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		Witigis era capaz de alegar a un muerto cuando comenzada a contar sus historias.
		Witigis era un gran escalador, y trepaba por superficies lisas que a otras personas les resultaba imposible elevarse un par de metros.
		Witigis se pegó a la puerta de entrada del ático, esperando a que parara el movimiento para irrumpir en la casa.
	anacroth.iespana.es /cincoelfos.htm (8837 words)

	Cassiodorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Athalaric died in early 534, and the remainder of Cassiodorus' public career was engulfed by the Byzantine reconquest and dynastic intrigue among the Ostrogoths.
		His last letters were drafted in the name of Witigis.
		He spent his career trying to bridge the cultural divides that were fragmenting the 6th century, between East and West, Greek culture and Latin, Roman and Goth, Christian people with an Arian ruler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cassiodorus (631 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Justinian
		Witigis made for Ravenna where he married Amalasuintha's daughter Matasuintha, who made an unwilling bride, and bought off the Franks.
		Witigis had two options: one was to accept an offer from the Merovingian Franks to help in return for sharing the rule of Italy, and the other was to negotiate with the Romans.
		The emperor's motive may have been the danger on the eastern front as much as distrust of Belisarius, but in any case, Belisarius, with important Goths including Witigis and Matasuintha, and the Gothic treasure, made their way to the capital, where the emperor's greeting was cool and mistrustful.
	www.roman-emperors.org /justinia.htm (9963 words)

	Goths, Franks, and Justinian's Empire 476-610 by Sanderson Beck
		Cassiodorus wrote that Witigis was elected by the free judgment of the people, not in the royal bedchamber like Theodahad, who was then killed fleeing Rome on his way to Ravenna by his enemy Optaris, whom Witigis had sent.
		Witigis left a garrison of 4,000 in Rome and took some senators hostage with him to Ravenna, where he married Athalaric's sister Matasuntha against her will.
		Witigis was held in honorable captivity; but his nephew Uraias refused to take his place to fight for freedom.
	www.san.beck.org /AB12-GothsFranksJustinian.html (23329 words)

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		The Byzantine reconquest of the West began in Italy during the reign of King Witigis, who was fairly successful in repelling the Roman and Byzantine forces.
		Witigis was taken to Constantinople, lived there for a little over two years, and died around 542 near the Persian border.
		Despite Witigis' agreements with the Byzantines, the Goths were determined to drive the Byzantines from Italy, and elected Heldebadus as their king.
	www.ghg.net /shetler/rome/rulers/barbarians.html (509 words)

	Prophetic 1260 day/years of Daniel and Revelation
		The Gothic nobles were unhappy with their king Theodahad and replaced him with Witigis who had proven himself in battle, in the hope that he would save Italy from Justinian’s re-conquest.
		Witigis left a garrison of 4000 men in Rome and took most of his forces to the north --Ravenna.
		It was in 538 that Witigis, the leader of the Goths finally withdrew his armies that were besieging Rome and marched northward to Ravenna, the Gothic capital.
	dedication.www3.50megs.com /dan/1260.html (3084 words)

	Cassiodorus: Chapter 4, Conversion
		[[1]] Witigis besieged Rome, then lifted the siege in 538; in 539 the Goths recaptured Milan, but Belisarius, in spite of his feud with Narses, captured Ariminum.
		Finally, Belisarius captured Ravenna in 540 and with it the chief part of the Gothic nobility, including Witigis himself.
		We have arrived at a working hypothesis for Cassiodorus' movements at this time, determining that he may well have left Ravenna, perhaps under constraint, with the party in which Belisarius took Witigis to Constantinople, and that he settled in the eastern metropolis for over a decade.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/texts/cassbook/chap4.html (7317 words)

	FactsOfFaith_Chapter4
		Witigis [Vitiges] was now the king of the Ostrogoths, and Rome was continuing its usual policy.
		The Romans, warned by the experiences of Naples, and urged by the Pope, who had no scruples in breaking his oath with Witigis, sent a messenger inviting him to come.
		Witigis then besieged the city of Rome from.
	www.northernwatchdog.com /FactsOfFaith_Chapter4.html (5073 words)

	A History of Europe, Chapter 6
		Witigis showed up with a huge Gothic army after Rome fell, so Belisarius decided to sit tight and leave the next move to the Goths.
		Witigis cut off Rome's water supply, which still came in through the aqueducts, but that caused a malaria outbreak in his own camp.
		Taking a city as well defended as Ravenna was expected to involve slow siege work, but when a third imperial army marched around the Adriatic and attacked from the north the pressure became too much for the dispirited Goths.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /europe/eu06.html (19196 words)

	ÉKÉSÉAKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vittikath {Vitiges, Witiches, Waitigais, Witigis}* [(Hvïðïkéz, Hviðgar, DLRS: Hva%ekaz)] : 536-540 King of the Ostrogoths 536-540, husband of the Ostrogothic princess Matasuntha (Matasuntha was the grand-daughter of Theodoric the Great through her mother, the regent queen Amalasuntha.
		She first married Witigis, King of the Ostrogoths, but then married Germanus, nephew of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian.), succeeded Theodahad as king in 536.
		He died shortly after < ttp://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/049.html> The Byzantine reconquest of the West began in Italy during the reign of King Witigis, who was fairly successful in repelling the Roman and Byzantine forces.
	www.intrnet.net /~efenglom/Heorthstreow/Hartrie_World/Herubuch/ekesax.htm (10318 words)

	ORB Online Encyclopedia--Overview of Late Antiquity
		Belisarius was beseiged in Rome for a year, Milan was leveled by the Goths, and a great deal of other damage was done.
		But by 540, the Gothic king Witigis had agreed to surrender, and Belisarius occupied Ravenna and confiscated the royal treasure.
		The conspicuous successes of Justinian's policy in the early 530s allowed him to push vigorously for a theological settlement.
	www.nipissingu.ca /department/history/MUHLBERGER/ORB/OVC4S4.HTM (1808 words)

	Justinian
		After Byzantine reinforcements and supplies started to arrive, Witigis (Goths king) lifted the siege of Rome and retreated.
		Belisarius, with important Goths including Witigis and Matasuintha, and the Gothic treasure, made their way to the capital.
		Justinian established an Ostrogothic kingdom in the north of Italy, and freed this way his troops to deal with the Persian threat.
	fstav.tripod.com /emperors/justinian2.html (860 words)

	A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Ostrogoths had shortly before risen against their king Theodahad, and chosen Witigis, whom Belisarius took at Ravenna and carried to Constantinople, leaving the imperial power supreme in Italy.
		Totila, whom the Goths chose in the room of Witigis, recovered fortress after fortress from the incompetent generals who succeeded Belisarius, till he was master of most part of Italy; and at length restored the Gothic kingdom to a better position than it had held since the death of Theodoric.
		But in 552 his army was defeated, and himself slain by Narses, and with him died the last hopes of the Gothic kingdom of Italy.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.v.x.xxxix.html (7957 words)

	Numismatic Articles
		His successor was an Ostrogothic commander named Witigis (536-540), who married Theodoric's grandaughter Matasuentha to establish a dynastic tie between himself and the former royal family.
		In 540 the Italian capital of Ravenna fell and Witigis was captured and taken as a prisoner to Constantinople.
		After Theodahad's overthrow, his successor Witigis (536-540) does not seem to have issued any coins from the Roman mint, the obvious reason for this being that the Ostrogoths lost control of the city in December of 536.
	www.heritagecoins.com /features/numisarticles.php?id=3 (6160 words)

	AA
		In this history we find much of the story of the fulfillment of the prophetic identification of the "little horn." Witigis [Vitiges] the last of the Ostrogoth kings of Italy had received a solemn oath of fealty from Silverius upon his assumption of the Papal throne.
		Witigis reacted, and laid seige to the city from March, 537 till March, 538, when after loosing the flower of his army he returned to his capitol in Ravenna.
		With the conquest of Rome by Belisarius, the history of the ancient city may be considered as terminating; and with his defense against Witigis, commences the history of the Middle Ages.
	ourworld.cs.com /aawwn2/sev/eight/eight-aj.htm (12154 words)

	Odonnell
		Jordanes writes for an audience already sympathizing with the Goths but puzzled by their downfall; if the counsels anything, it is resigned acceptance of Roman superiority.
		It is particularly worthy of note that the Getica treats the defeat and capture of Witigis in 540 by Belisarius as the end of the war - later events under other Gothic kings and other generals go completely unmentioned, even though they are treated in the Romana.
		The purpose of the Romana had been to reflect the continuing misery of Roman might; but the purpose of the Getica, it now emerges, was to tell a story that had already ended, even if the moribund Gothic people continued to struggle fruitlessly against the inevitable.
	it.geocities.com /paginedistoria/odonnell.html (7330 words)

	Justinian's War for the Second Coming
		The Pope was also hopeful, and he broke his word to the Ostrogoths and went over to the side of Justinian.
		The king of the Ostrogoths, Witigis, assembled an army of about 150,000 (mostly mailed cavalry), returned to Rome in March 537 and began a siege of the city.
		The Ostrogoths cut Rome's outside supply of water - the beginning of the end of Rome's great aqueducts and an end to its luxurious public baths, Rome now relying on its water wells and water from the Tiber river.
	www.fsmitha.com /h3/h01const.htm (2213 words)

	Cassiodorus: Chapter 2, Cassiodorus under Theoderic
		[[1]] The two fragments that survive seem to be from panegyrics delivered on the naming of Eutharic as heir apparent and on the marriage of Witigis and Mathesuentha.
		We are inclined today to disparage the panegyric as a literary genre; historians who chafe at the allusive mention of otherwise unrecorded events in such rhetorical set-pieces are not often charitable to their authors.
		By this time the Gothic royal party owing allegiance to the Amals had thrown in its lot with the Byzantine forces, even to the point of renouncing Arianism, against the claims of their actual successors as kings of the Gothic people in Italy, the relatively uncultured Witigis and his successors, Ildibad, Eraric, and Totila.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/texts/cassbook/chap2.html (4622 words)

	The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia
		Theodahad was killed by a Goth 536 and was replaced by Witigis in fall 536.
		505–565), who entered Ravenna with Byzantine forces; Witigis was taken prisoner to Constantinople, and Belisarius refused the throne.
		In fall 541 Gothic chiefs chose Totila king; he was mortally wounded in battle with Narses* in summer 552.
	www.lcms.org /ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=G&t2=o (3629 words)

	Byzantine Glory : Byzantine Emperors :: Justinian I : early career and wars
		Thinking that this was now his opportunity to support his fellow Catholics and to reassert direct control over the province, Justinian dispatched an army and sent Belisarius with a fleet to attack Sicily, while an embassy set off to gain the support of the powerful Franks now settled in Gaul.
		After the defeat of the Ostrogothic king Witigis and the capture of Ravenna in 540, imperial administration was reestablished in Italy under the praetorian prefect Athanasius.
		Rigorous financial exactions and the rapacity of the soldiers made the new regime unpopular.
	neobyzantine.org /byzantium/emperors/justinian/justinian1.php (1408 words)

	Re: Rome has "fallen"! Now what? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Italy flourished under Theodoric 493-526 at elegant Ravenna; Boethius wrote philosophy in Latin in prison.
		Byzantine generals Belisarius and Narses took Italy in 535-552, beating Ostrogoth kings Witigis and Totila.
		Khusrau I 531-579 replied to Witigis 539, sacked Antioch 540 and took Ephthalite east Iran 557.
	www.ku.edu /carrie/archives/mediev-l/melcher/2001/03/msg00342.html (825 words)

	DANIEL Seven- The Four beasts
		Some have maintained that Rome was "taken" in 537 because Belisarius was “inside“, not 538, but in 537 the war for Rome was just beginning, as we shall see.
		Witigis with his Gothic army, t marched on Rome and besieged the city.
		The siege began in 537 and lasted over a year.
	dedication.www3.50megs.com /dan/daniel_7a.html (2836 words)

	Jordanes - Latin & English - Romana
		Secunda, vero, cum ipso Witigis Romanas arces obsidente congreditur, machinisque illius et turribus, quibus urbem adire temptabat, igne consumptis, eum per anni spatium quamvis inedia laborans deludit.
		In the second one he fought with Weiti-gais himself while the latter was surrounding the Roman fortifications with siege works, used fire to destroy the machines and towers with which he was trying to attack the city, and, even though hard pressed by famine, made sport of him for a full year.
		Contra quem Germanus Patricius, dum exire disponit cum exercitu, Matheswentha, Theodorici regis nepte et a Witigis mortuo derelicta, tradente sibi Principe in matrimonio sumpta, in Sardicense civitate extremum halitum fudit, relinquens uxorem gravidam, quae post ejus obitum postumum ei edidit filium, vocavitque Germanum.
	www.harbornet.com /folks/theedrich/Goths/Romana.htm (3408 words)

	British Archaeology, no 52, April 2000: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Evidence of this has now come to light on the Janiculum Hill, where an aqueduct was filled with masonry, sculpture and pottery from Justinian's period.
		Following the Goths' withdrawal, Justinian captured the Goth King Witigis and took him to Constantinople in triumph.
		A British woman has survived having a 2cm-wide hole drilled in her skull, in an ancient operation known as trepanation used across the world throughout prehistory.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba52/ba52news.html (2188 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Theodora
		But the election was held before Vigilius could reach Rome, and the new pope was the son of Pope Hormisdas, Silverius, who had the support of the Ostrogothic king Theodahad.
		Events were moving rapidly in Italy: Belisarius, leading an imperial invasion force, was advancing from the south, Naples fell, and the Ostrogoths, disgusted with Theodahad's flaccid leadership, deposed him and replaced him with Witigis.
		He decided that his best strategy would be to secure his northern frontier against the Franks before he attended to the Byzantines, and he evacuated Rome, having first received a loyalty oath from Silverius.
	www.roman-emperors.org /dora.htm (6013 words)

	romesite
		At this point the wall follows such an irregular pattern that the Romans call it the crooked wall (Muro Torto).
		When the Goths led by the Witigis besieged Rome in 600 ad they failed to take advantage of the break in this area of the wall.
		The Romans concluded that this area must be protected by St. Peter.
	www.cs.umbc.edu /pub/www/faculty/adjunct/fkuss1/romesite.html (1057 words)

	Byzantine Glory : History :: The age of Justinian the 1st: 527 - 565
		In 535, as in 533, a small, tentative expedition sent to the West - in this instance, to Sicily - met with easy success.
		At first the Goths negotiated; then they stiffened their resistance, deposed their king, Theodahad, in favour of a stronger man, Witigis, and attempted to block Belisarius' armies as they entered the Italian peninsula.
		There the progress of East Roman arms proved slower, and victory did not come until 540 when Belisarius captured Ravenna, the last major stronghold in the north, and, with it, King Witigis, a number of Gothic nobles, and the royal treasure.
	neobyzantine.org /byzantium/history/periods/history_justinian_527_565.php (3539 words)

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