Amalaric (died
531), king of the
Visigoths, son of
Alaric II,
was a child when his father fell in battle against
Clovis I, king of the
Franks (
507). He was carried for safety into
Spain, which country and
Provence were thenceforth ruled by his maternal grandfather,
Theodoric the Ostrogoth, acting through his vice-regent, an Ostrogothic nobleman named Theudis. In
522 the young Amalaric was proclaimed king, and four years later, on Theodoric's death, he assumed full royal power in Spain and a part of
Languedoc, relinquishing Provence to his cousin Athalaric. He married Clotilda, daughter of Clovis; but his disputes with her, he being an
Arian and she a
Catholic, brought on him the penalty of a Frankish invasion, in which he lost his life in
531.
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