Vidimir the Younger

From the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy page on Hungary:

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#_Toc146273199

VIDIMIR (-473, Ostrogoth Generation 13).

Iordanes names "Thiudemer et Valamir et Vidimir" as the sons of Vandilarius[62].

King of the Ostrogoths in Pannonia, subordinate to his brother Valamir, he ruled over the central part of their domain which covered upper Slavonia. Iordanes names "Theodemir" when recording that he succeeded his brother "Valamero rege Gothorum" together with "Vidimero fratre et filio Theodorico"[63].

When the Ostrogoths left Pannonia in [473], Vidimir went into Italy where he suffered several defeats.

a) VIDIMIR (Ostrogoth Generation 14)

Iordanes records that "Vidimero cum Vidimero filio" were sent to "partes Hesperias" by Theodemir[64].

After his father's death, Emperor Glycerius sent Vidimir and his contingent of Pannonian Ostrogoths to Gaul, where he settled in the Limousin[65].

References:

[62] Iordanes Getarum, MGH Auct. ant. V.1, p. 77.

[63] Iordanes Romanorum, MGH Auct. ant. V.1, p. 44.

[64] Iordanes Romanorum, MGH Auct. ant. V.1, p. 45.

[65] Wolfram, H. (1998) History Of The Goths (Berkeley, California), p. 268.

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From Jordanes' Getica, as displayed on Boudicca's Bard:

http://www.boudicca.de/jordanes4-e.htm

LVI

(283) Then as the spoil taken from one and another of the neighboring tribes diminished, the Goths began to lack food and clothing, and peace became distasteful to men for whom war had long furnished the necessaries of life. So all the Goths approached their king Thiudimerand, with great outcry, begged him to lead forth his army in whatsoever direction he might wish. He summoned his brother and, after casting lots, bade him go into the country of Italy, where at this time Glycerius ruled as emperor, saying that he himself as the mightier would go to the east against a mightier empire. And so it happened.

(284) Thereupon Vidimer entered the land of Italy, but soon paid the last debt of fate and departed from earthly affairs, leaving his son and namesake Vidimer to succeed him. The Emperor Glycerius bestowed gifts upon Vidimer and persuaded him to go from Italy to Gaul, which was then harassed on all sides by various races, saying that their own kinsmen, the Visigoths, there ruled a neighboring kingdom. And what more? Vidimer accepted the gifts and, obeying the command of the Emperor Glycerius, pressed on to Gaul. Joining with his kinsmen the Visigoths, they again formed one body, as they had been long ago. Thus they held Gaul and Spain by their own right and so defended them that no other race won the mastery there.

From the "History of the Goths" by Herwig Wolfram and Thomas J. Dunlap:

http://books.google.cl/books?id=xsQxcJvaLjAC&pg=PA188&lpg=PA188&dq=...

The Last Battles with the Empire:

The Visigothic armies had just won great victories in Spain and were still fighting in the Auvergne when Emperor Glycerius unintentionally sent much-needed reinforcements to Gaul. Italy had in 473 suffered an Ostrogothic invasion. The attackers came from Pannonia and were led by the Amal king Vidimir. He died shortly after his arrival in Italy, whereupon the son Vidimir the Younger inherited the army but not his father's kingship.[145] This group, which had split off from the main Ostrogothic tribe and which fought unsuccessfully in Italy after the death of its king, raised no opposition when the Emperor got rid of them by sending them off to join the Visigoths.[146]

Their leader - like his predecessor Videric in 427 - was no serious threat to the King of Toulouse.[147] But just to be safe, Euric kept some of his Pannonian cousins within sight among his retainers [148], while others received border patrol duties along the Loire.[149] After 485, we probably hear of Vidimir (the Younger) on two other occasions. Bishop Ruricus of Limoges exchanged letters with a member of the high nobility by the name of Vittamar and sent him and his wife each 100 pears. The shipment of such a perishable gift would point to Limousin as the place where Vidimir settled, provided we are right in identifying him with Vittamar.[150]

References:

145. Jordanes, Getica 283 f. cf. 199, 252 f., 268, 270, 278, pp. 131, 169, 123, 127 f., and 130. Jordanes, Romana 347, p. 45, calls Thiudimir and Vidimr "utrique reges". Cf. Claude, "Konigserhebungen," 153. See Martindale, Prosopography 2:1164 f. (Vidimir 1 and 2), and below 334 n. 61.

146. Jordanes, Romana 347, p.45. See esp.: Vidimer (sc. filius) ab Italis proeliis victus ad partes Galliae Spaniaeque omissa Italia tendit, and Getica 284, p. 131. Wenskus, Stammesbildung, 481.

147. Stroheker, Eurich, 74 with n. 47, on the question of whether Vidimir could have formed "a counterweight against the Visigoths in Gaul." Cf. chap. 5, n. 63 ff.

148. Cf. Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae VIII 9.5 vv. 36 f., p. 137.

149. On the Amal names, see below, n. 530

150. Jordanes (as n. 146), Ruricius of Limoges, Epistulae II 60 (61) and 62 (63), p. 349 (439 f.), Martindale, Prosopography 2:1165 and 1178. On Ruricius, see Stroheker, Adel, 209 i. n. 327, as well as Schaferdiek, Die Kirchen der Westgoten, 57.

190. On the expression cf. below, n. 307. On the toopic, see Schaferdiek, Die Kirchen der Westgoten, 8 ff. Stroheker, Eurich, 36 ff. On the designation of the Gothic king as lord of the Romans, see below n. 266. The examples for the rule of the Gothic king over the Arian church and its dignitaries, though not numerous, are nevertheless unambiguous. Fritigern sends a Gothic-Arian dignitary to negotiate with Valens before the battle (Ammianus Marcellinus XXXI 12.8 f.). Revealing is also the misunderstanding of an act of cooperation between Fritigern and Ulfilas in Sozomenus VI 37.6 ff. Sigesar, "the bishop of the Goths," baptized the usurper Attalus and thereby makes him "beloved by everyone and by Alaric" (Sozemenus IX 9.1). The same bishop tries - if in vain - to protect Athaulf's children against Sigeric. The new king forces him to hand them over (Olympiodorus fr. 26). Theodoric (II) send the Arian missionary Ajax to the Suevi (Hydatius 232, a. 466). The same Gothic king and "his priests" (sacerdotes sui), probably the Arian court priests, are described by Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae I 2.4, p. 3. Yet Modaharius, civis Gothus, haereseos Arianae iacula vibrans (ibid. VII 6.2, p. 108), was probably not an envoy of Euric (cf. Schaferdiek, Die Kirchen der Westgoten, 29). For Euric's general rule over the church, i.e., over both the Gothic as well as the Roman church, one cites esp. CE 306 and 335; cf. Schaferdiek, Die Kirchen der Westgoten, 16 f.

334. Wolfram, "Gotische Studien 1," 10 n. 44 and 21 f.; II, 322 ff. and III, 255 with n. 190, esp. after Passio s. Sabae, chaps. 1 ff., pp. 216 ff., Socrates IV 33 f., and Sozomenus VI 37.6 ff. Cf. above n. 190 and n.307.