Gesalec
Sign in to saveGesalic (; ; ; ; – 513), was a king of the Visigoths from 507 to 511, and died in 513.
Key facts
- Royalty.succession
- King of the Visigoths
- Royalty.reign
- August 507 – 511
- Royalty.predecessor
- Alaric II
- Royalty.successor
- Theodoric the Great
- Royalty.birth_date
- 480
- Royalty.death_date
- 513 (aged 33)
- Royalty.father
- Alaric II
- Royalty.religion
- Arian Christianity
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Burgundy
- Father
- Alaric II
- Sibling
- Amalaric
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Position held
- list of Visigothic Kings
- Family
- Balti dynasty
- Noble title
- king of Wisigoths
- Image
- Gesaleico, rey de los Visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg
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- Commons category
- Gesaleico
- date of death
- 0512-01-01
- date of birth
- 0450-00-00
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gesalic (; ; ; ; – 513), was a king of the Visigoths from 507 to 511, and died in 513.
==Biography== Although the illegitimate son of Alaric II, he had been elected king by the Visigoths after Alaric had been killed in battle by the Franks. Alaric's only legitimate son, Amalaric, was a child and too young to rule.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gesalec” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.