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Legendary Gothic kings (4 P) O. Ostrogothic kings (1 C, 11 P) V. Visigothic kings (4 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Gothic kings"
The new laws applied to both Gothic and Hispano-Roman populations who had been under different laws in the past, and it replaced all older codes of law. [23] The code included old laws by past kings, such as Alaric II in his Breviarium Alarici, and Leovigild, but many were also new laws. The code was based almost wholly on Roman law, with some ...
The title of King of the Goths (Swedish: Götes konung; Danish: Goternes konge; Latin: gothorum rex) was for many centuries borne by both the kings of Sweden and the kings of Denmark. In the Swedish case, the reference is to Götaland (land of the Geats ); in the Danish case, to the island of Gotland (land of the Gutes ).
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 Gothic War between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom was fought from 535 until 554 in Italy, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica. It is commonly divided into two phases. It is commonly divided into two phases.
Ermanaric [a] (died 376) was a Greuthungian Gothic king who before the Hunnic invasion evidently ruled a sizable portion of Oium, the part of Scythia inhabited by the Goths at the time. He is mentioned in two Roman sources: the contemporary writings of Ammianus Marcellinus , and in Getica by the sixth-century historian Jordanes .
Wamba was the king of the Visigoths from 672 to 680. [78] During his reign, the Visigothic kingdom encompassed all of Hispania and part of southern Gaul known as Septimania. Wamba was succeeded by King Ervig, whose rule lasted until 687. [79] Collins observes that "Ervig proclaimed Egica as his chosen successor" on 14 November 687. [80]
Meanwhile, Gothic raids on the Roman Empire continued, [126] In 250–51, the Gothic king Cniva captured the city of Philippopolis and inflicted a devastating defeat upon the Romans at the Battle of Abrittus, in which the Roman Emperor Decius was killed. [127] [104] This was one of the most disastrous defeats in the history of the Roman army. [104]