Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Witiges (Gothic King during the Siege of Rome)



Witiges was the King of the Ostrogoths in Italy from 536 to 540, the year he died.
He succeeded to the throne during the iddle of the war, as Belisarius had quickly captured Sicily the previous year. Witiges had his predecesor Theodahad murdered after the imprisonment and death of his mother-in-law. Justinian's general Belisarius took both Witiges and Matasuntha as captives to Constantinople, where he would later die.

http://viswiki.com/en/Witiges
http://neohumanism.org/w/wi/witiges.html

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