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Vitiges (also known as Vitigis, Vitigo, Witiges or Wittigis, and in Old Norse as Vigo) (died 542) was king of Ostrogothic Italy from 536 to 540. [1] He succeeded to the throne of Italy in the early stages of the Gothic War of 535–554 , as Belisarius had quickly captured Sicily the previous year and was in southern Italy at the head of the ...
Witiges, who was the Ostrogothic ruler at that time, could not defend the kingdom successfully and was finally captured when the capital Ravenna fell. The Ostrogoths rallied around a new leader, Totila , and largely managed to reverse the conquest, but were eventually defeated.
The Ostrogoths (Latin: Ostrogothi, Austrogothi) were a Roman-era Germanic people.In the 5th century, they followed the Visigoths in creating one of the two great Gothic kingdoms within the Western Roman Empire, drawing upon the large Gothic populations who had settled in the Balkans in the 4th century.
Theodoric (or Theoderic) the Great (454 – 30 August 526), also called Theodoric the Amal, [b] was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, [3] regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patrician of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Ildibad was a nephew of Theudis, an Ostrogoth king of the Visigoths in Spain. This relationship led Peter Heather to suggest that both belonged to a powerful, non-royal clan. [1] In 540, the Ostrogothic king Witiges was taken prisoner by Belisarius in Ravenna. Ildibad's children were also taken prisoner. [2]
The Ostrogoth garrison quickly realized that, with the population hostile, their position was untenable. Thus, on 9 December 536 AD, Belisarius entered Rome through the Asinarian Gate at the head of 5,000 troops, while the Ostrogoth garrison was leaving the city through the Flaminian Gate and headed north towards Ravenna. [ 6 ]
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 ...
The king of the Ostrogoths, Witigis, had seen the importance of the town and sent them there to delay the attack on Ravenna which was why it had such a strong garrison. [1] Belisarius had prepared a large force of 11,000 troops to overwhelm the garrison. [1] Just before the siege started the garrison sent out a foraging party to gather supplies.