Audofleda
title: "Audofleda" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["ostrogothic-queens-consort", "converts-to-christianity-from-germanic-paganism", "5th-century-ostrogothic-people", "6th-century-ostrogothic-people", "5th-century-frankish-people", "6th-century-frankish-nobility", "5th-century-frankish-women", "6th-century-frankish-women", "6th-century-queens-consort", "5th-century-queens-consort", "theodoric-the-great"] topic_path: "geography/germany" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audofleda" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Audofleda |
| succession | Queen of the Ostrogoths |
| consort | yes |
| reign | 493 – 511 |
| birth_date | 467 |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Ravenna, Ostrogothic Kingdom |
| father | Childeric I |
| mother | Basina of Thuringia |
| spouse | Theodoric the Great |
| issue | Amalasuntha |
| dynasty | Merovingian |
| religion | Arianism |
| :: |
| name = Audofleda
| succession = Queen of the Ostrogoths
| consort = yes
| reign = 493 – 511
| birth_date = 467
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place = Ravenna, Ostrogothic Kingdom
| father = Childeric I
| mother = Basina of Thuringia
| spouse = Theodoric the Great
| issue = Amalasuntha
| dynasty = Merovingian
| religion = Arianism
Audofleda ( – ), was a Gothic queen of the Ostrogothic Kingdom by marriage to Theoderic the Great.
Life
She was the sister of Clovis I, King of the Franks. She married Theoderic the Great, King of the Ostrogoths (471–526), around 493 (exact date unknown). Theoderic sent an embassy to Clovis to request the marriage. This political move allied Theoderic with the Franks, and by marrying his daughters off to the kings of the Burgundians, the Vandals, and the Visigoths, he allied himself with every major 'Barbarian' kingdom in the West.
Audofleda was a pagan prior to her marriage, and was baptised at the time of her wedding by an Arian bishop. Theoderic and Audofleda had one daughter, Amalasuintha, who ruled the Ostrogoths from 526 until 534.
References
References
- Previté-Orton, Charles William. (1966). "The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History". Cambridge University Press.
- Deanesly, Margaret. (1960). "A History of Early Medieval Europe, 476-911". Methuen.
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