Athaulf

Athaulf
King of the Visigoths
Athaulf, king of the Visigoths, by Raimundo de Madrazo, 1858. (Museo del Prado, Madrid).
Reign411–415
PredecessorAlaric I
SuccessorSigeric
Bornc. 370
Died415
Spouse1) Unknown
2) Galla Placidia
DynastyBalti dynasty
FatherAthanaric
ReligionArianism
Athaulf

Athaulf (also Athavulf,[1] Atawulf,[2] or Ataulf and Adolf, Latinized as Ataulphus) (c. 370 – 15 August 415) was king of the Visigoths from 411 to 415. During his reign, he transformed the Visigothic state from a tribal kingdom to a major political power of late antiquity.[3]

  1. ^ Patrick J. Geary, ed., Readings in Medieval History (Ontario: Broadview Press Ltd., 2003), 97.
  2. ^ Henry Bradley, The Goths: from the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, Second edition, 1883), chapter 11.
  3. ^ "within that period he developed from a tribal chief to a late antique statesman." Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths (1979, tr. 1988) p. 164.

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