[gothic-l] Re: the Thuringians

[Andreas Schwarcz]

Dear Dirk,
generally I agree with your synthesis of Gothic-Thuringian relations, but not with the 
relative chronology of the marriage between Herminafred and Amalaberga and the 
destruction of the Herulic kingdom and the datation of both events. As I showed in my 
essay

Der Nordadria- und Westbalkanraum im 6. Jahrhundert zwischen Goten und 
Byzantinern. In: Slowenien und die Nachbarländer zwischen Antike und Karolingischer 
Epoche, ed. Rajko Bratoz. 2 vols., Ljubljana 2000, vol.1, pp.59-70, esp.pp.65.f.,

a close analysis of Cassiodorus, Variae. IV, 1-3, enables us to put the marriage and an 
embassy to the king of the Heruli with rich gifts before September Ist, 509, when 
Theodoric's envoy Senarius was promoted to the post of Comes patrimonii. Both 
embassies and the Thuringian marriage must be put into the context of Theodoric's 
war with the Franks, the Burgundians and Byzantium on behalf of the Visigoths and his 
diplomatic efforts to secure support for his counterattack over the Alps into Gaul in 508 
and be dated accordingly to 508. The defeat of the Heruli preceded Theodoric's peace 
with the emperor Anastasius in 510 and must be dated into the second half of 509. 
Kind regards
                     Andreas

Ao.Univ.Prof.Dr.Andreas Schwarcz
Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung
Universität Wien
Dr.Karl Lueger-Ring 1
A-1010 Wien
Österreich
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