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.

However, this may be — for our information at this point of the story is meagre — on August 24 410, Alaric and his Visigoths burst in by the Porta Salaria on the northeast of the city.

Nonetheless, the written sources do not mention damages wrought by fire, save the Gardens of Sallust, which were situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance ; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.

This is generally known as the Breviarium Alaricianum or Breviary of Alaric.

It seems peace was restored by 399, although it is likely that no further garrisoning was ordered ; and indeed by 401 more troops were withdrawn, to assist in the war against Alaric I.

* Flavius Aetius is sent as a child hostage at the court of Alaric I, king of the Visigoths.

Alaric dies in Cosenza, probably of fever, and his body is buried along with his treasure under the riverbed of the Busento.

* 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.

* December 28 – The Visigoth king Euric dies and is succeeded by his son Alaric II.

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

The Breviary of Alaric ( Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum ) is a collection of Roman law, compiled by order of Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, with the advice of his bishops and nobles.

Majorian's domestic policy is known thanks to some of the laws he issued, the so-called Novellae Maioriani, that were included in a collection of Roman law entitled Breviarium, requested by the 6th-century Visigothic king Alaric II to some Gallic-Roman jurists in 506.

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.

The date of the book is not our main focus here, what is more important is Orosius ’ s objective in responding to Saint Augustine ’ s request by writing a book aimed at proving that Rome ’ s decadence – it should be remembered that Rome was sacked by Alaric I in 410 – had nothing at all to do with the fact that the Romans had relatively recently converted to Christianity.

The exact reasons for this are unclear, but it is possible that Stilicho planned to employ Alaric and his battle-hardened troops as allies against the bands of Alans, Vandals and Sueves that were threatening to invade the West.

The Montagne d ' Alaric ( Alaric's Mountain ) is an antiform fold in the shape of a vault and made of limestone.

Álfröðull also occurs as a kenning for the sun in skaldic verse ; the simplex, röðull, is used with the same meaning and Alaric Hall therefore suggests in his book on the elves that the choice of " álfröðull " depended on alliteration, but that the existence of the kenning suggests that the concepts of the sun and the elves were " semantically congruent "; he considers the álfr ( elf ) in " álfröðull " possibly a heiti for Freyr.

Isidore's view of Roman law in the fifth book is viewed through the lens of the Visigothic compendiary called the Breviary of Alaric, which was based on the Code of Theodosius, which Isidore never saw.

It is said that Alaric the Visigoth and Attila the Hun each demanded from Rome a ransom of more than a ton of pepper when they besieged the city in 5th century.

The captured Syagrius is brought before Alaric II who orders him sent to Clovis I

* 410 – Rome is sacked by Alaric I

No blood was shed this time ; Alaric relied on hunger as his most powerful weapon.

The most notable event of his reign was the assault and Sack of Rome on 24 August 410 by the Visigoths under Alaric.

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.

Alaric managed to escape with most of his men.

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

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.

* Alaric is the most ruthless of some of history's most feared and ferocious warriors, the Goths.

Alaric captured the most famous cities, Corinth, Argos, and Sparta.

In 506, Alaric II drew up his famous code, the Breviarium Alaricianum.

Martianus was active during the fifth century, composing his one famous book, De nuptiis — fundamental in the history of education, the history of rhetoric and the history of science — after the sack of Rome by Alaric I in 410, which he mentions, but apparently before the conquest of North Africa by the Vandals in 429.

" 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.

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

The death of Arcadius in May 408 caused milder counsel to prevail in the western court, but Alaric, who had actually entered Epirus, demanded in a somewhat threatening manner that if he were thus suddenly requested to desist from war, he should be paid handsomely for what modern language would call the " expenses of mobilization ".

These negotiations might have succeeded had it not been for the malignant influence of another Goth, Sarus, an Amali, and therefore hereditary enemy of Alaric and his house.

By 502 Clovis and Alaric met on an island in the Loire near Amboise for face-to-face talks, which led to a peace treaty.

Alaric exiled him for a year to Bordeaux in Aquitania, then allowed him to return unharmed when the crisis had passed.

Alaric displayed similar wisdom in political affairs by appointing a commission to prepare an abstract of the Roman laws and imperial decrees, which would form the authoritative code for his Roman subjects.

Alaric withdrew his support for Priscus in 410, but the negotiations with Honorius broke down.

Emperor Honorius, safe in inaccessible Ravenna, refuses to negotiate for peace, despite repeated offers from Alaric.

* King Alaric II issues the " Lex Romana Visigothorum " or Breviary of Alaric, an abstract of Roman laws and imperial decrees compiled by a commission appointed to provide a law code for Alaric's Roman subjects.

As regards his policy, twelve laws of his have been preserved: the so-called Novellae Maioriani were included in the Breviarium that was compiled for the Visigothic king Alaric II in 506, and help to understand the problems that pressed Majorian's government.

Edward Gibbon, drawing on Zosimus, criticizes Stilicho for being overconfident in victory and indulging in luxury and women, allowing Alaric to escape.

Meanwhile, Constantine ’ s rebellion having broken off the negotiations between Alaric and Stilicho for the joint attack on Illyria, Alaric demanded the payment he was owed, threatening to attack Italy again if he was not given a large amount of gold.

The destruction was completed in 395 AD by the Goths under Alaric I. Piraeus was led to a long period of decline which lasted for fifteen centuries.

He was one of several rulers to whom king Theoderic sent letters urging peace, and asking for mediation between Alaric II and Clovis.

They are responsible for the preservation of Roman law through the drafting of the Breviary of Alaric in 506 which applied on this immense territory both to the Visigoths and the local Roman populations.