Audofleda

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Audofleda
Amalasuntha
Theodegotha
Ostrogotho
DynastyMerovingian
FatherChilderic I
MotherBasina of Thuringia
ReligionArianism

Audofleda (ca. 467 - ca. 511), was a Gothic queen of the

Theoderic the Great
.

She was the sister of

King of the Ostrogoths (471–526), around 493 AD (exact date unknown).[1] Theoderic sent an embassy to Clovis to request the marriage.[2] This political move allied Theoderic with the Franks, and by marrying his daughters off to the kings of the Burgundians, the Vandals, and the Visigoths
, he allied himself with every major 'Barbarian' kingdom in the West.

Audofleda was a pagan prior to her marriage, and was baptised at the time of her wedding by an Arian bishop.

Amalasuntha, who ruled the Ostrogoths
from 526 until 534.

References

  1. Previté-Orton, Charles William
    (1966). The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ a b Deanesly, Margaret (1960). A History of Early Medieval Europe, 476-911. Methuen. p. 41.
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