A second invasion also ended in defeat at the Battle of Verona, though Alaric forced the Roman Senate to pay a large subsidy to the Visigoths.

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

Alaric was forced by his magnates to meet Clovis in the Battle of Vouillé ( Summer 507 ) near Poitiers ; there the Goths were defeated and Alaric slain, according to Gregory of Tours, by Clovis himself.

In early 408, Stilicho attempted to strengthen his position at court by marrying his second daughter, Thermantia, to Honorius after the death of the empress Maria in 407 Another invasion by Alaric was prevented in 408 by Stilicho when he forced the Roman Senate to pay 4, 000 pounds of gold to persuade the Goths to leave Italy.

The kings after Alaric II favoured Narbonne as a capital, but twice ( 611 and 531 ) were defeated and forced back to Barcelona by the Franks before Theudis moved the capital there permanently.

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.

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

In a surprise attack on Easter Sunday in 402, Stilicho defeated Alaric at the Battle of Pollentia, capturing his camp and his wife.

According to the Ynglinga saga, Alaric and Eric were sons and heirs of the previous king Agni by his wife Skjálf.

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.

The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.

When Alaric sacked Rome in 410, Pelagius and his close follower Caelestius fled to Carthage where he continued his work and briefly encountered St. Augustine in person.

His other most famous work was the epic of Alaric ( 1659 ).

In that year, the Visigoths ' most famous king, Alaric I, took the throne, while Theodosius was succeeded by his incapable sons: Arcadius in the east and Honorius in the west.

From 835 to 844, Sunyer I ruled Empúries and Peralada while Alaric I ruled Roussillon and Vallespir.

In the 2005 general election, the presidential candidate of the party, George Klay Kieh, Jr. and his running mate Alaric Tokpa won 0. 5 % of the votes, while the Party received 3. 62 % of the vote, good for three seats in the House of Representatives of Liberia.

Alaric became the friend and ally of his late opponent, Stilicho.

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.

In 410 AD Alaric I, king of the Visigoths, captured the great city of Rome and became the first foreign enemy to capture this city in over 800 years.

* HMS Alaric ( P441 ) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy.

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

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

Honorius, however, refused to appoint Alaric as the commander of the Western Roman Army, and in 409 the Visigoths again surrounded Rome.

Stilicho was absent in Raetia in the latter months of 401, when Alaric, who was also the eastern empire's magister militum in Illyricum, suddenly marched with a large army to the Julian Alps and entered Italy.

* 402 – Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.

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

" Alaric had made no provision for a successor, and although he had two sons, one was of age but illegitimate and the other the offspring of a legal marriage but still a child.

Alaric I (; 370-410 ) was the King of the Visigoths from 395 – 410.

Alaric is most famous for his sack of Rome in 410, which marked a decisive event in the decline of the Roman Empire.

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.

Despite sacrificing around 10, 000 of his men, Alaric received little recognition from the Emperor.

As a response, the Eastern emperor Flavius Arcadius appointed Alaric magister militum (“ master of the soldiers ”) in Illyricum.

In 401 Alaric invaded Italy, but he was defeated by the Roman half-Vandal general Flavius Stilicho at Pollentia ( modern Pollenza ) on April 6, 402.

During the invasion by the Pagan Goth Radagaisus, Alaric remained idle in Illyria.

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

Moving swiftly along Roman roads, Alaric sacked the cities of Aquileia and Cremona and ravaged the lands along the Adriatic Sea.

Alaric lifted his blockade after proclaiming Attalus as Western Emperor.

Negotiations with Honorius broke down, and Alaric deposed Attalus in the summer of 410, and besieged Rome for the third time.

Having abandoned a plan to occupy Sicily and North Africa after the destruction of his fleet in a storm, Alaric died as the Visigoths were marching northward.

Portrait of Alaric in C. Strahlheim, Das Welttheater, 4.

Born c. 370 on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube in present day Romania, Alaric belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Tervingian Goths.

After their setbacks against the Huns, Alaric was probably a child during the Goths ' mass migration across the Danube and their subsequent war with Rome.

In 394 Alaric served as a leader of foederati under Theodosius I in the campaign which crushed the usurper Eugenius.