Osuin, a Man

Osuin (Osvin) was an Ostrogothic count (comes) who appears in Cassiodorus's Variae as the recipient of royal letters concerning the administration of the provinces of Dalmatia and Savia in the early-to-mid sixth century. The Gothic name and his appointment to govern a frontier military district reflect the Ostrogothic kingdom's practice of placing Gothic commanders over the Roman provincial population while Roman civil officials handled finance and law. Beyond these administrative letters he is otherwise little documented, but he stands as a representative example of the Gothic military officeholders who governed Italy's Adriatic and Pannonian borderlands on behalf of Theoderic's successors.