Teia

Teja († 552) was the last king of the Ostrogoths.

Originally commander Gothic troops in Verona, he took part in the plane of Busta Gallorum 552 in the battle. There, the Eastern Roman Narses defeated Totila King of the Goths, who fell in battle.

Teja fled to Pavia and was raised there by the remaining troops to the king. He allied himself with the Franks and was able to Narses for a time in Central Italy, last still in the Naples area, hold. In October 552, the Ostrogoths, however, of Narses in the Battle of the milk mountain ( Mons Lactarius ) were struck south of Naples. Teja himself fell when he was in a rocky gorge of Mount Vesuvius forward defended his people fled away and had to change his shield.

The surviving Goths submitted to some imperial troops, sometimes they fled to the Swiss franc. Various Gothic garrison commander contributed a few more years resistance against Narses. 555 surrendered the last Gothic unit north of Salerno. The Ostrogothic state in Italy was the end - the last Goths went from 568 in the Lombards on.

Literally, he is one of the main heroes in Felix Dahn's novel, A Struggle for Rome; but already the contemporary Byzantine historian Prokopios sat Teja in his work a monument.