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Alaric Watson
Alaric may refer to: People and fictional and legendary characters *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 * Alaric and Eric, legendary kings of the Swedes Other uses *, a British Royal Navy submarine {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaric (name)
Alaric is a masculine Germanic given name that, broken into its parts means ''Ala'' "everyone's" and ''ric'' "ruler". This has various forms in the several Germanic languages, such as ''Alareiks'' in the original Gothic and ''Alrekr'' in Old Norse. Most modern Germanic languages render it as ''Alarich'' or ''Alarik'' but ''Alaric'' is the form used in modern English, an adaptation of the Latinization (''Alaricus'') of the Gothic one—there is also the alternative Latinization ''Alarichus'' from Greek ''Ἀλάριχος'' --. In Italian, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish it is ''Alarico''. Kings There were two Visigothic kings with this name: * Alaric I, who reigned from 395–410, prominent for the Sack of Rome in 410 *Alaric II, who reigned from 485–507 There was a legendary king of Sweden named Alaric. Others * Alaric B. Chapin (June 18, 1848–November 27, 1924), Union Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Civil War * Alari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaric I
Alaric I (; got, 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃, , "ruler of all"; c. 370 – 410 AD) was the first king of the Visigoths, from 395 to 410. He rose to leadership of the Goths who came to occupy Moesia—territory acquired a couple of decades earlier by a combined force of Goths and Alans after the Battle of Adrianople. Alaric began his career under the Gothic soldier Gainas and later joined the Roman army. Once an ally of Rome under the Roman emperor Theodosius, Alaric helped defeat the Franks and other allies of a would-be Roman usurper. Despite losing many thousands of his men, he received little recognition from Rome and left the Roman army disappointed. After the death of Theodosius and the disintegration of the Roman armies in 395, he is described as king of the Visigoths. As the leader of the only effective field force remaining in the Balkans, he sought Roman legitimacy, never quite achieving a position acceptable to himself or to the Roman authorities. He operated m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaric II
Alaric II ( got, 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃, , "ruler of all"; la, Alaricus; – 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; 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. Reign Herwig Wolfram opens his chapter on the eighth Visigothic king, "Alaric's reign gets no full treatment in the sources, and the little they do contain is overshadowed by his death in the Battle of Vouillé and the downfall of the Toulosan kingdom."Wolfram, ''History of the Goths'', p. 191 One example is Isidore of Seville's account of Alaric's reign: consisting of a single paragraph, it is primarily ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
