Onoulphus
Roman general of Scirian origin
435 CE to 493 CE
Onoulphus, also Onoulf, Unulf and Hunulf (died 493) is a general of the late fifth century of Scirian origin.
He serves as magister militum per Illyricum from 477 to 479 as a general of the Eastern Roman Empire, then afterwards is a general for his brother Odoacer, king of Italy, until their death.
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Feletheus is the son of Flaccitheus, king of the Rugii and founder of the Kingdom of the Rugii; his brother is Ferderuchus.
Feletheus is married to the Goth Gisa, who is probably the cousin of the Amal Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great.
After the death of his father, probably in 475, Feletheus had succeeded his father as king of the Rugii.
Their territory at the time was based in Lower Austria.
In 476, Feletheus had supported Odoacer and his Scirian and Herulian in overthrow of the Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus.
Feletheus is a close confidant of Severinus of Noricum.
After the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno attempts to create conflict between the Rugii and Odoacer, Feletheus executes his brother Ferderuchus, who supported Odoacer.
Odoacer subsequently invades the Kingdom of the Rugii in 487, dealing them a crushing defeat in their own territory and taking Feletheus and his wife into captivity, later executing them in Ravenna.
When word comes that Feletheus' son, Fredericus, had returned to his people, Odoacer sends his brother Onoulphus with an army back to Noricum against him.
Onoulphus finds it necessary to evacuate the remaining Romans from the ravaged territory and resettles them in Italy.
The Lombards, migrating south from the upper Elbe, settle the abandoned Rugian territory in 493.
The war between Odoacer and Theodoric has caused untold damage in northern Italy to city and countryside alike.
Onoulphus, brother of Odoacer, is killed during the siege of Ravenna by archers while seeking refuge in a church.
Odoacer, blockaded in Ravenna by an Ostrogothic fleet, agrees to an armistice with Theodoric on February 27, 493, and concludes a treaty by which he and Theodoric will rule Italy jointly.
Odoacer admits Theodoric into the impregnable city on March 5, 493.
At the successful conclusion of peace talks with the Ostrogoths, Odoacer and his son and chiefs attend a banquet held ten days later in the palace of Lauretum.
Two Goths, pretending to be suppliants, suddenly seize Odoacer by the hands, and Theodoric cuts him down with a sword, skillfully slicing his body in half in full view of his guests.
Theodoric goes on to murder the dead man's wife and son and to massacre his followers remorselessly throughout northern Italy.
Theodoric is proclaimed the sole ruler of Italy, although he receives no official recognition from Constantinople.
He steadily consolidates his rule and provides security for the local population, effecting the transformation of Italy from being the center of a fractured Roman Empire to a successful and independent Ostrogothic Kingdom.
Theodoric allies with the Franks and marries Audofleda, sister of Clovis I.
He also marries his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Burgundians, Vandals and Visigoths, establishing a political alliance with the Germanic kingdoms of the West.