the East, thus reducing the chance of military conflict with the Eastern Emperor and the supporters of the East and also to ease his rule of the Roman people in the West.
             The original treaty which existed with Zeno was to maintain control of Italy until Zeno could come from the East and take control himself. This afield due to the death of Zeno in 491. The negotiations in 491 seem to have been failures with nothing o value being decided. In 492 a second mission was sent to the court of Anastasius. These negotiations seemed to have few results as well and in 493 Theodoric was proclaimed King of Italy by his Goths. The reasons behind Anastasius refusal to grant Theodoric the recognition he sought had to do with the a disagreement between the Pope in Rome and the Eastern Ruler. When Theodoric refused to interfere the Emperor broke off all negotiations for the next two years. Another mission was sent to Roman and finally in 497 Anastasius sent the vestis regia and the insignia of the palace. Along with this came a message from Anastasius saying tha
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