{{otheruses|Amalric}}
'''Amalaric''', or in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], ''Amalarico'', ([[502]]<ref name="Brockhaus">Brockhaus Geschichte Second Edition</ref> – [[531]]) was a son of king [[Alaric II]] and of Theodegotho, daughter of [[Theodoric the Great]] and his first wife. Amalaric was himself king of the [[Visigoths]] from [[526]] till he was assassinated in 531.
He was a child when his father fell in battle against [[Clovis I]], king of the [[Franks]], in [[507]]. [[Gesalec]] was chosen king and the child Amalaric was carried for safety into [[Hispania]]. After Gesalec was killed in 511, the country and [[Provence]] was thenceforth ruled by Amalaric's maternal grandfather, [[Theodoric the Great|Theodoric]] the Ostrogoth, acting through his vice regent, [[Theudis]], an Ostrogothic nobleman. In [[522]] the young Amalaric was proclaimed king, and four years later, on Theodoric's death, he assumed full royal power in Hispania and that part of [[Languedoc]] called [[Septimania]], relinquishing [[Provence]] to his cousin [[Athalaric]]. He married [[Clotilde (died 531)|Chrotilda]], daughter of [[Clovis I]]; but his disputes with her, he being an [[Arianism|Arian]] and she a [[Catholicism|Catholic]], brought on him the penalty of a Frankish invasion by [[Childebert I]], king of [[Paris]]. Amalaric was defeated at [[Narbonne]] in 531 and retreated behind the walls of [[Barcelona]], where he was assassinated by his own troops.<ref name="Brockhaus"/>
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==References==
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*Edward Gibbon, [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/g/gibbon/edward/g43d/chapter39.html ''History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''] Chapter 39
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