{"slug": "alaric-i", "label": "Alaric I", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaric_I", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102371", "qid": "Q102371", "description": "King of the Visigoths", "entries": 16, "years": 14, "span": [370, 410], "span_label": ["370 CE", "410 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 12}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "visigoths", "label": "Visigoths", "shared": 14}, {"slug": "stilicho", "label": "Stilicho", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "goths", "label": "Goths", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ravenna", "label": "Ravenna", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alps", "label": "Alps", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "theodosius-i", "label": "Theodosius I", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "peloponnese", "label": "Peloponnese", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": 370, "year_label": "370 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Alaric I (or Alaricus), king of the Visigoths (d. 410)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337457472#Births", "title": "370", "revid": 1337457472, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 390, "year_label": "390 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Visigoths and Huns, led by Alaric, invade Thrace. Stilicho, high-ranking general (magister militum) of Vandal origin, raises an army and begins a campaign against the Goths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355430318#Roman_Empire", "title": "390", "revid": 1355430318, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 392, "year_label": "392 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Stilicho, Roman general (magister militum), defeats the Visigoths and Huns in Thrace. Emperor Theodosius I permits Alaric to go free on condition he provides, as foederati, military services to the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331511439#Roman_Empire", "title": "392", "revid": 1331511439, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 394, "year_label": "394 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 6", "text": "September 6 – Battle of the Frigidus: Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the usurper Eugenius. The forces of Theodosius are bolstered by numerous auxiliaries, including 20,000 Visigoth federates under Alaric. The Frankish general Arbogast (magister militum) escapes into the Alps and commits suicide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369162073#Roman_Empire", "title": "394", "revid": 1369162073, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 395, "year_label": "395 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alaric, Visigothic leader of the foederati, renounces Roman fealty and is declared king, waging war against both parts of the Roman Empire, and ending a 16-year period of peace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334185587#Roman_Empire", "title": "395", "revid": 1334185587, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 396, "year_label": "396 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Revolt of Alaric I: The Visigoths, led by Alaric I, rampage through Greece and plunder Corinth, Argos and Sparta. They destroy the Temple of Eleusis, and harry the Peloponnese. Stilicho makes peace with the Goths, and allows them to settle in Epirus (Balkans).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1276670607#Roman_Empire", "title": "396", "revid": 1276670607, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 397, "year_label": "397 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Revolt of Alaric I: Stilicho traps the Visigoths under King Alaric in the Peloponnese, but decides to abandon the campaign against the Visigoths in Greece, thus allowing King Alaric to escape north to Epirus with his loot. Presumably, Stilicho has left Greece in order to prepare for military action in northern Africa, where a rebellion (see Gildonic Revolt in 398) seems imminent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744022#Roman_Empire", "title": "397", "revid": 1364744022, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 401, "year_label": "401 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 18", "text": "November 18 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334186664#Roman_Empire", "title": "401", "revid": 1334186664, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 402, "year_label": "402 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Visigoths advance on Mediolanum (modern Milan) and besiege Asti in Liguria. King Alaric I sends envoys to negotiate a peace, but the Roman government refuses to make deals with \"barbarians.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326555519#Roman_Empire", "title": "402", "revid": 1326555519, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 403, "year_label": "403 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – Battle of Verona: The Visigoths, under command of King Alaric I, invade Italy again, and advance through the Brenner Pass. Stilicho, with an army of 30,000 men, defeats the Goths north of Verona. Alaric makes a truce, and withdraws eastward to Illyricum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641291#Roman_Empire", "title": "403", "revid": 1367641291, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 405, "year_label": "405 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Flavius Aetius is sent as a child hostage at the court of Alaric I, king of the Visigoths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367640804#Roman_Empire", "title": "405", "revid": 1367640804, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 408, "year_label": "408 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Alaric I exacts a tribute from Rome that includes 3,000 pounds of pepper. The spice is valued for alleged medicinal virtues and for disguising spoilage in meat that is past its prime.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367644906#Medicine", "title": "408", "revid": 1367644906, "section": "Events › By topic › Medicine"}}, {"year": 408, "year_label": "408 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September", "text": "September – Rex Alaric I of the Visigoths crosses the Julian Alps with an army of 30,000 men, and marches into the Roman heartland. He lays siege to Rome, and Gothic auxiliaries desert to join Alaric's forces. After much bargaining, the Senate agrees to pay him a ransom of 5,000 pounds of gold, 30,000 pounds of silver, 4,000 silken tunics, and 3,000 hides dyed scarlet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367644906#Roman_Empire", "title": "408", "revid": 1367644906, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 409, "year_label": "409 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Visigothic king Alaric I lays siege to Rome a second time, bringing the inhabitants close to starvation. Emperor Honorius, safe in inaccessible Ravenna, refuses to negotiate for peace, despite repeated offers from Alaric, who then comes to terms with the Senate and sets up a rival emperor, Priscus Attalus, prefect (praefectus urbi) of the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641120#Roman_Empire", "title": "409", "revid": 1367641120, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 410, "year_label": "410 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Eastern Roman Empire sends six legions (6,000 men) to aid Honorius at Ravenna. He negotiates with King Alaric I, who ceremonially deposes Priscus Attalus as co-emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367642022#Roman_Empire", "title": "410", "revid": 1367642022, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 410, "year_label": "410 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Alaric I, king of the Visigoths", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367642022#Deaths", "title": "410", "revid": 1367642022, "section": "Deaths"}}]}