The Army in the Byzantine Empire
Introduction
In the year 454 the ostrogods were installed in the plains of Panonia after the death of Atila. Panonia was an area which was under the control of the Byzantine Empire, but the Martian emperor allowed them to settle in that territory as federated of the Empire, whose work would consist of defending existing borders. In the year 461 Emperor Leo I decided not to send the annual payments to the ostrogods of the faction of the Amales whose headquarters fell to three brothers, Walamiro, Teodomiro and Widemiro.
Developing
King Walamiro tried by peaceful means that Emperor Leo I paid his annual delivery again. However, when he understood that the emperor had no intention of doing so, he began organizing looting and pillagas in the Iliria region, the emperor could not cope with this conflict, so he resumed deliveries and paid the delays. On the part of the ostrogods they had to commit to defend the borders of the Empire, and Teodomircompliance with ostrogods on their part of the agreement.
In the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Theodoric came into contact with the Greco -Roman culture, learned to read, to write, also formed in the history and politics of the empire, these knowledge would be very useful throughout his life. After 10 years in Constantinople, he was allowed to return to Theodoric with his own. At that time, King Walamiro had died and had been happened by Teodomiro, Theodoric’s father, who when his son returned was far fighting.
Theodoric then gathered an army and was obtaining several military victories against the Sarmatics and other ostrogod features, in this way the good military formation he had received during his stay as a hostage could be appreciated. These victories quickly helped him obtain respect and prestige, in addition to the support of the other noble and the army. In 474 theodomir and theodoric dies is appointed as its successor. That same year the Emperor León also died, which Zenón succeeded which was replaced by a rebellion organized by Basilisco.
Teodorico supported Emperor Zenón for what in two years got Basilisco to be dethroned and Zenon could return to Constantinople. Once the Zenon control was recovered, as a sample of gratitude to Theodoric. Later Theodoric Estrabón nicknamed "El Bizco" who was an ostrogodo chief who had been looting the territory of Thrace, had difficulty feeding his army so he asked the peace to Emperor Zenón.
The emperor understood this gesture as a sign of weakness for what faced him, but his attempt to eliminate the Army of Strabons failed and Zenón had no choice but to ask Theodoric for help. The theodoric started to Thrace where he would face Strabons with the help of the Byzantine army, however, that army or never came. So theodoric and strobon allied and marched to attack the Byzantines. Zenon quickly bribe to Strabo, who went to his side, while Teodorico attacked key places of the empire.
In the year 481 a rebellion broke out in one of the neighborhoods of Constantinople, headed by two generals called Iillo and Romulo. Estrabón joined the rebels in a failed attempt to take Constantinople, however, shortly after he died accidentally, since he fell from his horse on a spearhead by providing him with a mortal wound. Finally, theodoric now reinforced by the stroll troops which had joined him undertook and suffocus the uprising originated by the Roman generals in this way.
Zenón rewarded Teodorico with an equestrian statue in Constantinople. But very soon the emperor and the king faced each other again, and the ostrogods took arms and began looting the Constantinople neighborhood. In this way they agreed an agreement that benefited both parties. Zenón granted him permission to go to Italy and occupy the lands of odoacro king of the Hérulos, and establish himself there as representative of the emperor, in this way he got rid of the ostrogods. After a series of internal conflicts within the Roman Empire of the West.
ODOACRO Chief of the Hérulos which were part of the Roman auxiliary army and who also acted as mercenaries in their campaigns. Flavio Orestes, German origin aristocrat had usurped the throne to Julio Nepote. Orestes knowing that his action would not be well seen by the Roman Empire of the East, he places his son Romulo Augusto who was just a child as an empire emperor. To preserve Orestes Power recruits German mercenaries.
However, things are complicated when it runs out of resources and refuses to give the land required by these. It is then that Odoacro leading the Hérulos, the Esciros, the alans and the roars rises and in the year 476 overtholes the last emperor of the Roman Empire of the West, taking the control of the territory itself. It is then, in the year 488 in which the Ostrogodo people headed by Theodoric.
Next to the Ostrogodo Army accompanying them during the journey they took their families, along with their possessions and their cattle, it is estimated that the figure of that journey was made up of about 200.Approximately 000 people. Along the way the ostrogods had to deal with some war conflicts against various peoples, which exceeded without much difficulty and after crossing the Alps, they arrived in Italy which was controlled by Odoacro. Between 489 and 490 Odoacro was defeated three times: in Aquilea (489), in Verona (490) and on the banks of the Adda River (490).
conclusion
It is believed that the ostrogods allied with the bourgeois and the Visigoth. In Ravena, he held a long siege that lasted three years, however, in 493 he was forced to deliver the city and reached an agreement with theodoric in which both would be shared and governed equally Italy. However, shortly after theodoric would accuse Odoacro of betrayal and send him execute.
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