Amalasonte
Amalasuntha, meaning in gothic , "(born after 494 , Audofleda , sister of Clovis I , king of the Franks.
Biography
Amalasuntha married Prince Amale Eutharic , a distant cousin, who should succeed Theodoric, without male issue. This prince died soon leaving a young son named Athalaric which Theodoric made his heir.
Amalasuntha young widow for 522 / 523 , during the minority government of Athalaric (from 526. Amalasuntha trying to get closer to the Romans , she had taken for the learned minister Cassiodorus.
According to F. Roy Willis histoiren, Amalasuntha (or Amalasuntha) ruled the kingdom for his brother then aged 10, after the death of his father Theodoric in 526 . She had inherited her father's diplomatic skills and realized that the most economical way to prevent an invasion of Italy by the Byzantine army was to maintain with the emperor of cordial relations.
But the young king died prematurely in 534 , and must share the throne with Theodat , his cousin became her husband, who strangled the following year on an island in Lake Bolsena : This murder is an excuse for general Byzantine Belisarius for intervene in Italy and meddle Ostrogoths, to serve the Emperor Justinian , causing the " Gothic wars. "
References
- The marriage between Theodoric the Great and Alboflde took place after the capture of Ravenna on Odoacer ( 493 ), probably 494
- In 493 / 494 , Clovis and his family were not yet converted to Christianity
- in his book "Western Civilization, Volume 1. From antiquity to the sixteenth century "
Bibliography
- Jordanes ;
- Michel Rouche , Clovis, Editions Fayard, 1996 ( ISBN 2-213-59632-8 ) .
- WILLIS, F. Roy "Western Civilization. Volume 1. From antiquity to the sixteenth century Montreal, Gurin publisher (Fourth edition), 1992, p. 201-213.
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