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Alaric II
| Alaric II | |
|---|---|
| King of the Visigoths | |
.jpg) Alaric II, King of the Visigoths (Congress of Deputies. Madrid) | |
| Reign | 484 – 507 |
| Predecessor | Euric |
| Successor | Gesalec |
| Died | 507 |
| Spouse | Theodegotha or Thiudigoto, daughter of Theodoric the Great |
| Issue | Gesalec (illegitimate), Amalaric, Eustere |
| Dynasty | Balti |
| Father | Euric |
Alaric II (in Gothic: Alareiks; 458–507) was King of the Visigoths from 484 until 507. He was the son of Euric. He married Theodegotha, an illegitimate daughter of Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths.
Biography
In 486 Alaric II denied refuge to Syagrius, Roman ruler of the so-called Kingdom of Syagrius (the last stronghold of the Western Roman Empire), who had been defeated by Clovis I. Alarmed by Clovis's intimidation, Alaric handed the Roman nobleman over to him, and he was beheaded.[1]
He died at the Battle of Vouillé in 507, which pitted the Visigoths against the troops of the Frankish King Clovis I. The defeat of the Visigoths in this battle marks the end of the Kingdom of Toulouse,[2] since the Gallic possessions, except for Narbonensis, were lost.
He was succeeded by his son Gesalec, who undertook the withdrawal of the remnants of the Kingdom of Toulouse toward Hispania.
Alaric II drew up a code of laws, known as the Breviary of Alaric (506), for his "Roman" subjects, according to the traditional theory, while the customary law of the Visigothic people (compiled in the year 475 by King Euric in the Codex Euricianus or Code of Euric) was applied to the Goths.
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According to more recent theories, this Roman-inspired code would not have been applied exclusively to the Roman subjects, but to everyone, in an integrating rather than exclusionary attempt for society.
That same year he allowed the Catholic bishops of Gaul to meet at the Council of Agde in Agatha in Narbonensis.
The Breviary of Alaric, or Lex Romana Visigothorum, is the most important compilation of postclassical and vulgar Roman law produced in a Germanic kingdom.
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