Alaric I
370 – 410
Visigoth

King of the Visigoths. A symbol of barbarism, he plundered Rome, which even Attila had not done and thus earned for himself a place in the annals of barbarism.

Contemporaries
346–395Theodosius I
387–459St. Simeon Stylites
?–380Samudragupta
348–410Prudentius
340–385Priscillian
390–461St. Leo I
375–415Hypatia
291–371St. Hilarion
390–477Genseric
375–454Eutyches
304–384St. Damasus I
376–444Cyril of Alexandria
315–386St. Cyril of Jerusalem
329–379St. Basil
406–453Attila
296–373St. Athanasius
339–397St. Ambrose