Ataulf
Sign in to saveAthaulf (also Athavulf, Atawulf, or Ataulf and Adolf, Latinized as Ataulphus) ( 37015 August 415) was king of the Visigoths from 411 to 415. During his reign, he transformed the Visigothic state from a tribal kingdom to a major political power of late antiquity.
Key facts
- Monarch.title
- King of the Visigoths
- Monarch.reign
- 411–415
- Monarch.birth_date
- 370
- Monarch.death_date
- 415
- Monarch.predecessor
- Segeric
- Monarch.successor
- Sigeric
- Monarch.spouse
- 1) Unknown2) Galla Placidia
- Monarch.dynasty
- Balti dynasty
- Monarch.father
- Athanaric
- Monarch.religion
- Arianism
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- Ataúlfo.jpg
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- Ataúlfo
- date of death
- 0415-09-08
- date of birth
- 0400-00-00
- name in native language
- Ataulfus, Ataulphus, Athaulfus
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Athaulf (also Athavulf, Atawulf, or Ataulf and Adolf, Latinized as Ataulphus) ( 37015 August 415) was king of the Visigoths from 411 to 415. During his reign, he transformed the Visigothic state from a tribal kingdom to a major political power of late antiquity.
==Life== He was unanimously elected to the throne to succeed the murdered short-lived King Segeric after he himself had been elected in the wake of the death of King Alaric, who had been struck down by a fever suddenly in Calabria. King Athaulf's first act was to halt Alaric's southward expansion of the Goths in Italy.