Alaric II

Alaric II
A ring depicting Alaric II. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
King of the Visigothic Kingdom
Reign28 December 484 – c. August 507
PredecessorEuric
SuccessorGesalec
Bornc. 458/466
Diedc. August 507 (aged 41/49)
SpouseUnknown
Theodegotha
IssueGesalec
Amalaric
FatherEuric
MotherRagnagild
ReligionArian Christianity

Alaric II (Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃, Alareiks, "ruler of all";[1] Latin: Alaricus; c. 458/466 – August 507) was the King of the Visigoths from 484 until 507. He succeeded his father Euric as king of the Visigoths in Toulouse on 28 December 484;[2] he was the great-grandson of the more famous Alaric I, who sacked Rome in 410. He established his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Vicus Julii) in Aquitaine. His dominions included not only the majority of Hispania (excluding its northwestern corner) but also Gallia Aquitania and the greater part of an as-yet undivided Gallia Narbonensis.

  1. ^ Kelsie B. Harder, Names and their varieties: a collection of essays in onomastics, American Name Society, University Press of America, 1984, pp. 10–11
  2. ^ Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths, translated by Thomas J. Dunlap (Berkeley: University of California, 1988), p. 190.