Kingdom of Odoacer
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The Kingdom of Odoacer, officially known as the Kingdom of Italy, was a barbarian kingdom that was founded with the deposition of the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, at the Battle of R
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Odoacer
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Odoacer, 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 August
Kingdom of Odoacer
…deposition of the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, at the Battle of Ravenna in 476. The battle resulted in the self-proclamation as Rex by Odoacer. The creation of the kingdom traditionally marks the end of the Western Roman Empire. Odoacer's kingdom lasted until the assassination of Odoacer by…
Latin memorial plate from 1521, that mentions Odoacer as Rex Rhutenorum (Petersfriedhof, Salzburg)
Romulus Augustus resigns the Crown (from a 19th-century illustration).
An early illustration of a mythologized Theodoric killing Odoacer in a joust; from the Chronica Theodericiana (1181)