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Theodahad (born c. 480 in Tauresium – died 536) was the King of the Ostrogoths from 534 to 536 and a nephew of Theodoric the Great through his sister Amalafrida.〔Jordanes names ''Amalfridam germanam suam ()'' as the mother of ''Theodehadi qui postea rex fuit''〕 He might have arrived in Italy with Theodoric and was an elderly man at the time of his succession. Massimilliano Vitiello states the name "Theodahad" is a compound of 'people' and 'conflict'.〔Massimiliano Vitiello, Theodahad, A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. p. 15,〕 He arrested Amalaswintha, queen of the Ostrogoths from 526 to 534, and imprisoned her on an island in Lake Bolsena.〔Jordanes, LIX, p. 51, and Herwig Wolfram (1998), p. 338〕 Political instability within the Ostrogothic kingdom serves as a pretext to Byzantine general Belisarius to intervene in Sicily and Italy, at the service of the Emperor Justinian, causing the 'Gothic Wars. " Witiges ordered him killed, and succeeded him as king. Theodahad had at least two children with a woman named Gudeliva: Theodegisclus and Theodenantha. ==In fiction== Thiudehad appears as a character in the time travel novel ''Lest Darkness Fall'', by L. Sprague de Camp. 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「Theodahad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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