Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


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Bibliography
  1. Amory, Patrick, People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy 489-554. Cambridge: University Press, 1997. NYPL JFE 01-1466. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p[0-9]*].
  2. Burns, Thomas S, A History of the Ostrogoths, Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ Press, 1984. SF Library 940.1 B9375h. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burns Ostrogoths p[0-9]*].
  3. Previte-Orton, C. W., The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge: University Press, 1952. Reprinted with corrections 1960. Available at (part 1) http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149173 and (part 2) http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149602. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CMH p[0-9]*].
  4. Settipani, Christian, Continuite Gentilice et Continuite Familiale Dans Les Familles Senatoriales Romaines, A L'Epoque Imperiale, Mythe et Realite. Linacre, UK: Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2000. ILL. NYPL ASY (Rome) 03-983. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Settipani RomSen p[0-9]*].
  5. Wagner, Anthony, Pedigree and Progress, Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History, London, Philmore, 1975. Rutgers Alex CS4.W33. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #[0-9]*].

Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #28]
540 [Ref: CMH p132]
542 [Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p486, Burns Ostrogoths p97]
Sources with Information about marriage to Matasuentha
date:
[Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p452, Settipani RomSen p430]
first marriage of Matesuentha [Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p486, Burns Ostrogoths p97],
names:
[Ref: CMH p132, Wagner PedigreeProgress #28]
Research Notes:
536-9: King of Italy [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #28]
536-40: King of Ostrogoths [Ref: Burns Ostrogoths p97]

came from an obscure family; worked his way up to prominence via the army [Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p460]

504: first came to prominence fighting the Gepids near Sirmium [Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p460]

late 520s: repulsed a Gepid attempt to take back land hear Sirmium [Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p460]

became the "armiger" of Theodahadus, probably commander of his bodyguard [Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p460]

upon becomming king he forcably married the Amal princess Matasuentha, for the purpose of legitimating his rule [Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p460]

540: captured in Ravenna; treated with honor by Belisarius. Upon his arrival in Constantinople he was made patricus et comes, and died about two years later [Ref: Amory Ostrogoths p460]



Pedigree of Witigis King Of Italy
Witigis King Of Italy



Descendants of Witigis King Of Italy
1. Witigis King Of Italy m. Matasuentha
m. Matasuentha father: Eutharic Of Amal mother: Amalasuntha Queen Of Italy