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Odoacer

Also known as Fl. Odovac, Flavius Odovacar, Odovacer, Odowac

Odoacer ( – 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who was an officer of the Roman army and deposed the Western Roman child emperor Romulus Augustulus to become the ruler of Italy (476–493). Odoacer's overthrow of Romulus Augustulus is traditionally understood as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire.

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Odoacer was a barbarian military officer who deposed the young Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD and ruled Italy until his death in 493 AD. His overthrow of the last Western Roman emperor is traditionally seen as the moment that marked the end of the Western Roman Empire.

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Royalty.name: Odoacer
Royalty.image: Coin of Odoacer at the British Museum (obverse).png
Royalty.caption: Coin of Odoacer minted in Ravenna, 477, with Odoacer in profile, depicted with a "barbarian" moustache
Royalty.succession: King of Italy
Royalty.reign: 4 September 476 –
Royalty.successor: Theodoric the Great
Royalty.death_date: 15 March 493 (aged about 60)
Royalty.death_place: Ravenna, Kingdom of Italy
Royalty.father: Edeko
Royalty.spouse: Sunigilda
Royalty.issue: Thela
Royalty.religion: Arian Christianity

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Commons category: Odoacer
date of birth: 0433-01-01
date of death: 0493-03-15
name in native language: Odoacer

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Contents

Origins
Name etymology
Father and brother
Ethnic affiliations
Before Italy
Leader of the ''foederati''
Reign
Fall and death
Later portrayals
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading

Although he ruled Italy, Odoacer styled himself a client of the Eastern emperor Zeno in Constantinople. He was addressed not only as but also as and patrician, the latter title granted by Zeno. In the sole surviving document from his chancery—and by the consul Basilius—Odoacer used the title of king. Backed by the Roman Senate, he distributed land with little resistance. Soldier unrest in 477–478 caused violence, but his later reign was stable. Though an Arian, he seldom interfered in the Trinitarian state church.