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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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Silverius while the king was in Ravenna.
Hearing of this, the
Gothic king
Witigis sent a huge force, some
accounts put the
force as
large as 150,000, to...
- one with the Byzantines.
Witigis decided to take his
chances with the
Byzantines instead of with the Franks.
While Witigis was
still deliberating, Belisarius...
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another commander named N****s)
command to set up
correspondence with
Witigis.
Witigis informed the
garrison that he
would move as soon as the
Franks had...
- was
elected king by
Ostrogothic nobles in the
autumn of 541
after King
Witigis had been
carried off
prisoner to Constantinople.
Totila proved himself...
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Theodahad was
deposed by
Witigis, who had
forcibly married Amalasuintha's
daughter Matasuntha. With the people's support,
Witigis had
Theodahad put to death...
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Balkans In
combination with the
Frankish threat caused the
Gothic king
Witigis to send only a
small force to
defend Rome from
Belisarius but
instead position...
- Procopius, his
brother Reparatus was one of the
senators taken hostage by
Witigis, but
managed to
escape before the
Ostrogothic king
ordered their slaughter...
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Vacis (or Wachis) was an
Ostrogothic commander under King
Witigis during the Byzantine–Gothic War (535–554).
Vacis had a
Gothic name and, if the words...
- to
remain a widow."
According to
Patrick Amory, she was
forced to
marry Witigis after the
murder of her mother, and her
cousin Theodahadus. Her son Germ****...
