witiges造句

• With the attack on Ravenna, Witiges and his men were trapped in the Ostrogothic capital.
• Now, however, the armor had hardened, and thirty Witiges could not defeat Dietrich.
• Silverius refused to this and Vigilius then claimed to Belisarius that Pope Silverius had written to Witiges offering to betray the city.
• Theodahad's successor Witiges gathered together an army and besieged Rome for several months, subjecting the city to privation and starvation.
• Fearful that Belisarius might set himself up a permanent kingship should he consolidate his conquests, Justinian recalled him to Constantinople with Witiges in tow.
• Ildibad again attempted to negotiate a surrender, but after Belisarius sailed to Constantinople along with Witiges and Ildibad's family, the war resumed.
• From this position, he arrested a member of the embassy sent by the Ostrogothic king Witiges to the Persians to incite them to attack Byzantium.
• Belisarius refused to grant any concessions save unconditional surrender in lieu of the fact that Justinian wanted to make Witiges a vassal king in Trans-Padane Italy.
• When Witiges, the king of the Ostrogoths, ceded Provence to the Franks in 535, the possession of Arles and Marseilles was guaranteed to Childebert by his brothers.
• A faction of the Gothic nobility pointed out that their own king Witiges, who had just lost, was something of a weakling and they would need a new one.
• Sometime during the spring of 537, the Goths marched on Rome with upwards of 100, 000 men under the leadership of Witiges and laid siege to the city, albeit unsuccessfully.
• After Witiges's capture, the leading candidate for the Ostrogothic throne became Uraias, who was Witiges'nephew, a skilled military commander and in charge of Ticinum ( Pavia ).
• After Witiges's capture, the leading candidate for the Ostrogothic throne became Uraias, who was Witiges'nephew, a skilled military commander and in charge of Ticinum ( Pavia ).
• Belisarius proved more capable at siege warfare than his rival Witiges had been at Rome and the Ostrogoth ruler, who was also dealing with Frankish enemies, was forced to surrender but not without terms.
• After Athalaric, Ostrogoths Theodahad, Witiges, Totila and Teia succeed Theodoric the Great as king of the Ostrogoths, in that order, and theirs is the task to defend what is left of their empire.
• Starting in 535, the Eastern Roman ( Byzantine ) Empire invaded Italy under Justinian I . The Ostrogothic ruler at that time, Witiges, could not defend successfully and was finally captured when the capital Ravenna fell.
• Gothic sovereignty came to an end with the reconquest of Italy by Belisarius, military chief of staff for Justinian, ending in 539 . Cassiodorus'last ghost writing for the Gothic kings was done for Witiges, who was removed to Constantinople in 540.
• In 452, it was besieged again by Attila, but the real break with its Imperial past came in 538, during the Gothic War, when Mediolanum was laid to waste by Uraia, a nephew of Witiges, King of the Goths, with great loss of life.
• Herwig Wolfram suggests that this is an invention by Procopius to " personalize " the causes of political events, and that the real reason for Uraias'murder was that the Witiges clan had allied with non-Gothic barbarians, including the Rugii and probably Gepids, to conspire against Ildibad's rule.
• He was praetorian prefect ( chief minister ) under the successors of Theodoric : under Athalaric ( Theodoric's grandson, reigned 526 34 ) in 533 and, between 535 and 537, under Theodahad ( Theodoric's nephew, reigned 534 36 ) and Witiges ( Theodoric's grandson-in-law, reigned, 536 40 ).