Alaric II
450 – 507
Visigoth

King of the Visigoths. He defended Arian Christianity, but was defeated by Clovis, the king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne, which dealt a fatal blow to Arianism, the doctrine that Christ and God differed in some respects.

Contemporaries
500–547Theodora
387–459St. Simeon Stylites
412–485Proclus
499–565Procopius
?–451Nestorius
390–461St. Leo I
fl. 450Kalidasa
482–565Justinian
390–477Genseric
375–454Eutyches
fl. 450Buddhaghosa
453–523St. Bridget
484–577St. Brendan
480–524Anicius Boethius
480–547St. Benedict of Nursia
406–453Attila