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Ataulf (ăt`āəlf), d. 415, Visigothic king (410–15). Succeeding his brother-in-law, Alaric I Alaric I (ăl`ərĭk), c.370–410, Visigothic king. He headed the Visigothic troops serving Emperor Theodosius I.
..... Click the link for more information. , 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 Honorius, 384–423, Roman emperor of the West (395–423). On the death (395) of Theodosius I, the Roman Empire was divided; Arcadius , the elder son, received the East, and Honorius, the younger son, received the West.
..... Click the link for more information. , whose sister Galla Placidia Galla Placidia (găl`ə pləsĭd`ēə), c.388–450, Roman empress of the West, daughter of Theodosius I.
..... Click the link for more information. he married in 414. However, the general Constantius (later Emperor Constantius III Constantius III, d. 421, Roman emperor of the West (421). In 411, as general of Honorius , he defeated Gerontius and Constantine; thereafter he was the virtual ruler of the West.
..... Click the link for more information. ), 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 Visigoths (West Goths), division of the Goths, one of the most important groups of Germans . Having settled in the region W of the Black Sea in the 3d cent. A.D., the Goths soon split into two divisions, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths.
..... Click the link for more information. ). He was assassinated at Barcelona.