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Theodoric is a Germanic
Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European languages language family. The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Pre-Roman Iron Age....
 given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
 frequently encountered in early medieval Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
. Variant spellings include forms such as Theoderic, Theudoric, Theuderic, or Theuderich. It is cognate with the Gothic
Gothic language

Gothic is an extinct language Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic languages with a sizable corpus....
 name Thiudreiks and comprised of the Germanic components şeud ("people") and ric ("power" or "ruler").

The German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 language form of the name is Dietrich
Dietrich

Dietrich is a German given and a family name, the German form of Theodoric.People * Albert Gottfried Dietrich , German botanist* Amalie Dietrich , German naturalist and museum collector...
; the English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, Derek
Derek

Derek is a male name of English and Old German origin, derived from the same root as the Old German Theodoric, meaning power of the tribe or ruler of the people....
; the Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
, Dirk
Dirk

Dirk is a Scots language word for a short dagger; sometimes a cut-down sword blade mounted on a dagger hilt, rather than a knife blade. The word dirk could have possibly derived from the Scottish Gaelic word sgian dearg , "dearg" [] shifting to "dirk" []....
, Diederik, or Dierik; the Norwegian
Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
, Tjodrik.






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Theodoric is a Germanic
Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European languages language family. The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Pre-Roman Iron Age....
 given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
 frequently encountered in early medieval Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
. Variant spellings include forms such as Theoderic, Theudoric, Theuderic, or Theuderich. It is cognate with the Gothic
Gothic language

Gothic is an extinct language Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic languages with a sizable corpus....
 name Thiudreiks and comprised of the Germanic components şeud ("people") and ric ("power" or "ruler").

The German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 language form of the name is Dietrich
Dietrich

Dietrich is a German given and a family name, the German form of Theodoric.People * Albert Gottfried Dietrich , German botanist* Amalie Dietrich , German naturalist and museum collector...
; the English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, Derek
Derek

Derek is a male name of English and Old German origin, derived from the same root as the Old German Theodoric, meaning power of the tribe or ruler of the people....
; the Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
, Dirk
Dirk

Dirk is a Scots language word for a short dagger; sometimes a cut-down sword blade mounted on a dagger hilt, rather than a knife blade. The word dirk could have possibly derived from the Scottish Gaelic word sgian dearg , "dearg" [] shifting to "dirk" []....
, Diederik, or Dierik; the Norwegian
Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
, Tjodrik. In Romance languages
Romance languages

The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages comprising all the languages that descend from Latin language, the language of ancient Rome....
, the French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 form is Thierry
Thierry

Thierry may refer to:* Thierry of Freburg, an early Dominican* Thierry, friend of Roland in the epic poem The Song of Roland.* Thierry I, Duke of Upper Lorraine ....
; the Italian and Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Teodorico. The name of the English Tudor royal dynasty
Tudor dynasty

The House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms from 1485 until 1603. Founded by Henry VII of England, who, though his paternal family was Welsh people ?his grandfather was Owen Tudor? was himself also a legitimized descendent of the royal House of Lancaster....
 is derived from the Welsh
Welsh language

Welsh ]], is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh Marches and in the Welsh settlement in Argentina in the Chubut Valley in Argentina Patagonia....
 Tudur, which is in turn probably derived from the Celtic
Celtic languages

The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic", a branch of the greater Indo-European languages language family. The term "Celtic" was used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, having much earlier been used by Greek and Roman writers to describe tribes in central Gaul....
 Teutorigos, which is cognate with Theodoric and carries much the same meaning.

The name is not to be confused with Theodore
Theodore (given name)

Theodore is an English masculine given name. It comes from the Greek language name Te?d???? meaning "gift of God" . The name was popular among early Christians and was borne by several saints....
, derived from the Greek Te?d???? (Theodoros), meaning 'Gift from God'.

Well-known bearers of the name Theodoric include:

  • Theodoric I
    Theodoric I

    Theodoric I, sometimes called Theodorid and in Spanish language, Portuguese language and Italian language Teodorico, was the King of the Visigoths from 418–451....
     (died 451), king of the Visigoths
  • Theodoric II
    Theodoric II

    Theodoric II murdered his elder brother Thorismund to become king of the Visigoths in 453. Edward Gibbon writes that "he justified this atrocious deed by the design which his predecessor had formed of violating his alliance with the empire." During Theodoric's reign the Kingdom of the Visigoths, centered in what is now Aquitaine, continued t...
     (died 466), king of the Visigoths
  • Theodoric the Great
    Theodoric the Great

    File:Theodoric bronze weight inlaid with silver issued by prefect Catulinus Rome 493 526.jpg'Theodoric the Great' , known in Latin as 'Flavius Theodericus' and in Greek sources, was king of the Ostrogoths , ruler of Italy , and regent of the Visigoths ....
     (454-526), ruler of the Ostrogoths, Italy, and the Visigoths
  • Theodoric Strabo
    Theodoric Strabo

    Theodoric Strabo was an Ostrogoth chieftain who was involved in the politics of the Byzantine Empire during the reigns of Byzantine Emperors Leo I , Zeno and Basiliscus....
     (died 481)
  • Theuderic I
    Theuderic I

    Theuderic I was the Merovingian king of Metz, Rheims, or Austrasia ? as it is variously called ? from 511 to 533 or 534.He was the son of Clovis I and one of his earlier wives or concubines....
     (died ca. 534), Frankish king
  • Theuderic II
    Theuderic II

    Theuderic II , king of Kingdom of Burgundy and Austrasia , was the second son of Childebert II. At his father's death in 595, he received Guntram's kingdom of Burgundy, with its capital at Orl?ans, while his elder brother, Theudebert II, received their father's kingdom of Austrasia, with its capital at Metz....
     (587-613), Frankish king
  • Theuderic III
    Theuderic III

    Theuderic III was the king of Neustria on two occasions and king of Austrasia from 679 to his death in 691. Thus, he was the king of all the Franks from 679....
     (died 691), king of the Franks
  • Theuderic IV
    Theuderic IV

    Theuderic IV or Theuderich, Theoderic, or Theodoric; in French language, Thierry was the Merovingian List of Frankish Kings from 721 until his death....
     (died 737), king of the Franks
  • Theodric of Bernicia
    Theodric of Bernicia

    Theodric ruled from 572 to 579. He was the fifth known ruler of the Anglo-Saxons kingdom of Bernicia.Theodric was the son of Ida of Bernicia, founder of the kingdom of Bernicia....
    , 6th century Anglo-Saxon king
  • Saint Tewdrig
    Tewdrig

    Tewdrig or Tewdrig ap Teithfallt was a king of the Sub-Roman Britain Glywysing. He abdicated in favour of his son Meurig ap Tewdrig and retired to live a hermitical life, but was recalled to lead his son's army against an intruding Anglo-Saxons force....
     (alternatively Tewdric or Theodoric) (c. 580 - c. 630), Welsh king of Gwent and Glywysing, who was martyred fighting the Saxons
  • Antipope Theodoric
    Antipope Theodoric

    Theodoric was an antipope in 1100 and 1101.Antipope Clement III died on September 8, 1100. His followers in Rome met secretly at night in St. Peter's Basilica and elected and enthroned Cardinal Teodorico, the Bishop of Albano, who then went by the name of Theodoric....
     (died 1102)
  • Theodoric of Chartres
    Thierry of Chartres

    Thierry of Chartres or Theodoric the Breton was a twelfth-century philosophy working at Chartres and Paris, France.The cathedral school at Chartres promoted scholarship before the first university was founded in France....
     (12th century), philosopher
  • Theodoric of Freiberg
    Theodoric of Freiberg

    Theodoric of Freiberg was a Germany member of the Dominican order and a theology and physicist. He was named Provincial superior of the Dominican Order in 1293, Albert the Great's old post....
     (14th century), theologian and scientist
  • Theodoric of York
    Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber

    Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber was a recurring comedy sketch comedy on the United States television show Saturday Night Live during the late 1970s....
    , Saturday Night Live character by Steve Martin
  • Theoderich (Bishop of Estonia), 13th century bishop