Ruler · 510 – 552

Totila

Lived 510 – 552; monarch. King of the Ostrogoths of Ostrogothic Kingdom, 541 – 552.

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Lived: 510 – 552; 42 years
In office: 11 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Ostrogothic Kingdom
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of the Ostrogoths

Ostrogothic Kingdom · the 5th of 6 dated reigns · 475 – 552

1 before

Totila541 – 552

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 541 – 552 · 11 years · came to it aged 31

Came to it: elected
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 552, the year they died

A grandnephew of Theudis, sword-bearer of Theodoric the Great and king of the Visigoths, Totila was elected king by Ostrogothic nobles in the autumn of 541 after the deaths of two former Ostrogothic kings, Ildibad and Eraric.

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