Dagistheus ( 479) was an
Ostrogothic
The Ostrogoths () were a Roman-era Germanic peoples, Germanic people. In the 5th century, they followed the Visigoths in creating one of the two great Goths, Gothic kingdoms within the Western Roman Empire, drawing upon the large Gothic populatio ...
chieftain. The name is
Germanic.
Theodoric the Great
Theodoric (or Theoderic) the Great (454 – 30 August 526), also called Theodoric the Amal, was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, regent of the Visigoths (511–526 ...
(r. 474–526) sent Dagistheus and Soas as hostages to
Adamantius in
Epirus
Epirus () is a Region#Geographical regions, geographical and historical region, historical region in southeastern Europe, now shared between Greece and Albania. It lies between the Pindus Mountains and the Ionian Sea, stretching from the Bay ...
in 479. He was presumably a leading Ostrogothic chieftain under Theodoric. The Roman baths in
Constantinople
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were possibly named after him. He may have been an ancestor of the later
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...
general
Dagisthaeus
Dagisthaeus (, ''Dagisthaîos'') was a 6th-century Eastern Roman military commander, probably of Gothic origin, in the service of the emperor Justinian I.
Dagisthaeus was possibly a descendant of the Ostrogothic chieftain Dagistheus.* In 548, ...
.
References
Sources
*{{cite book, first1=Arnold Hugh Martin, last1=Jones, first2=John Robert , last2=Martindale, first3=J. , last3=Morris, title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5W6vCO_pYUC&pg=PA341, year=1980, publisher=Cambridge University Press, isbn=978-0-521-20159-9, pages=341–
5th-century Ostrogothic people
5th-century Byzantine people