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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. He succeeded...
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famous for her
great beauty.
Teodata has a
secret boyfriend,
Vitige,
courtier of the King.
Vitige slips away from his
sweetheart Teodata's
bedroom as dawn...
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Ostrogoths Theodoric (493–526)
Athalaric (526–534)
Theodahad (534–536)
Vitiges (536–540)
Ildibad (540–541)
Eraric (541)
Totila (541–552) Teia (552–553)...
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March 538. The city was
besieged by the
Ostrogothic army
under their king
Vitiges; the
defending East
Romans were
commanded by Belisarius, one of the most...
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large force,
Vitiges used his
numbers to
absorb the
attack and then to counter-attack,
winning the battle. Regardless,
Vitiges was
losing the siege...
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Vitiges. He left Rome for Ravenna,
where he
married Amalasuntha's
daughter Matasuntha and
began rallying his
forces against the invasion.
Vitiges led...
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murdered by
Vitiges,
Belisarius was
invited to Rome by Pope
Silverius while the king was in Ravenna.
Hearing of this, the
Gothic king
Vitiges sent a force...
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March 2 –
Siege of Rome: The
Ostrogothic army (45,000 men)
under King
Vitiges begins the
siege of the city.
Belisarius conducts a
delaying action outside...
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Ostrogoths Theodoric (493–526)
Athalaric (526–534)
Theodahad (534–536)
Vitiges (536–540)
Ildibad (540–541)
Eraric (541)
Totila (541–552) Teia (552–553)...
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Europe for
naming years.
Emperor Justinian I
offers to make
peace with
Vitiges, but
Belisarius refuses to
transmit the message. The
Ostrogoths then offer...
