Theudis

Theudis († June 548 in Seville) was from December to June 531 548 king of the Visigoths.

Theudis was the successor of the 531 killed in Narbonne by the Franks Childebert I. during a campaign Amalaric. Theudis itself was ostgotischer origin. He continued the campaign without over here for further details were known. He was married to a rich Romanin and lay the nickname Flavius ​​to in order to enhance his own position against the Eastern Roman Empire.

Meanwhile, won the northern neighbors of the Visigoth kingdom, the Franks, by the annexation of Burgundy 534 dangerous to power. 541 took the Frankish kings Childebert I and Clotaire I. again a campaign against the Visigoths, which they besieged Saragossa, but succeeded Theudis to expel them. Scarcely less dangerous were the efforts of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian to conquer the western Mediterranean, and so restore the old Roman Empire. In the wars with the Goths and Vandals, the empire that went down 534 Theudis remained true neutral, but for safety's sake put a garrison to Ceuta, to be prepared for attacks. However, so he could not prevent this city was lost at 547 Ostrom.

548 Theudis was killed by enemy Visigoths, who Theudigisel made ​​his successor. However, this could only be kept for one year and was replaced by Agila I..