Jordanes or Jordanis was a 6th century historian. He was a Goth and was a notary of Gothic kings in Italy. At the time of Justinian, he was a Christian and possibly bishop of Kroton. In approximately AD 580, he wrote 'De origine aebusque Getarum', 'De breviatione chronicorum' and 'De regnorum et temporum successione' and many more.