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Theodoric I d.451AD
King of the Visigoths

The son of Alaric I, he was elected king in AD418. He betrayed the Romans (c.421) and joined the Vandals. In 435 he attacked the Romans in Gaul and besieged Narbonne. He was forced to retreat to Toulouse, where he defeated a Roman army (439). On the invasion of Attila (451), he joined the Romans under Aëtius, and at Troyes commanded the right wing. He drove back the Huns under Attila but was killed.