Theodahad

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Coin of Theodahad.

Another coin of Theodahad (534-536), minted in Rome. He wears the barbaric moustache.

Theodahad (died 536) was the King of the Ostrogoths from 534 to 536 and a nephew of Theodoric the Great through his sister. He might have arrived in Italy with Theodoric and was an elderly man at the time of his succession. Witiges ordered him killed, and succeeded him as king.

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