ATAULF

ătˈāəlf, d. 415, Visigothic king (410–15). Succeeding his brother-in-law, Alaric I, he abandoned Alaric's scheme of southward expansion and led the Visigoths out of Italy into S Gaul (France) in 412. He sought the alliance of the Western emperor, Honorius, whose sister Galla Placidia he married in 414. However, the general Constantius (later Emperor Constantius III), jealous of Ataulf, turned Honorius against him. Constantius blockaded the Gallic ports, and Ataulf, cut off from supplies, led his people into N Spain (see Visigoths). He was assassinated at Barcelona.

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...himself died not long after. His successor Ataulf negotiated with Honorius and agreed...order. This as far as possible done, Ataulf fell out with the Romans and marched...Theodoric left one of his followers, Ataulf or Aiulf, in charge of the Swabians...
...was succeeded by his brother-in-law, Ataulf who for a time lingered uncertainly in...and overthrew one of his rivals. When Ataulf arrived with his host, he at first coquetted...him in alliance with Honorius. But Ataulf this time had formed a policy. He was...
...hesitate to inflict war upon Italy, when by sending Theoderic to attack Odoacer ____________________ 1 e.g. Alaric, Ataulf, Theoderic. Cf. pp. 46, 69. It is a striking fact that throughout the Dark Ages the claim of the rulers of Byzantium to exercise...
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ATAULF at a lf, d. 415, Visigothic king (410 15). Succeeding his brother-in-law...However, the general Constantius (later Emperor Constantius III ), jealous of Ataulf, turned Honorius against him. Constantius blockaded the Gallic ports, and Ataulf, cut off from supplies, led his people into N Spain (see Visigoths ). He was...
BONIFACE bon fas, d. 432, Roman general. He defended (413) Marseilles against the Visigoths under Ataulf. Having supported Galla Placidia in her struggle with her brother, Emperor Honorius, Boniface fled to Africa in 422. There...
...sister Galla Placidia , he vied with his rival, Ataulf , the Visigothic king, and drove him from Gaul into Spain shortly after Ataulfs marriage (414) to Galla Placidia. In 416, after Ataulf was assassinated, he made peace with the new Visigothic...
...his Italian campaign, she was held by the Visigoths as a hostage and married (414) Alarics successor Ataulf . After the murder (415) of Ataulf she was at first ill-treated but was returned in 416 to her brother Honorius . In 417 she married the...
...infuriated, Alaric stormed and sacked Rome in 410. Alarics death left Ataulf in command of the Visigoths, who then left Italy to invade Gaul. In 412, Honorius made peace with Ataulf, whom he reluctantly accepted (414) as husband for his sister Galla...
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