Amalaric

Amalaric (* 502 ; † 531 in Barcelona ) was king of the Visigoths from 511 to 531 .

Life

Amalaric was a son of King Alaric II and a daughter of Theodoric the Great . He was still a child when his father was killed in 507 in the battle of Vouillé against Clovis I , king of the Franks . At the beginning of his reign his grandfather Theodoric the Great took over the guardianship through a governor named Theudis. In 522 Amalaric was declared king, and after Theodoric's death he received full royal power on the Iberian Peninsula and in Septimania . The Provence went to his cousin Athalaric . Amalarich married Chlothilde, a daughter of Clovis I and Chrodechild , in 526/527 . He was a follower of Arianism and tried, even with mistreatment, to dissuade his wife from her Catholic faith. The Catholic Frankish king Childebert I took this as an opportunity to attack the Visigothic empire. In the battle of Narbonne Childebert I defeated Amalaric's troops. He fled to Barcelona and was murdered there by his own people in 531. With his death, the Balthen family , which had provided the Visigothic kings since Alaric I , died out. Theudis became the new king of the Visigoths .

literature

Ludo Moritz Hartmann : Amalaricus . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, column 1715.
Edward A. Thompson : The Goths in Spain . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1969, pp. 9-13.

Web links

genealogie-mittelalter.de

Remarks

↑ On the circumstances of his death see Konrad Bund: Falling from the throne and deposition of rulers in the early Middle Ages , Bonn 1979, pp. 554f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Theodoric the Great	Visigoth kings 526–531	Theudis

personal data
SURNAME	Amalaric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of the Visigoths
DATE OF BIRTH	502
DATE OF DEATH	531
Place of death	Barcelona

[1] On the circumstances of his death see Konrad Bund: Falling from the throne and deposition of rulers in the early Middle Ages , Bonn 1979, pp. 554f.