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Thurisind (Latin: ''Turisindus'', died c. 560) was king of the Gepids, an East Germanic Gothic people, from c. 548 to 560. He was the penultimate Gepid king, and succeeded King Elemund by staging a coup d'état and forcing the king's son into exile. Thurisind's kingdom, known as Gepidia, was located in Central Europe and had its centre in Sirmium, a former Roman city on the Sava River (now the town of Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia). His reign was marked by multiple wars with the Lombards, a Germanic people who had arrived in the former Roman province of Pannonia under the leadership of their king, Audoin. Thurisind also had to face the hostility of the Byzantine Empire, which was resentful of the Gepid takeover of Sirmium and anxious to diminish Gepid power in the Pannonian Basin, a plain covering most of modern Hungary and partly including the bordering states. The Byzantines' plans to reduce the Gepids' power took effect when Audoin decisively defeated Thurisind in 551 or 552. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian forced a peace accord on both leaders so that equilibrium in the Pannonian Basin could be sustained. Thurisind lost his eldest son, Turismod, in the Battle of Asfeld, during which the prince was killed by Alboin, son of Audoin. In about 560, Thurisind died and was succeeded by his remaining son Cunimund, who was killed by Alboin in 567. Cunimund's death marked the end of the Gepid Kingdom and the beginning of the conquest of their territories by the Lombards' allies, the Avars, a nomadic people migrating from the Eurasian Steppe. == Early sources == Of the four early medieval sources relevant to Thurisind that survive,〔Martindale 1992, ''s.v. Turisindus'', pp. 1345–1346〕 the only one providing independent evidence of the king, accounts of Justinian's wars, and a detailed account of the relations between Gepids and Lombards and their kings is ''De Bellis'' (550s), the most important work of Procopius.〔Baldwin 1991, p. 1732〕〔Bullough 1991, p. 109〕 Considered the greatest historian of the 6th century, Procopius was a Greek writer born in Caesarea in Palestine in 527.〔Tate 2004, pp. 857–858〕 The Lombard–Gepid wars are well described in Procopius' work, as the conflict played an important part in the Byzantine plans to invade Italy by a land route.〔Pohl 2000, p. 143〕 Less relevant is the other 6th-century source, Jordanes' ''Romana''. Of Gothic ancestry, Jordanes served as a notarius for a Byzantine Master of the Soldiers before entering into the ranks of the Catholic clergy and writing his two surviving books, the ''Romana'' and the ''Getica''. The latter is a summary of Gothic history, while the lesser known ''Romana'' is an abridged account of Roman history written in 551 or 552. According to James O'Donnell, the two works share a pessimistic view of human life in which all secular accomplishments are insignificant compared to religious goals.〔Martindale 1992, ''s.v. Iordanes (1)'', pp. 713–714〕〔O'Donnell 1982, pp. 223–240〕 Jordanes does not explicitly mention Thurisind in the ''Romana'', but speaks of the third Lombard–Gepid War, in which Thurisind participated, in the last passages of the work.〔Bullough 1991, pp. 108–109〕 Paul the Deacon was the most important Italian writer of the 8th century.〔Goffart 1988, p. 329〕 Born in the 720s or 730s, he came from a noble Lombard family from Friuli. He entered the clergy early, and eventually became a monk of the monastery of Monte Cassino. His most famous work is the ''Historia Langobardorum'', a history of the Lombard nation. Written after 787, it is a continuation of his previous major historical work, the ''Historia Romana'', which was based on the ''Breviarium'' of Eutropius, with six books added describing historical events up to Justinian's empire.〔〔Pizarro 2003, p. 70〕 Both of these works mention Thurisind and the third Lombard–Gepid War, which represent the only overlap between the ''Historia Langobardorum'' and the ''Historia Romana''. Both books also mention the duel between the kings' sons, an event which is absent in Procopius' writing and is thought to have originated through oral tradition.〔Bullough 1991, p. 108〕 Similarly, the meeting between Thurisind and Audoin's son at the former's court derives from an oral source.〔Goffart 1988, p. 387〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thurisind」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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