Balti dynasty Totally Explained

Everything about Balti Dynasty totally explained

The Balt(h)i dynasty, Baltungs, Balthings, or Balth(e)s, existed among the Visigoths, a Germanic tribes who confronted the Western Roman Empire in its declining years. The Balti took their name from the Gothic word balþa (baltha; bald or bold) It thus meant "the Bold ones" or "Bold men".

History

The Balti were considered next in worth among Gothic fighters, and next in royal dignity, to the Amali. But it was Alaric the Visigoth, a Balth, who led his people to the sacking of Rome in 410 CE and founded a dynasty that would come to rule much of Roman Gaul for a century and all of Roman Hispania for longer, establishing a kingdom in the latter that would last until early in the eighth century.
The Balti dynasty of Visigothic kings reigned from 395 to 531, comprising the following:

Family tree

The names given by Jordanes but otherwise uncorroborated are set in italics.

From Gapt to Achiulf

Gapt

Haimal

Augis

Amala
1. Isarna
  1. Ostrogota, King by 240, (External Link)
    1. Kniva, King, died after 251, (External Link)
      1. his successor: Geberic, King by 340
    2. Hunild
      1. Athal
        Achiulf – for his offspring, see below
        Odulf
  From Achiulf to Witiges

Achiulf – see above

Ansila
Ediulf

Wuldulf (Ataulf)

Walerawans

Winithar, X 376, King, (External Link

)

Vandalarius, King of the Ostrogoths,

Valamir, born by 425, died 470, King 440, (External Link)

Theodemir, King 470, died 475; married to NN; Concubine: Ereleuva born around 435/440, died after 490, (External Link

) and (External Link

)

Theodis, died 481
Theoderic the Great (Mother: Ereleuva), born by 454 in Pannonia, died 30 August 526 in Ravenna. King of the Ostrogoths in 471;(External Link) married in 493 to Audofleda, born around 470, died after 526, daughter of Childeric I, King of the Franks.(External Link)
1. Amalasuntha, born in 496, murdered on 30 April 535 on the island of Martana in Lake Bolsena, Latium. Regent in 526; married in 515 to Eutharic, born by 480, died 522 (see below)(External Link) and (External Link)
2. (illegitimate) Theudigotha, born around 475/80, died after 500; married Alaric II, died 507, King of the Visigoths (Balti dynasty) (External Link)
  1. Amalaric, born 502, died 531, King of the Visigoths, (External Link)
3. (illegitimate) Ostrogotha. born around 475/480, died after 500; married Sigismund, King of the Burgundians, died 523 (External Link),
Theodimund, born around 450, died 479 (External Link)

Amalafrida (Mother: Ereleuva), born around 455/460, murdered in 525; married to unknown first husband; second time in 500 to Thrasamund, King of the Vandals (born around 460, died 6 May 523) (External Link

)

(I) Theodahad, born around 480, murdered, December 537. King in November 534; married to Gothelindis (External Link)
1. (I) Theudegisklos (possibly identifiable as Theudigisel, King of the Visigoths 548/549), (External Link)
2. Theodenantha
(I) Amalaberga, born by 495, died after 540; married in 510 to Hermanafrid, Prince of the Thuringians, murdered in 534 (External Link)
1. Amalafrid, born by 511, died after 540, general in Byzantine service (External Link)
2. Rodelinde married Audoin King of the Lombards, died 561
Videmir, King, died 473, (External Link)
1. Videmir the Younger

Ermanaric, born by 266, died 376, King 350; married Sunilda, died by 375, (External Link

) and (External Link

)

Hunimund, King
1. Sigismund, (External Link)
2. Thorismund, died shortly after 400, King by 400, (External Link)
  1. Berismund
    1. Wideric
      1. Eutharic, born around 480, died 522; married in 515 Amalasuntha, daughter of Theodoric the Great (see above) (External Link)
        Athalaric, born 516, died of poisoning on 2 October 534, King in 526, (External Link)
        Matasuentha, born around 518/520, died after 550; married in 537 to Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths 536-540, died 542; for a second time in 548 to Germanus Justinus, nephew of Justinian I, died in the autumn of 550, (External Link) and (External Link)
        (II) Germanus posthumus, born 550/551, died 605

The above line is clearly not representing the Balti line, but the Amali line, since Amala, Ermanaric, Theodemir, Theodoric the Great, Amalafrida, Amalasuntha, Eutharic, Athalaric and Theodahad, all known to be Amalis, are mentionned there. This line is thus representing the Amal line from Gapt to Witiges, though some Balti members appear on it. Edward Gibbon in footnote 4, Chapter 30, of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

, adds:
� ::"This illustrious race long continued to flourish in France, in the Gothic province of Septimania, or Languedoc; under the corrupted appellation of Boax; and a branch of that family afterwards settled in the kingdom of Naples (Grotius in Prolegom. ad Hist. Gothic. p. 53). The lords of Baux, near Arles, and of seventy-nine subordinate places, were independent of the counts of Provence, (Longuerue, Description de la France, tom. i. p. 357)".

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