- Amalaric
Amalaric, or in Spanish and Portuguese, "Amalarico", (502Brockhaus Geschichte Second Edition] – 531) was a son of king
Alaric II and of Theodegotho, daughter ofTheodoric the Great and his first wife. Amalaric was himself king of theVisigoths from 526 till he was assassinated in 531.He was a child when his father fell in battle against
Clovis I , king of theFranks , in 507.Gesalec was chosen king and the child Amalaric was carried for safety intoHispania . After Gesalec was killed in 511, the country andProvence was thenceforth ruled by Amalaric's maternal grandfather, Theodoric the Ostrogoth, acting through his vice regent,Theudis , an Ostrogothic nobleman. In 522 the young Amalaric was proclaimed king, and four years later, on Theodoric's death, he assumed full royal power in Hispania and that part ofLanguedoc calledSeptimania , relinquishingProvence to his cousinAthalaric . He married Chrotilda, daughter ofClovis I ; but his disputes with her, he being an Arian and she a Catholic, brought on him the penalty of a Frankish invasion byChildebert I , king ofParis . Amalaric was defeated atNarbonne in 531 and retreated behind the walls ofBarcelona , where he was assassinated by his own troops.Notes
References
*1911
*Edward Gibbon, [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/g/gibbon/edward/g43d/chapter39.html "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"] Chapter 39
*HistCat
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.