Edeko

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Edeko was for some time the chief of the Scirii. He was the father of Odoacer, who became a magister militum in the Roman Army and king of Italy.^[1]

In the middle of the 5th century the Scirii were a Germanic Tribe and vassals of the Huns, and Edeko was a famous person at the court of Attila,^[1] in the same way Ardarik, the king of the Gepids, was. According to written sources he protected Attila with his life. In the Battle of Châlons Edeko fought by the side of the Huns.

Following the destruction of the Sciri, who had been incited to break their treaty with the Ostrogoths by Hunimund, king of the Swabians, Edeko, with his son Onoulphus, joined the Swabian side in the Battle of Bolia in the late 460s, where they were again defeated by the Ostrogoths under their king Theodemir.^[2]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Priscus, fragments 7 and 8, translated by C.D Gordon, The Age of Attila: Fifth Century Byzantium and the Barbarians (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1966), pp. 70 - 93
↑ Jordanes, Getica, 274-279. Translated by Charles C. Mierow, The Gothic History of Jordanes, second edition, 1915 (Cambridge: Speculum Historiale, 1966), pp. 130-132. Odoacer is not mentioned as being present in this battle.

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