Dagistheus ( 479) was an

Ostrogothic The Ostrogoths ( la, Ostrogothi, Austrogothi) were a Roman-era Germanic people. In the 5th century, they followed the Visigoths in creating one of the two great Gothic kingdoms within the Roman Empire, based upon the large Gothic populations who ...

chieftain. The name is Germanic.

Theodoric the Great Theodoric (or Theoderic) the Great (454 – 30 August 526), also called Theodoric the Amal ( got, , *Þiudareiks; Greek: , romanized: ; Latin: ), was king of the Ostrogoths (471–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy b ...

(r. 474–526) sent Dagistheus and Soas as hostages to Adamantius in

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in 479. He was presumably a leading Ostrogothic chieftain under Theodoric. The Roman baths in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

were possibly named after him. He may have been an ancestor of the later

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

general

Dagisthaeus Dagisthaeus (, ''Dagisthaîos'') was a 6th-century Eastern Roman military commander, probably of Gothic origin, in the service of the emperor Justinian I. Dagisthaeus was possibly a descendant of the Ostrogothic chieftain Dagistheus.* In 548, Da ...

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*{{cite book, first1=Arnold Hugh Martin, last1=Jones, first2=John Robert , last2=Martindale, first3=J. , last3=Morris, title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5W6vCO_pYUC&pg=PA341, year=1980, publisher=Cambridge University Press, isbn=978-0-521-20159-9, pages=341– 5th-century Ostrogothic people 5th-century Byzantine people