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Group: Besançon (Imperial Free City)
People: Theodahad
Topic: Good Feelings, Era of
Location: Cape Bon Tunisia

Theodahad

king of the Ostrogoths
Years: 480 - 536

Theodahad (born c. 480 in Tauresium – died 536) is the King of the Ostrogoths from 534 to 536 and a nephew of Theodoric the Great through his sister.

He might have arrived in Italy with Theodoric and is an elderly man at the time of his succession.

He arrests Amalaswintha, queen of the Ostrogoths from 526 to 534, and imprisons her on an island in Lake Bolsena.