Audofleda

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Audofleda was the sister of Clovis I, King of the Franks. She married Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths (471-526), around 493 ad (exact date unknown). This political move allied Theodoric 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. Theodoric and Audofleda had one daughter, Amalasuntha, who was married to Eutharic and had one daughter and one son; Amalasuntha then ruled as Regent/Queen of the Ostrogoths from 526-34.

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CW Previte-orton. The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge: University Press. 1966.