Theodahad

Theodahad
Coin reading in Latin, "D[OMINUS] N[OSTER] THEODAHATUS REX / VICTORIA PRINCIPUM" ('Our lord Theodahad the King' / 'Victory of the Princes').[1][2]
King of the Ostrogoths
Reign534 – c. December 536
PredecessorAthalaric
SuccessorVitiges
Co-monarchAmalasuintha (until 535)
Bornc. 480
Tauresium, Eastern Roman Empire
DiedDecember 536 (aged 56)
SpouseGudeliva
IssueTheudigisel, Theodenantha[3]
MotherAmalafrida
Coin of a bust of Theodahad.
Another coin of Theodahad (534–536), minted in Rome. He is shown wearing a barbarian's moustache.

Theodahad, also known as Thiudahad (Latin: Flavius Theodahatus Rex, Theodahadus, Theodatus; c. 480 – December 536), was the co-monarch of the Ostrogothic Kingdom with his cousin Amalasuintha in 534 and became the sole ruler from April 535 until his death in December 536. In contrast to the reign of Theodoric the Great, Theodahad's rule is generally regarded as a failure.[4]

  1. ^ Hodgkin, Thomas (1896). Italy and Her Invaders. Clarendon Press. p. 651. ISBN 9788482770321.
  2. ^ Lillington-Martin, C. (2016), a review of Theodahad: A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy by Massimiliano Vitiello (2014) for University of Toronto Quarterly, Issue 85:3 (2016), 470-472. https://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.85.3.470.
  3. ^ Arnold H.M. Jones et al. (ed.), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 2, AD 395-527, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press 1980, p. 1067.
  4. ^ Heather, Peter J. Empires, and barbarians: The fall of Rome and the birth of Europe. New York, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.