Theodimundus or Theudimund( la, Theodimundus; gr, Θευδιμούνδος;

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

541) was a Byzantine official of Barbarian origins.

Biography

Theodimundus was the son of ''

strategos ''Strategos'', plural ''strategoi'', Latinized ''strategus'', ( el, στρατηγός, pl. στρατηγοί; Doric Greek: στραταγός, ''stratagos''; meaning "army leader") is used in Greek to mean military general. In the Hellenisti ...

'' (and likely '' MVM vacans'') Mauricius, a son of ''

magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers", plural ) was a top-level military command used in the later Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine the Great. The term referred to the senior military officer (equivalent to a war theatre commander, ...

'' Mundus, himself a possible descendant of

Attila the Hun Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Bulgars, among others, in Central and ...

. He belonged to the barbarian military aristocracy fighting for the Byzantines in the Balkans. Theodimundus was active during the reign of Emperor Justinian (r. 527–565). As a young man (by 540/541), he served in the Byzantine army during the

Gothic War Gothic War may refer to: *Gothic War (248–253), battles and plundering carried out by the Goths and their allies in the Roman Empire. *Gothic War (367–369), a war of Thervingi against the Eastern Roman Empire in which the Goths retreated to Mont ...

of 535-554 under Vitalius. He participated in the Battle of Treviso against the Gothic king Hildebad and barely escaped with his life, fleeing with his commander after the Byzantine defeat.

References

{{Huns 6th-century Byzantine military personnel Byzantine people of Hunnic descent Generals of Justinian I Gepid warriors People of the Gothic War (535–554) Year of birth unknown