- Witege,
Witige or
Wittich (Old English: Wudga, Widia; Gotho-Latin: Vidigoia) or
Vidrik "Vidga"
Verlandsson (Old Norse: Vidrīk + Viðga or
Videke + Verlandsson...
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Vitiges (also
known as Vitigis, Vitigo,
Witiges or Wittigis, and in Old
Norse as Vigo) (died 542) was king of
Ostrogothic Italy from 536 to 540. He succeeded...
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mentioned in the
German poems about Theoderic the
Great as the
father of
Witige. He is also
attributed to have made
various swords for
Charlemagne and his...
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entered Rome with the
approval of Pope Silverius. Theodahad's
successor Witiges gathered together an army and
besieged Rome for
several months, subjecting...
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Imperial past came in 539,
during the
Gothic War, when
Uraias (a
nephew of
Witiges,
formerly King of the
Italian Ostrogoths)
carried out
attacks in Milan...
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figure in
Germanic heroic legend who
often appears together with his
friend Witige. He is
mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon
poems Beowulf and Widsith. He later...
- (Wayland the Smith),
whose son
after that was Viðga
Velentsson (Wittich or
Witige), who
became a companion/champion of King Þiðrekr (Dietrich von Bern). Thus...
- the
Byzantine Empire embarked on a
campaign to
reconquer Italy in 535.
Witiges, who was the
Ostrogothic ruler at that time,
could not
defend the kingdom...
- led to the
election of a new king,
Witiges, a
former general under Theodoric the Great. Upon
learning of
Witiges's election,
Theodahad returned to Ravenna...
- Ravenna,
Witiges and his men were
trapped in the
Ostrogothic capital.
Belisarius proved more
capable at
siege warfare than his
rival Witiges had been...
