ILDIBADO, Gothic king of ITALY. - After Ravenna had fallen into the hands of the Byzantines through the action of Belisario in May 540, the Goths of northern Italy, not yet occupied by the Greeks, elected as their king Uraia, nephew of his predecessor Vitige, who declined the honour in favour of I., commander of the Gothic garrison of Verona and uncle of Totila.
Elected at Pavia, where he had a very small army, later increased by Goths from other areas of northern Italy, he attacked and defeated near Treviso Vitalio, magister militum of Illyricum, and Visando, king of the Heruli. But he soon alienated the goodwill of the Goths by having Uraia put to death; and a young Goth, a soldier of the bodyguard, also out of private vengeance, killed him during a banquet in June (?) 641.