Mataswintha, also spelled Matasuintha, Matasuentha, Mathesuentha, Matasvintha,[1] or Matasuntha,[2] (fl.
Athalaric died in the years of his childhood, and Mathesuentha married Vitiges, to whom she bore no child.
"[4] According to Patrick Amory, she was forced to marry Witigis after the murder of her mother, and her cousin Theodahadus.
Nothing further is known of him with certainty, although he can possibly be identified with the patricius Germanus, a leading senator in the reign of Emperor Maurice (r. 582–602).
As "Mathaswentha", she appears as a character in the time travel novel Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp, where Wittigis tries to force her to marry him.