"Eutharic, who married Amalasuentha...begat Athalaric and Mathesuentha. Athalaric died in the years of his childhood, and Mathesuentha married
Vitiges, to whom she bore no child. Both of them were taken together by
Belisarius to
Constantinople. When Vitiges passed from human affairs,
Germanus the patrician, a cousin of the Emperor
Justinian, took Mathesuentha in marriage and made her a Patrician Ordinary. And of her he begat a son, also called Germanus. But upon the death of Germanus, she determined to remain a widow."[4]
According to
Patrick Amory, she was forced to marry Witigis after the murder of her mother, and her cousin
Theodahadus.[5]
Her son Germanus was born following the death of his father (late 550/early 551). Nothing further is known of him with certainty, although he can possibly be identified with the patriciusGermanus, a leading senator in the reign of Emperor
Maurice (r. 582–602). Germanus' daughter married Maurice's eldest son Theodosius.[6][7] Michael Whitby identifies the younger Germanus with
Germanus, a son-in-law of
Tiberius II Constantine and
Ino Anastasia.[8]
^Philip Grierson, "Matasuntha or Mastinas: A Reattribution", The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, Sixth Series 19 (1959), pp. 119–130.
^Patrick Amory, People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554, page 452.
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