Guntheric (Gepid king)

Guntheric was the king or leader of a band of Gepids in alliance with another group under Thrasaric.¹

In 489, after Thraustila's death at the Battle of Sirmium against the Ostrogoths, the Kingdom of the Gepids effectively split in two - the south went on to be ruled by Thrasaric under Ostrogothic suzerainty, while Guntheric took control of the territories north of the Danube.²³ After the Ostrogothic campaign of 504, Guntheric disappears from the sources and fades into obscurity.

The Gepids were reunited under a single political entity under Guntheric's successor, Elemund, who ascended to the throne in the early half of the 6th century.⁴

References

Martindale, John R., ed. (1980). "Guntheric". The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume II, AD 395–527. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 522. ISBN 0-521-20159-4.
Mészáros, Balázs (2024-05-15). "A Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum 2022. évi régészeti kiadványai". Folia Archaeologica (58). doi:10.62259/pdln9039. hdl:10831/113888. ISSN 0133-2023.
Last, Helmut (2013). Die Außenpolitik Theoderichs des Großen. Norderstedt: Books on Demand. ISBN 978-3-7322-4318-1.
"II. FROM DACIA TO ERDŐELVE: TRANSYLVANIA IN THE PERIOD OF THE GREAT MIGRATIONS (271-896) (István Bóna)". mek.oszk.hu. Retrieved 2025-09-18.

[1] Martindale, John R., ed. (1980). "Guntheric". The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume II, AD 395–527. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 522. ISBN 0-521-20159-4.

[2] Mészáros, Balázs (2024-05-15). "A Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum 2022. évi régészeti kiadványai". Folia Archaeologica (58). doi:10.62259/pdln9039. hdl:10831/113888. ISSN 0133-2023.

[3] Last, Helmut (2013). Die Außenpolitik Theoderichs des Großen. Norderstedt: Books on Demand. ISBN 978-3-7322-4318-1.

[4] "II. FROM DACIA TO ERDŐELVE: TRANSYLVANIA IN THE PERIOD OF THE GREAT MIGRATIONS (271-896) (István Bóna)". mek.oszk.hu. Retrieved 2025-09-18.

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