Boethius was born around 480, but his…

Xuanwu's concubine Consort Hu gives birth in 510 to a son, Yuan Xu.

Because Xuanwu has lost multiple sons in childhood by this point, he carefully selects several experienced mothers to serve as Yuan Xu's wet nurses, and disallows both Gao and Hu from seeing him.

The Ghassanid emigration, as passed down in the rich oral tradition of Syria, Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon, originated in the city of Ma'rib in Yemen.

There was a dam in this city; however, one year there was so much rain that the dam was carried away by the ensuing flood.

Thus the people there had to leave.

The inhabitants emigrated seeking to live in less arid lands and became scattered far and wide.

The proverb “They were scattered like the people of Saba” refers to that exodus in history.

The emigrants were from the southern Arab tribe of Azd of the Kahlan branch of Qahtani tribes.

Another version of the story refers also to the persecution of the Christian tribes in Ancient Yemen by its rulers and the powerful Jewish tribes.

A reference to that is mentioned in the Quran about "As-haab al-ukhdood" where many Christians were buried alive in mass graves.

Those who were able to flee headed north settling in what is today south of The Levant.

The date of the migration to Syria is unclear; their earliest appearance in records is dated to 473, when their chief, Amorkesos, signed a treaty with the Eastern Roman Empire acknowledging their status as foederati controlling parts of Palestine.

He apparently became a Christian at this time; by around 510, the Ghassanids are no longer Chalcedonian, but Monophysite.

The king Jafna bin ‘Amr had emigrated with his family and retinue north and settled in Hauran, where the Ghassanid state was founded.

From him the Ghassanid line are also sometimes known as the Jafnids.

It is assumed that the Ghassanids adopted the religion of Christianity after they reached their new home.

The Romans had found a powerful ally in the new coming Arabs.

The Ghassanid kingdom serves as the buffer zone against the Lakhmids penetrating Roman territory.

In addition, as kings of their own people, they are also phylarchs, native rulers of client frontier states.

The capital is at Jabiyah in the Golan Heights.

Geographically, it occupies much of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and its authority extends via tribal alliances with other Azdi tribes all the way to the northern Hijaz as far south as Yathrib (Medina).

The Empire is focused more on the East and a long war with the Persians is always their main concern.

The Ghassanids maintain their rule as the guardian of trade routes, police Lakhmid tribes and are a source of troops for the Imeprial army.

Isidore of Seville provides a hint that Gundobad had exploited the Visigothic defeat at Vouillé by plundering Narbonne.

Delayed by the threat of the Imperial Navy, which had been hovering off the Italian shore around the time of the battle, the Ostrogothic army arrives to relieve the Burgundian siege of Arles, heroically defended by its inhabitants with the assistance of the Ostrogothic general Theudis.

Theodoric, in assuming control of Italy, employs such able Roman administrators as Liberius and Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus.

A patron of the arts, Theodoric enlists support of influential Romans, including his friend and advisor Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, a descendant of an ancient Roman family.

Orphaned at an early age and classically educated in Latin and Greek.

Boethius becomes a Roman consul in 510.

Macedonius II is deposed by Emperor Anastasius as patriarch of Constantinople and replaced the following day by Timothy I.

Riots erupt in 511 in the streets of Antioch between supporters of patriarch Flavian II and emperor Anastasius I in sympathy of Non-Chalcedonianism.

The Ostrogoths overrun Provence and consolidate their gains in the region.

According to Herwig Wolfram, the Burgundians were "the real victims of the Ostrogothic counteroffensive" following the defeat of their cousins at Vouillé.

"Not only had they lost all their conquered territories and hope of acquiring Arles and Avignon but all their territory as far as Orange had been devastated.”

Visigothic nobles had spirited the heir of Alaric II, the child-king Amalaric, first to Narbonne, which was the last Gothic outpost in Gaul, and further across the Pyrenees into Hispania.

The center of Visigothic rule shifts initially to Barcelona.

The Visigoths are ruled from 511 by Theoderic of the Ostrogoths as de jure regent for the young Amalaric.

Theodoric sends his sword bearer, Theudis, to govern the Visigothic kingdom during the minority of Amalaric.

Visigothic king Gesalec, driven from the throne by Theodoric of the Ostrogoths, finds a refuge in Carthage from the Vandal king Thrasamund.

The Vandal king supports his cause, providing him money and men, and in 510 and 511 the Vandal navy supports Gesalec's invasion of Spain.

However, after receiving some stern letters from Theodoric, Thrasamund recognizes he is no match for the Ostrogoths and withdraws his support for Gesalec, offering an apology and gold to Theodoric.