He ruled benevolently, becoming a patron of the arts and architecture and subsuming much of the Western Empire's administrative infrastructure into his own kingdom. After four years of war, Theoderic emerged victorious and in AD493, after murdering Odoacer at a banquet, assumed control of all Italy. However, although he was officially recognised by the Eastern Emperor Zeno as 'patrician', Imperial favour is fickle and Odoacer eventually came to be considered a rival claimant to the throne.Īs such, by AD488 the Ostrogothic king, Theoderic, had been contracted to depose and supplant him as the Emperor's man in Italy. In its place was the Kingdom of Italy, helmed by the victorious Germanic general, Flavius Odoacer. The Battle of Ravenna in AD476 - Rome's final humiliation - signalled the ignoble end of its Western Empire. The Ostrogothic Kingdom has succeeded where the Romans failed.
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