Edeko, Chief of the Scirii

Edeko was for some time the chief of the Scirii. In the middle of the 5th century the Scirii were a Germanic Tribe and vassals of the Huns. Edeko was a famous person at the court of Attila. 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.

Edeko was the father of Odoacer, who became a magister militum in the Roman Army and king of Italy.

According to a reconstruction by Stephan Krautschick, Odoacer and Onoulphus were brothers of Flavius Armatus, so they were also nephews of Basiliscus and Empress Verina and Edeko must have been married to a sister of Verina.

Sources

Krautschick, Stephan (1986). "Zwei Aspekte des Jahres 476". Historia 35: pp. 344–371.

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