He was a son of king Alaric II and his first wife Theodegotho, daughter of Theodoric the Great.

When Alaric II was killed fighting Clovis I, king of the Franks, in the Battle of Vouillé ( 507 ), his kingdom fell into disarray.

* Alaric II

Reverse of a coin of Alaric II, gold 1. 47 g

Illustration of Alaric II at Biblioteca Nacional de España

The Kingdom of the Visigoths under Alaric II. After a few years, however, Clovis violated the peace treaty negotiated in 502.

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* 490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.

In 506, the Breviarum or " Lex Romana " of Alaric II, king of the Visigoths, adopted and consolidated the Codex Theodosianus together with assorted earlier Roman laws.

* 484 – Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths.

* 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates The Breviary of Alaric ( Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum ) a collection of Roman law.

The Goths were briefly reunited under one crown in the early sixth century under Theodoric the Great, who became regent of the Visigothic kingdom following the death of Alaric II at the Battle of Vouillé in 507.

He defeated Alaric II at Vouillé in 507 and annexed Aquitaine, and thus Toulouse, into his Frankish kingdom.

He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric.

He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the heirs of the 4th-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric.

King Alaric II was killed in battle.

* Alaric II ( 484 – 507 )

* King Alaric II supports Theodoric, in his conquest of Italy by dispatching an Visigoth army to raise Odoacer's siege of Pavia.

In 394 Alaric led a Gothic force of 20, 000 that helped the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius defeat the Frankish usurper Arbogast at the Battle of Frigidus.

Subsequently, around 30, 000 Gothic soldiers defected to Alaric, and joined his march on Rome to avenge their murdered families.

In addition, Alaric forced the Senate to liberate all 40, 000 Gothic slaves in Rome.

This, combined with their post-battle rewards, prompted them to raise Alaric " on a shield " and proclaim him king ; according to Jordanes ( a Gothic historian of varying importance, depending upon who is asked ), both the new king and his people decided " rather to seek new kingdoms by their own work, than to slumber in peaceful subjection to the rule of others.

Alaric was succeeded in the command of the Gothic army by his brother-in-law, Ataulf, who married Honorius ' sister Galla Placidia three years later.

In 490, Alaric assisted his fellow Gothic king, Theodoric the Great, in his conquest of Italy by dispatching an army to raise Odoacer's siege of Pavia, where Theodoric had been trapped.

Roger Collins believes the Visigoths were a creation of the Gothic War of 376 – 382 and began as a collection of foederati ( Wolfram's " federate armies ") under Alaric I in the eastern Balkans, composed of largely Tervingi with Greuthungian and other barbarian contingents.

One of his comrades during the campaign was the Visigothic warlord Alaric, who commanded a substantial number of Gothic auxiliaries.

Alaric began his career leading a band of Gothic foederati.

As a by-product of these events, the actions of an intrigue within the Imperial court, the general, Sarus, abandoned the western army followed by his men ; this left the Emperor Honorius in Ravenna without any significant military power, and also facing the problem of a Gothic army under Alaric roaming unchecked in Etruria.

: Also see Alaric for the Gothic kings.

In 391 Alaric, a Gothic leader, rebelled against Roman control.

Goths attacked the emperor himself, but within a year Alaric was accepted as a leader of Theodosius's Gothic troops and this rebellion was over.

According to the Gothic historian Jordanes, Alaric left Rome and headed south with his troops.

* 401 – 403, Invasion of Italy by Visigoths under Alaric I, Gothic War.

Alaric died soon after in Cosenza, probably of fever, at the age of about forty ( assuming again, a birth around 370 AD ), and his body was, according to legend, buried under the riverbed of the Busento.

Syagrius flees to the Visigoths ( under king Alaric II ), but Clovis threatens war and he is handed over for execution.

* Hall, Alaric, ' Old MacDonald had a Fyrm, eo, eo, y: Two Marginal Developments of < eo > in Old and Middle English ', Quaestio: Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 2 ( 2001 ), 60-90.

The Battle of Vouillé or Vouglé ( from Latin Campus Vogladensis ) was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at Vouillé, Vienne near Poitiers ( Gaul ), in the spring of 507 between the Franks commanded by Clovis and the Visigoths of Alaric II, the conqueror of Spain.

War ensued, and eventually the Visigothic king Alaric II was defeated by the Frankish king Clovis at the Battle of Vouillé in 507, a battle important in the psyche of modern-day France ( etymologically land of the Franks ), where Franks are perceived as " French " and Visigoths have become " foreigners ".

As it is well known that the Dwarfs will always remember a favor ( or a foe ), the High King of the Dwarfs, Kurgan, ordered the commissioning of the Runefangs, by the legendary Dwarf smith Alaric the Mad to be gifted to the Elector Counts.

Alaric and Eric ( Old Norse Alrekr and Eiríkr ), were two legendary kings of Sweden and may have lived in the 5th century

The conspiracy then massacred the families of the federate troops ( as presumed supporters of Stilicho, although they had probably rebelled against him ), and the troops defected en masse to Alaric.

Honorius's court made overtures to the usurper Constantine III in Gaul and arranged to bring Hunnic forces into Italia, Alaric ravaged Italia outside the fortified cities ( which he could not garrison ), and the Romans refused open battle ( for which they had inadequate forces ).

In 410 Alaric took Rome by starvation, sacked it for three days ( there was relatively little destruction, and in some Christian holy places Alaric's men even refrained from wanton wrecking and rape ), and invited its remaining barbarian slaves to join him, which many did.

* Alaric B. Chapin ( 1848 – 1924 ), Union hero in American Civil War

Alaric Alexander Watts ( 16 March 1797-5 April 1864 ), British poet and journalist, born in London.

Stilicho had trapped Alaric and the Visigoths in Greece ( 395 ), but his Eastern troops were commanded by Arcadius, who, under suggestion by Rufinus, recalled them, so that Stilicho was forced to return his forces west across the border.

In German Burg means castle or fortress, though so many towns grew up around castles that it almost came to mean city, and is incorporated into many placenames, such as Hamburg, Flensburg and Strasbourg .< ref > Hall, Alaric, ' Old MacDonald had a Fyrm, eo, eo, y: Two Marginal Developments of < eo > in Old and Middle English ', Quaestio: Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 2 ( 2001 ), 60-90 .</ ref >

* Hall, Alaric, ' The Meanings of Elf and Elves in Medieval England ' ( Ph. D. dissertation, University of Glasgow, 2004 ), pp. 10 – 12

It wasn't until 506, when Alaric II ( 484 – 507 ) published his Breviarium Alaricianum ( wherein he adopted the laws of the ousted Romans ), that a Visigothic king concerned himself with the Jews ( Katz, p. 10 ).

Syagrius fled to the Visigoths ( under Alaric II ), but Clovis threatened war and the Visigoths handed Syagrius over for execution.

* Alaric Jacob ( 1909 – 1995 ), British journalist and author