Amalasuntha

Amalasuntha

▪ queen of the Ostrogoths
also spelled  Amalasuintha  
born 498
died 535, Tuscany [Italy]

      daughter of Theodoric the Great, Ostrogothic king of Italy, and regent (526) and queen (534) of the Ostrogoths (526–534).

      When her husband died, Amalasuntha was left with a son, Athalaric, and a daughter. At Theodoric's death, in 526, Athalaric was 10 years old, and the highly educated Amalasuntha assumed the regency. Her pro-Byzantine policy, her patronage of literature and the arts, and her desire to educate her son in the Roman style were vigorously opposed by a large segment of the Ostrogoth nobility. Hence, she moved even closer to the Byzantine emperor, arranging with Justinian that if she were removed from power she would transfer herself and the whole Ostrogothic treasure to Constantinople. After successfully quelling a plot against her in 533, she put to death three Ostrogothic nobles suspected of involvement in the plot.

      Upon Athalaric's death in October 534, Amalasuntha shared the throne with her cousin Theodahad (q.v.), hoping to give him the title of king while retaining actual power herself. Theodahad, however, influenced by forces increasingly hostile to Amalasuntha's policies, banished her to an island in the Tuscan lake of Bolsena, where she was strangled in her bath by relatives of the nobles killed after the plot of 533.

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