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Imaginative portrait of Alaric in C. Strahlheim, Das Welttheater, 4.Band, Frankfurt a.M., 1836. According to Jordanes, a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat of Gothic origin—who later turned his hand to history—Alaric was born on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube Delta in present-day Romania and belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Thervingian Goths.
The sack of Rome on 24 August 410 AD was undertaken by the Visigoths led by their king, Alaric. At that time, Rome was no longer the administrative capital of the Western Roman Empire, having been replaced in that position first by Mediolanum (now Milan) in 286 and then by Ravenna in 402. Nevertheless, the city of Rome retained a paramount ...
The revolt of Alaric I was a military conflict between the Roman Empire and a rebel army, probably composed mainly of Goths. This war consisted a number of armed conflicts in the period between 395 and 398, interspersed with periods of negotiations and sometimes even cooperation.
One of its major issues was a mass migration of Germanic and other non-Roman peoples known as the Migration Period. which led to the sack of Rome in 410 by the Germanic Visigoths under Alaric. [2] Rome was sacked in 410, the first time the city had fallen since c. 387 BCE, by the Visigoths under Alaric I. [3]
The battle was part of the invasion of Italy by the Visigothic king Alaric I. Having driven the emperor Honorius into Ravenna, Alaric laid siege to Rome. In order to support his siege, Alaric attacked the nearby city of Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber. He took the city port along with a massive amount of food supplies destined for the capital.
Sack of Rome (390 BC) following the Battle of the Allia, by Brennus, king of the Senone Gauls; Sack of Rome (410), by the Visigoths under Alaric I; Sack of Rome (455), by the Vandals under Gaiseric; Sack of Rome (546), by the Ostrogoths under King Totila; Siege of Rome (549–550), also by Totila; Sack of Rome (846), by the Arabs
Alaric rallied his unprepared army with skill and courage to meet the Roman attack, and even succeeded in routing the Roman auxiliary cavalry of the Alani, whose king fell in the battle. [26] However, according to the most reliable writers, [ 27 ] the Goths were ultimately driven from the field with slaughter, and their camp was stormed and ...
The Goths found themselves trapped in the mountain valleys near Verona, surrounded on all sides by Stilicho's forces.In the battle that ensued, named after the neighbouring city, Alaric's army suffered heavy casualties, though the king himself managed to break through the Roman lines to erect his standard on an adjacent hill, followed by his bravest soldiers. [9]