BARBARI Germanic troops hired by the Romans proclaim their leader Odoacer king of Italy in 476. Flavius ​​Odoacer (433-493); general ethnic Germans; became king of the Heruli and patrician Romans. It took office following the deposition of the Emperor Romulus Augustus is considered the end of the Western Roman Empire. In the left pane a schematic map of the kingdom of Odoacer. Chromos; Liebig figurine series "The migration of peoples"; Italy 1905