Athaulf, king of the Visigoths, by Raimundo de Madrazo. 1858. (Museo del Prado, Madrid).
Reign
411–415
Predecessor
Alaric I
Successor
Sigeric
Born
c. 370
Died
415
Spouse
1) Unknown 2) Galla Placidia
Dynasty
Balti dynasty
Father
Athanaric
Religion
Arianism
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]
^Patrick J. Geary, ed., Readings in Medieval History (Ontario: Broadview Press Ltd., 2003), 97.
^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.
^"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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