Alaric, again outwitted by an enemy's machinations, marched southward and in deadly earnest, began his third siege of Rome.

Alaric accordingly led them across the Julian Alps and, in September 408, stood before the Aurelian Walls and began a strict blockade .< ref >

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.

Velletri began to decline after it was sacked by Alaric the Goth in 410 CE.

Shortly after these events, Emperor Theodosius I, perhaps realizing the situation between East and West was becoming problematic at the least, began to prepare his foederati, including Germanic troops, those from the Visigothic treaty in 382 CE led by Alaric, as well as a contingency of Alans and Huns, for war against Arbogast and Eugenius in 394.

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.

The political tension between the Catholic bishops of Arles and the Visigothic kings is epitomized in the career of the Frankish St Caesarius, bishop of Arles 503 – 542, who was suspected by the Arian Visigoth Alaric II of conspiring with the Burgundians to turn over the Arelate to Burgundy, and was exiled for a year to Bordeaux in Aquitaine, and again in 512 when Arles held out against Theodoric the Great, Caesarius was imprisoned and sent to Ravenna to explain his actions before the Ostrogothic king.

Alaric would go on to become Stilicho's chief adversary during his later career as the head of the Western Roman armies.

He witnessed the chequered career of Stilicho as de facto, though not in title, emperor of the West ; he saw the hosts of Radagaisus rolled back from Italy, only to sweep over Gaul and Spain ; the defeats and triumphs of Alaric I ; the three sieges and final sack of Rome, followed by the miraculous recovery of the city ; Herodian's vast armament dissipated ; and the fall of seven pretenders to the Western throne.

In 507 he scored the most impressive victory in his career, prevailing at the Battle of Vouillé against the Visigoths, who were led by Alaric II, the conqueror of Spain.

This success, and the dynasty of kings Alaric created, heightened tensions between the two families, leading to the Amali usurping the Visigothic throne in 415, making Sigeric king.

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Though Parker's central focus is free improvisation, he has also occasionally appeared in more conventional jazz contexts, such as Charlie Watts's big band and Kenny Wheeler's ensembles, and participated in Gavin Bryars's recording After the Requiem, performing the composition " Alaric I or II " as part of a saxophone quartet.

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.

Alaric II ( Gothic: Alareiks II ), also known as Alarik, Alarich, and Alarico in Spanish and Portuguese or Alaricus in Latin ( d. 507 ) succeeded his father Euric as king of the Visigoths in Toulouse on December 28, 484.

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.

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

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.

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

* Alaric, Visigothic leader of the foederati, renounces Roman fealty and is declared king, waging war against both parts of the Roman Empire, and ending a 16-year period of peace.

Emperor Theodosius I permits Alaric to go free on condition he provides, as foederati, military services to the Roman Empire.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.