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Eutharic Cilliga (Latin: ''Flavius Eutharicus Cillica'') was an Ostrogothic prince from Iberia (modern-day Spain) who, during the early 6th century, served as Roman Consul and "son in arms" (''filius per arma'') alongside the Byzantine emperor Justin I. He was the son-in-law and presumptive heir of the Ostrogoth king Theoderic the Great but died in AD 522 at the age of 42 before he could inherit Theoderic's title. Theoderic claimed that Eutharic was a descendant of the Gothic royal house of Amali and it was intended that his marriage to Theoderic's daughter Amalasuintha would unite the Gothic kingdoms, establish Theoderic's dynasty and further strengthen the Gothic hold over Italy. During his year of consulship in 519 relations with the East Roman Empire flourished and the Acacian schism between the Eastern and Western Christian churches was ended. Whilst Eutharic was nominally a statesman, politician and soldier of the Roman Empire, he was also an Arian, whose views clashed with the Catholic majority; as consul enforcing Theoderic's tolerant policy towards the Jewish people, he incurred resentment from the local Catholics, whose traditions were less than tolerant.〔"The Italian Catholic clergy had a tradition of intolerance towards the Jewish people that stretched back to Ambrose; the Arians, as represented by the king, probably supported general tolerance because it was in their own interests as a minority religion," observes Patrick Amory, ''People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554'', p. 216.〕 Following disturbances in Ravenna, where Catholics burnt down a number of synagogues, Eutharic's siding with the Jewish people of Ravenna was reported with resentment in a fragmentary contemporary chronicle.〔The incident is reported only in the ''Anonymous Valesianus'' (Amory p. 216); "The ''Anonymous Valesianus'' covered the period 474—526 essentially from a Catholic-exarchate point of view and was probably written near Ravenna ca 527." (Thomas S. Burns, ''The Ostrogoths: kingship and society'', 1980:66).〕 Some time after the death of Eutharic, his son Athalaric briefly held the Ostrogothic throne but died at the age of 18. After Athalaric's death, Eutharic's widow moved to Constantinople where further attempts at establishing a dynasty failed. ==Early life== Eutharic was born around AD 480 to a noble ostrogoth family of the Amali line.〔Burns, ''A History of the Ostrogoths'', p. 92〕 Eutharic's ancestry has been traced back through his father Veteric, son of Berismund, son of Thorismund, son of Hunimund, son of Hermanaric, son of Achiulf.〔Jones, ''Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire''〕 Eutharic grew up in Iberia (modern-day Spain) where he had a reputation for being "a young man strong in wisdom and valor and health of body".〔Bury, ''History of the Later Roman Empire'', p. 151.〕〔Jordanes, ''Getica'', (p. 298 )〕 He was later to become the "son in arms" (''filius per arma'') to the Byzantine emperor Justin I, a role which indicated a part of his early life may have been spent as a soldier.〔Amory, ''People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489–554'', p. 65〕 Eutharic's status in both the Gothic and Roman world was elevated by the attentions of Theoderic the Great who he was related to distantly through their mutual connection with Hermanric.〔〔Goetz, ''Regna and Gentes'', p. 93〕 Hermanric was an Ostrogoth chief who ruled much of the territory north of the Black Sea. Eutharic was descended through five generations from Hermanric, whilst Theoderic was a descendant of Hermanric's older brother Vultwulf.〔O'Donnell, ''Cassiodorus'', Ch. 2〕 By the late 5th century Theoderic was king of the Ostrogoths, ruling from Ravenna in Italy and a close ally of the Roman Emperor Zeno. Following the death of a rival, Theodoric Strabo, Theoderic the Great received the titles of ''patricius'' and ''magister militum'' from Zeno and in 484 he was appointed consul.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ancestors of King Theodoric )〕 Though there was tension between Theoderic and Zeno's successor Anastasius I, the emperor who followed Anastasius, Justin I, sought reconciliation with Theoderic whose influence in the Gothic world would make him a powerful ally.〔Mitchell, "A history of the later Roman Empire, AD 284–641", p. 120〕〔Barker, ''Justinian and the Later Roman Empire'', p. 148〕 Having worked throughout his life to establish a kingdom and strengthen relations with both the church and Rome, Theoderic was keen to establish a dynasty. His marriage to Audofleda however had produced only a daughter, Amalasuintha. Therefore, to achieve his ambitions Theoderic would have to ensure he chose a son-in-law with an ancestry equal in strength to his own. His investigations into the Gothic royal lines, which were by this time widely distributed across Europe, led him to Iberia. Here he discovered Eutharic, the last heir of a related branch of the Amali, who had recently assumed the regency of Spain.〔〔Gibbon, ''The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire'' p. 155〕 More recent studies however suggest that Eutharic's Amali ancestry may have been a deliberate invention on the part of Theoderic to aid his ambitions of establishing dynastic credibility.〔Wolfram, ''History of the Goths'', p. 328〕 According to ''Gesta Theoderici'' Eutharic belonged to the Gothic house of Alan rather than the house of Amal.〔Bachrach, ''A history of the Alans'', p. 97〕 Whilst Jordanes, in his history of the Goths, does make reference to Eutharic's ''prudentia et virtus'', or pride and valour, this too may have been a fabrication on the part of Theoderic.〔Amory, ''People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489–554'', p. 58 & p. 451〕 Those qualities were recognised as requirements of Gothic ethnographic ideology, expressed in their code of ''civilitas''. It would have been highly beneficial for Theoderic's chosen son-in-law to possess them.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eutharic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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