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Imaginative portrait of Alaric in C. Strahlheim, Das Welttheater, 4.Band, Frankfurt a.M., 1836. According to Jordanes, a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat of Gothic origin—who later turned his hand to history—Alaric was born on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube Delta in present-day Romania and belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Thervingian Goths.
Despite being in a superior army in size and equipment, Alaric's soldiers wavered as all of the Auvergnat commanders except Apollinaris were killed. [2] During the melée Clovis allegedly killed the Visigothic king Alaric, whereupon the Visigothic army broke and fled. [3] Clovis's army proceeded south and plundered Alaric's treasure at Toulouse ...
Theodoric did not take any action against Theudis. One reason was that doing so would give the Franks, who had killed the Visigothic king Alaric in the Battle of Vouillé, an excuse to take to the field once again. Another was that Theudis was careful to obey the commands of his king, and never failed to send the annual tribute. [b]
Possibly in 391, a Gothic chieftain named Alaric was declared king by a group of Visigoths, though the exact time this happened (Jordanes says Alaric was made king in 400 [14] and Peter Heather says 395 [15]) and nature of this position are debated. [16] [17] He then led an invasion into Eastern Roman territory outside of the Goths' designated ...
The revolt of Alaric I was a military conflict between the Roman Empire and a rebel army, probably composed mainly of Goths. This war consisted a number of armed conflicts in the period between 395 and 398, interspersed with periods of negotiations and sometimes even cooperation.
Jones didn’t even get screen credit for the first two “Star Wars” movies, “A New Hope” and “The Empire Strikes Back.” That would come later, as he returned to do Vader’s voice in ...
Alaric (name), a Germanic name, including a list of people and fictional characters Alaric I (c. 370–410), king of Visigoths, who sacked Rome, and many Greek cities Alaric II (c. 458–507), king of the Visigoths
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