biography
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| King of the Visigoths, the son of Alaric I, elected king in 418. Alternately an ally and an enemy of Rome, in 421 (or 422) he treacherously joined the Vandals and attacked the Roman troops from behind. In 435 he attacked the Romans in Gaul and besieged Narbonne. Forced to retreat to Toulouse, he there defeated a Roman army (439). On the invasion of Attila in 451, he joined the Romans, under Aëtius, and at Troyes commanded the right wing. He drove back the Huns under Attila, but was killed. |
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