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Odoacer [a] (/ ˌ oʊ d oʊ ˈ eɪ s ər / OH-doh-AY-sər; [b] c. 433 – 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, [c] was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who deposed the Western Roman child emperor Romulus Augustulus and became the ruler of Italy (476–493).
Odoacer had previously become the de facto ruler of Italy following his deposition of Romulus Augustulus, the final emperor of the Western Roman Empire, in 476. Under Theodoric, the Ostrogothic kingdom reached its zenith, stretching from modern Southern France in the west to the modern western Serbia in the southeast.
After the deposition of the last Western Emperor in 476, Heruli leader Odoacer was appointed Dux Italiae (Duke of Italy) by the reigning Byzantine Emperor Zeno.Later, the Germanic foederati, the Scirians and the Heruli, as well as a large segment of the Italic Roman army, proclaimed Odoacer Rex Italiae ('King of Italy). [1]
For several years, the armies of Odoacer and Theodoric vied for supremacy across the Italian peninsula. [32] Theodoric besieged Odoacer in Ravenna until 2 February 493, when a treaty was signed making the kings joint rulers of Italy. [31] Theodoric entered Ravenna on 5 March 493, [33] and a banquet celebrating the treaty was organized on 15 ...
A massacre of Odoacer's soldiers and supporters follows. Theodoric the Great allies with the Franks and marries Audofleda , sister of Clovis I . He also marries his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Burgundians , Vandals and Visigoths , establishing a political alliance with the Germanic kingdoms in the West.
Odoacer's deposition of Romulus Augustus, occurring in 476 AD, was a coup that marked the end of the reign of the Western Roman Emperor last approved by the Western Roman Senate and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy through Odoacer's decision to adopt the title of Dux/Rex Italiae(Duke/King of Italy), although Julius Nepos exercised control over Dalmatia until 480.
A massacre of Odoacer's soldiers and supporters follows. Theodoric the Great allies with the Franks and marries Audofleda , sister of Clovis I . He also marries his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Burgundians , Vandals and Visigoths , establishing a political alliance with the Germanic kingdoms in the West.
Idikon or Edico, [1] the father of Odoacer, who became a magister militum in the Roman Army and the first King of Italy (476–493). [1] This same Ediko is also claimed a few hundred years later as an ancestor of the ducal House of Welf (a branch of the House of Este ), which is one of the ancestral houses of the House of Hanover ; the ...