Amalaric ( Gothic : π°πΌπ°π»π°ππ΄πΉπΊπ, Amalareiks ; Spanish and Portuguese : Amalarico ; 502β531) was king of the Visigoths from 522 until his assassination. He was a son of king Alaric II and his first wife Theodegotha , daughter of Theodoric the Great .
12-579: [REDACTED] Look up Emmerich in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Emmerich may refer to: Places [ edit ] Emmerich am Rhein , city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Emmerich Rhine Bridge Emmerich station Emmerich, Wisconsin , unincorporated community in the town of Berlin, Wisconsin, United States Other uses [ edit ] Emmerich (name) ,
24-580: A given name and a surname (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) Mount Emmerich , a mountain in Alaska See also [ edit ] Amalaric (died 531), King of the Visigoths Haimirich , a surname Aimery (disambiguation) (also Aimery, Amalrich), French forms Amerigo (disambiguation) (also Emerico, Almerigo, Almerico, Aimerico), Italian forms Imre , Hungarian form Topics referred to by
36-480: A peace with Clovis' successors, securing Visigothic control of the southernmost portion of Gaul for the rest of the existence of their kingdom. In 522, the young Amalaric was proclaimed king, and four years later, on Theodoric's death, he assumed full royal power, although relinquishing Provence to his cousin Athalaric . His kingdom was faced with a Frankish threat from the north; according to Peter Heather, this
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60-572: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Amalaric When Alaric II was killed while fighting Clovis I , king of the Franks , in the Battle of VouillΓ© (507), his kingdom fell into disarray. "More serious than the destruction of the Gothic army," writes Herwig Wolfram , "than the loss of both Aquitanian provinces and the capital of Toulose ,
72-532: The fullest information for this period, where it touches Merovingian affairs, he often "allowed his religious bias to determine his interpretation of the events." Peter Heather agrees with Wood's implication in this instance: "I doubt that this is the full story, but the effects of Frankish intervention are clear enough." Childebert defeated the Visigothic army and took Narbonne . Amalaric fled south to Barcelona , where according to Isidore of Seville , he
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108-552: The town of Berlin, Wisconsin, United States Other uses [ edit ] Emmerich (name) , a given name and a surname (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) Mount Emmerich , a mountain in Alaska See also [ edit ] Amalaric (died 531), King of the Visigoths Haimirich , a surname Aimery (disambiguation) (also Aimery, Amalrich), French forms Amerigo (disambiguation) (also Emerico, Almerigo, Almerico, Aimerico), Italian forms Imre , Hungarian form Topics referred to by
120-551: Was chosen as king but his reign was disastrous. King Theodoric of the Ostrogoths sent an army, led by his sword-bearer Theudis , against Gesalec, ostensibly on behalf of Amalaric; Gesalec fled to Africa. The Ostrogoths then drove back the Franks and their Burgundian allies, regaining possession of "the south of Novempopulana , Rodez , probably even Albi , and even Toulose". Following the 511 death of Clovis, Theodoric negotiated
132-404: Was his motivation for marrying Chrotilda , the daughter of Clovis. However, this was not successful, for according to Gregory of Tours , Amalaric pressured her to forsake Orthodoxy and convert to Arian Christianity , at one point beating her until she bled; she sent to her brother Childebert I , king of Paris , a towel stained with her own blood. Ian Wood noted that although Gregory provides
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#1732772688650144-521: Was the death of the king." Alaric had made no provision for a successor, and although he had two sons, one was of age but illegitimate and the other, Amalaric, the offspring of a legal marriage but still a child. Amalaric was carried for safety into Spain , which country and Provence were thenceforth ruled by his maternal grandfather, Theodoric the Great , acting through his vice-regent, an Ostrogothic nobleman named Theudis . The older son, Gesalec ,
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