Ildibad
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Ildibad (sometimes rendered Ildebad, Ildebadus, Hildebad, Hildibad or Heldebadus) (died 541) was a king of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in 540–541.
Key facts
- Monarch.name
- Ildibad
- Monarch.title
- King of the Ostrogoths
- Monarch.reign
- May 540May 541
- Monarch.predecessor
- Vitiges
- Monarch.successor
- Eraric
- Monarch.death_date
- 541
- Monarch.image
- Portret van Ildobaldo, RP-P-1909-6130.jpg
- Monarch.caption
- Engraving of Ildibad. From Emanuele Tesauro. ''Del regno d'Italia sotto i barbari''. Turin: Bartolomeo Zavatta, 1664, p. 36.
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- Image
- Portret van Ildobaldo, RP-P-1909-6130.jpg
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- date of death
- 0541-05-01
- date of birth
- 0450-00-00
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Ildibad (sometimes rendered Ildebad, Ildebadus, Hildebad, Hildibad or Heldebadus) (died 541) was a king of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in 540–541.
==Biography== Ildibad was a nephew of Theudis, an Ostrogoth king of the Visigoths in Spain. This relationship led Peter Heather to suggest that both belonged to a powerful, non-royal clan. In 540, the Ostrogothic king Witiges was taken prisoner by Belisarius in Ravenna. Ildibad's children were also taken prisoner. Ildibad was one of the Goths north of the Po river who still refused to surrender to Roman authority. Following Witiges' capture, however, Ildibad had attempted to negotiate terms of surrender with Belisarius, perhaps because of the fate of his children.