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Theodoric I, sometimes called Theodorid and in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Teodorico, was the King of the Visigoths from 419–451. He was the illegitimate son of Alaric. In 419 he succeeded King Wallia.

As king he completed the settlement of the Visigoths in Aquitaine and expanded his realm into Hispania. During his rule the Visigoths were enemies and then allies of the Roman Empire. The most renowned event in his reign was the Battle of Chalons, where he assisted Aëtius in forcing Attila the Hun to retreat and abandon his campaign to ransack the western empire. Jordanes records two different accounts of his death: one was that Theodoric was thrown from his horse and trampled to death; the second was that Theodoric was slain by the spear of the Ostrogoth Andag, who was the father of Jordanes's patron Gunthigis. (Getica 40.209).

Theodoric's son and later successor, Thorismund, assumed command of the Visigothic army and helped win the day.

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King Theodoric I of the Visigoths
Died: 451
Preceded by
Wallia		King of the Visigoths
419 – 451		Succeeded by
Thorismund

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The Visigoths (Western Goths) were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe (the Ostrogoths being the other). Together these tribes were among the loosely-termed Germanic peoples who disturbed the late Roman Empire during the Migration Period.
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Alaric I (Alareiks in the original Gothic; Alarik or Alarich in modern Germanic languages; Alaricus in Latin; and Alarico in Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), was likely born about 370 on an island named Peuce (the Fir) at the mouth of
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Wallia or Valia (in Spanish Walia, in Portuguese Vália) was king of the Visigoths from 415 to 419, earning a reputation as a great warrior and prudent ruler. He was elected to the throne after Athaulf and then Sigeric were assassinated in 415.
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Région Aquitaine

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Capital Bordeaux
Regional President Alain Rousset
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Hispania was the name given by the Romans to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Gibraltar and a very small southern part of France). When Rome was a republic, Hispania was divided into two provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior.
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The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. This article however is about the latter.
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Battle of Chalons (also called the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields or the Battle of Campus Mauriacus) in 451, a Roman coalition led by General Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I clashed violently with the Hunnic alliance commanded by King Attila.
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Flavius Aetius or simply Aetius, (c. 396–454), was a Roman general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. Along with his rival Count Boniface, he has often been called "the last of the Romans".
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Attila the Hun
Khan of Hunnic Empire
("Khan of the Huns")

Reign 434–453
Died 453
Buried
Predecessor Bleda & Rugila
Successor Ellac
Royal House Dulo
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Jordanes (also Jordanis or even Iornandes), was a 6th century bureaucrat,[1] who turned his hand to history later in life.

Though he wrote a history of Rome (Romana), the work that has attracted most interest is his Getica
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Thorismund (Torismond or in Spanish and Portuguese Turismundo) became king of the Visigoths after his father Theodoric was killed in the Battle of Chalons in 451 CE. He died in 453 and was succeeded by his brother Theodoric II.
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The Balti dynasty existed among the Visigoths, a Germanic people who confronted the Roman Empire in its declining years in the west. The Balti took their name from the Gothic word balþa (baltha) or bold. It thus meant the Bold ones or Bold men.
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Wallia or Valia (in Spanish Walia, in Portuguese Vália) was king of the Visigoths from 415 to 419, earning a reputation as a great warrior and prudent ruler. He was elected to the throne after Athaulf and then Sigeric were assassinated in 415.
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Thorismund (Torismond or in Spanish and Portuguese Turismundo) became king of the Visigoths after his father Theodoric was killed in the Battle of Chalons in 451 CE. He died in 453 and was succeeded by his brother Theodoric II.
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