Witiges
Witiges, Vitiges (d.
540) was the
King of the
Ostrogoths from
536 to
540. He was the husband of
Amalasuntha's only surviving child, Mathesuntha. Witiges had
Theodahad murdered after the imprisonment and death of his Mother-in-Law,
Amalasuntha. General
Belisarius took both Witiges and Mathesuntha to Constantinople, and Witiges died there, without any children. After his death Mathesuntha married Germanus the patrician, a cousin of the Emperor
Justinian.