Theodoric
King of the Ostrogoths; demir, King of the Ostrogoths of Pannonia. From his eighth to his 18th year Leo at Constantinople. Two years after he lived as a hostage with the Emperor his return he succeeded to the throne. In Theodoric induced Odoacer, who had as- 493 after several bloody engagements, sumed the title of King of Italy, to grant Odoacer at a banquet soon after opened him equal authority. The murder of the way for Theodoric to have himself proclaimed sole ruler. Theodoric ruled ability. Though, like his ancestors, he was an Arian, he or privileges of na, Italy, Aug. 30, 526. the Catholic Church. He died in Raven- THEODORIC I., Ki goths , succeeded Wallia in 420. During King of the Visi- Romans three times, and attempted to the interval 426-436, he made war on the take the city of Narbonne . He obtained territory both in Spain and Gaul, and subsequently became the ally of the Ro- , whom he defeated at Châlons-sur-Marne in 451, but lost his life in the battle.
His son Thorismund succeeded him.
I., acquired the throne by the murder of THEODORIC II., son of Theodoric his brother Thorismund in himself killed by Euric, another of the sons of Theodoric I.
During his short in 452, but was reign he increased the empire of the THEODORIC II.
Visigoths, and advanced almost as far as the Loire. He was killed in 466.
THEODORUS. See THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA..
THEODOSIUS I., THE GREAT to his native farm, whence he was summoned by Gratian to become his colleague in the purple and emperor in the East (379). It was a critical time. The Goths, too numerous and formidable to be attacked en masse, flushed, too, with their recent Cannæ like victory at Adrianople and the total defeat of his predecessor Valens, were roaming the country at will. His military reputation was equal to the strain. He made Thessalonica his headquarters, and within four years broke up the vast Gothic army, attached many of its members to the empire as faithful soldiers and allies, and restored tranquillity to the troubled country S. of the Danube. THEODORUS STUDITA (THEODORE OF STUDIUM: SAINT), a Greek theological writer, abbot of Studium, was born A.D. 759 at Constantinople. He became head of the monastery of Saccudium in Bithynia, was banished to Thessalonica soon afterward for having excommunicated Constantine VI, but was recalled after the emperor's death in 797. At the monastery of Studium in Constantinople, he then became the leader of a campaign in favor of asceticism and monastic reforms. He opposed the iconoclasts (see ICONOCLAST), was involved in many ecclesiastical controversies and was banished and recalled several times during the years 809-824. He finally left Constantinople and lived at various monasteries in Bithynia, on Chalcitis and on the peninsula of Tryphon near Acrita, where he died, November 11, 826. His Letters, Catecheses, and various discourses are among his most important works. He was famous for his industry in copying manuscripts. peror in Britain, and the arrival of Va- THEODORUS I., Pope, succeeded lentinian II. (with his mother Justina John IV. in 642. He excommunicated Paulus, patriarch of Constantinople, and condemned the heresy of the Monothelites. His successor was Martin I. He died in 649.
THEODORUS II., succeeded Romanus in 898, but died in less than a month after his election.