.
Cawley states that the Origo Gentis Langobardorum names "Austrigusa filiam Gippidorum" as King Wacho's second wife [2]
"The reasons behind the marriage were multiple: on one side it protected the two kings from the threat represented by the Ostrogothic Kingdom, while on the other it reduced the danger represented to the Lombard king by Ildechis, a pretender to the Lombard throne. Wacho was eventually to remarry after Austrigusa's death, but this did not compromise the good relations existing between Lombards and Gepids."[3][4]
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