Audofleda
Sign in to saveAudofleda ( – ), was a Gothic queen of the Ostrogothic Kingdom by marriage to Theoderic the Great.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Audofleda
- Royalty.succession
- Queen of the Ostrogoths
- Royalty.consort
- yes
- Royalty.reign
- 493 – 511
- Royalty.birth_date
- 467
- Royalty.death_place
- Ravenna, Ostrogothic Kingdom
- Royalty.father
- Childeric I
- Royalty.mother
- Basina of Thuringia
- Royalty.spouse
- Theodoric the Great
- Royalty.issue
- Amalasuntha
- Royalty.dynasty
- Merovingian
- Royalty.religion
- Arianism
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Audofleda ( – ), was a Gothic queen of the Ostrogothic Kingdom by marriage to Theoderic the Great.
==Life== She was the sister of Clovis I, King of the Franks. She married Theoderic the Great, King of the Ostrogoths (471–526), around 493 (exact date unknown). Theoderic sent an embassy to Clovis to request the marriage. This political move allied Theoderic with the Franks, and by marrying his daughters off to the kings of the Burgundians, the Vandals, and the Visigoths, he allied himself with every major 'Barbarian' kingdom in the West.
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