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AMALASUNTHA or AMALASUENTHA, See also:queen of the See also:Ostrogoths (d. 535), daughter of See also:Theodoric, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Ostrogoths, was married in 515 to Eutharic, an Ostrogoth of the old See also:Amal See also:line, who had previously been living in See also:Spain. Her See also:husband died, apparently in the See also:early years of her See also:marriage, leaving her with two See also:children, Athalaricand Matasuentha. On the See also:death of her See also:father in 526, she succeeded him, acting as See also:regent for her son, but being herself deeply imbued with the old See also:Roman culture, she gave to that son's See also:education a more refined and See also:literary turn than suited the ideas of her See also:Gothic subjects. Conscious of her unpopularity she banished, and afterwards put to death, three Gothic nobles whom she suspected of intriguing against her See also:rule, and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time opened negotiations with the See also:emperor Justinian with the view of removing herself and the Gothic treasure to See also:Constantinople. Her son's death in 534 made but little See also:change in the posture of affairs. Amalasuntha, now queen, with a view of strengthening her position, made her See also:cousin Theodahad partner of her See also:throne (not, as sometimes stated, her husband, for his wife was still living). The choice was unfortunate. Theodahad, notwithstanding a See also:varnish of literary culture, was, a See also:coward and a See also:scoundrel. He fostered the disaffection of the Goths, and either by his orders or with his permission, Amalasuntha was imprisoned on an See also:island in the Tuscan See also:lake of See also:Bolsena, where in the See also:spring of 535 she was murdered in her See also:bath.
The letters of See also:Cassiodorus, See also:chief See also:minister and literary adviser of Amalasuntha, and the histories of See also:Procopius and Jordanes, give us our chief See also:information as to the See also:character of Amalasuntha.
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