According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

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

Later in 409, the West Romans stationed ten thousand Huns in Italy and Dalmatia to fend off Alaric, who then abandoned plans to march on Rome.

* The Goths, led by Alaric I, invade and devastate Thrace and Macedonia, impose a tribute on Athens, and then turn their sights on the West.

In the 5th century, both Alaric the Goth and then Attila and the Huns devastated the area.

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.

Alaric then moved south, intending to take ship to Africa, but his ships were wrecked in a storm and he shortly died of fever.

* The second war with the Visigoths, led by king Alaric, in which they raided Greece, and then invaded Italy, culminating in the sack of Rome ( 410 ).

* The Visigoths, led by Alaric I, rampage through Greece and plunder Corinth, Argos and Sparta.

Arcadius ' Chamberlain Eutropius allowed Alaric to enter Greece, and he looted Corinth, and the Peloponnese.

Arcadius ' Chamberlain Eutropius allowed Alaric to enter Greece, and he looted Athens, Corinth and the Peloponnese.

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

Stilicho now marched east against Alaric.

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

Alaric, having penetrated the city, marched southwards into Calabria.

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.

Honorius, slumbering at Milan was caught unaware and quickly fled to Asti, only to be pursued by Alaric, who marched into Liguria.

Stilicho now marched east against Alaric.

The Senate deeply resented peace with Alaric ; in 407, when Alaric marched into Noricum and demanded a large payment for his expensive efforts in Stilicho's interests, the senate, " inspired by the courage, rather than the wisdom, of their predecessors ," preferred war.

Ataulf a Goth nominally in Roman service and brother in law to Alaric, marched through Italia to join Alaric despite taking casualties from a small force of Hunnic mercenaries led by Olympius.

* On page 27, the Goths sing " Oh grand old Alaric, he had ten thousand men / He marched them up to the gates of Rome ..." This version of The Grand Old Duke of York refers to Alaric I who sacked Rome in 410 AD.

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

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.

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.

Instead, Rufinus attempted to negotiate with Alaric in person, which only aroused suspicions in Constantinople that Rufinius was in league with the Goths.

From there Alaric escaped with difficulty, and not without some suspicion of connivance by Stilicho, who supposedly had again received orders to depart.

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 cashiered his ineffectual puppet emperor after eleven months and again tried to reopen negotiations with Honorius.

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.

To counter Priscus, Honorius tried to negotiate with Alaric.

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

' For he had a very large cock, Rome by name ; and the eunuch comprehending his words said that it was the city of Rome which had perished at the hands of Alaric, and the emperor with a sigh of relief answered quickly: ' But I thought that my fowl Rome had perished.

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.

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.

He negotiates with king Alaric I, who ceremonially deposes Priscus Attalus as co-emperor.

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

King Alaric I send enovoys to negotiate a peace, but the Roman government refuses to make deals with " barbarians ".

* September – Alaric I, king of the Visigoths, crosses the Julian Alps with an army of 30, 000 men and marches into the Roman heartland.

James sent an ambassador to Abaqa in the person of Jayme Alaric de Perpignan, who returned with a Mongol embassy in 1269.

" Alaric Hall has equated the Vanir with the elves, and Joseph S. Hopkins and Haukur Þorgeirsson, building on suggestions by archaeologist Ole Crumlin-Pedersen and others, link the Vanir to ship burial customs among the North Germanic peoples, proposing an early Germanic model of a ship in a " field of the dead " that may be represented both by Freyja's afterlife field Fólkvangr and by the Old English Neorxnawang ( the mysterious first element of which may be linked to the name of Freyja's father, Njörðr ).

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.