Witiges or Vitiges (d. 540) was the king of the Ostrogoths from 536 to 540. He was the husband of Amalasuntha's only surviving child, Mathesuntha. Witiges had Theodahad murdered after the imprisonment and death of his mother-in-law. General Belisarius took both Witiges and Mathesuntha to Constantinople, and Witiges died there, without any children. After his death Mathesuntha married Germanus the patrician, a cousin of the Emperor Justinian.
Athalaric died in early 534, and the remainder of Cassiodorus' public career was engulfed by the Byzantine reconquest and dynastic intrigue among the Ostrogoths.
His last letters were drafted in the name of Witigis.
He spent his career trying to bridge the cultural divides that were fragmenting the 6th century, between East and West, Greek culture and Latin, Roman and Goth, Christian people with an Arian ruler.
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