Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GZ7H-6R4
• Appointments / Titles: Between 520 and 548; King the Gepids

Notes:

Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

C. GEPIDS

Jordanes states that the Gepids were a sub-group of the Goths, recounting that during the migration from Scandinavia their ship was the slowest, their name being derived from "gepanta" meaning "sluggish ones". The Gepids migrated southwards and settled east of the river Tisza in present-day Hungary. By the 370s, they had fallen under the domination of the Huns. After fighting as Hun allies at the battle of the Catalaunian Fields in 451, their leader Ardaric defeated Ellac, son of Attila, at the battle of Nedao river in 454.

The Ostrogoths defeated a Gepid, Rugian and Scythian alliance at the river Bolia in 469, but in 471 the Gepids captured Sirmium, in territory conquered by the Ostrogoths on their way into Italy. The Gepids recaptured Sirmium under king Elemund. The Lombards conquered the Gepid kingdom in the mid-6th century. Little detailed information has been found relating to the Gepid rulers.

1. TURISIND . Paulus Diaconus records the death of "Turisindus rex Gepidorum"[66]. Turisind had one child:
a) TURISMOD . Paulus Diaconus names "Turismodus, Turisindi filius"[67].

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The History Files

Elemund or Gelemund – 520/530? – 548 king of the Gepids probably in Transylvania. He had one daughter, Austrigusa, who was married to the Lombard King Wacho, while his son, Ustrigoth, sometimes referred to as female sometimes as a male, at the death of his father, having had a usurper seize the throne, calls the Lombards for help.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. of the Gepidae, Austrigusa was born in 505; died in 540 in Sremska Mitrovica, Srem, Vojvodina, Serbia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Kingdom of the East Franks; King of the Gepids
• FSID: G8V7-5TC