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Alaric and blockade
As all attempts to conduct a satisfactory negotiation with this emperor failed, Alaric, after instituting a second siege and blockade of Rome in 409, came to terms with the Senate.
Alaric accordingly led them across the Julian Alps and, in September 408, stood before the Aurelian Walls and began a strict blockade .< ref >

Alaric and after
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.
Alaric cashiered his ineffectual puppet emperor after eleven months and again tried to reopen negotiations with Honorius.
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.
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.
Then when the Franks attacked the Burgundians in the decade after 500, Alaric assisted the ruling house, and according to Wolfram the victorious Burgundian king Gundobad ceded Avignon to Alaric.
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.
Priscus reports that superstitious fear of the fate of Alaric — who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410 — gave him pause.
Less than twenty years after the last vestiges of Paganism were crushed with great severity by the emperor Theodosius I Rome was seized by Alaric in 410.
In the last years of Theodosius ' reign, one of the emerging leaders of the Goths, named Alaric, participated in Theodosius ' campaign against Eugenius in 394, only to resume his rebellious behavior against Theodosius ' son and eastern successor, Arcadius, shortly after Theodosius ' death.
Finally, after the western general Stilicho was executed by Honorius in 408 and the Roman legions massacred the families of 30, 000 barbarian soldiers serving in the Roman army, Alaric declared war.
* August 24 – The Visigoths under Alaric I sack Rome after a third siege.
Jordanes says that Attila was afraid of sharing the fate of the Visigothic king Alaric, who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410.
* Alaric Searle, " Was there a ' Boney ' Fuller after the Second World War?
During the decline of the Western Roman Empire, Heruls, Vandals, Alaric and his Visigoths, as well as the Huns laid waste to the area, but the city recovered after the Ostrogoth conquest in 489 AD, before passing to Byzantine rule soon after.
Taking the advice of Priscus Attalus — the former emperor whom Alaric had set up at Rome in opposition to Honorius at Ravenna, and who had remained with the Visigoths after he'd been deposed — Ataulf led his followers out of Italy.
His two reigns lasted only a few months ; the first one ended when Alaric believed it was hampering his negotiations with Honorius, and the second came to an end after he was abandoned by the Visigoths and eventually captured by Honorius ' men.
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.
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 was disappointed in his hopes for promotion to magister militum after the battle of the Frigidus.
Indeed Attalus's claim was a marker of threat to Honorius, and Alaric dethroned him after a few months.
Turning on their hosts after decades of servitude and simmering hostility, Thervingi under Fritigern and later Visigoths under Alaric I eventually conquered and laid waste the entire Balkan region before moving westward to invade Italy itself.

Alaric and Attalus
Negotiations with Honorius broke down, and Alaric deposed Attalus in the summer of 410, and besieged Rome for the third time.
He negotiates with king Alaric I, who ceremonially deposes Priscus Attalus as co-emperor.
Attalus brought Alaric no real advantage, failing also to come to any useful agreement with Honorius ( who was offered mutilation, humiliation, and exile ).

Alaric and Western
Honorius, however, refused to appoint Alaric as the commander of the Western Roman Army, and in 409 the Visigoths again surrounded Rome.
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.
The Goths, weakened, were allowed to retreat back to Illyricum where the Western court again gave Alaric office, though only as comes and only over Dalmatia and Pannonia Secunda rather than the whole of Illyricum.

Alaric and Emperor
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.
Emperor Honorius, safe in inaccessible Ravenna, refuses to negotiate for peace, despite repeated offers from Alaric.
Emperor Theodosius I permits Alaric to go free on condition he provides, as foederati, military services to the Roman Empire.
However, in 409, King Alaric I of the Visigoths simply bypassed Ravenna, and went on to sack Rome in 410 and to take Galla Placidia, daughter of Emperor Theodosius I, hostage.
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.
* Hedrich, Emperor presented with Runefangs created by Alaric the mad.
Alaric was again declared an enemy of the Emperor.
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.

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

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