Theodoric I, sometimes called Theodorid and in Spanish Teodorico, was the King of the Visigoths from 419–451. He was the illegitimate son of Alaric. In 419 he succeeded King Wallia. Jump to: navigation, search The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, the Ostrogoths being the other. ... This article is about the year 419. ... Events April 7 - The Huns sack Metz June 20 - Attila, king of the Huns is defeated at Troyes by Aetius in the Battle of Chalons. ... Jump to: navigation, search An 1894 photogravure of Alaric I taken from a painting by Ludwig Thiersch. ... This article is about the year 419. ... Wallia (in Spanish Walia) was king of the Visigoths from 415 to 419, earning a reputation as a great warrior and prudent ruler. ...

As king he completed the settlement of the Visigoths in Aquitaine and expanded his realm into Hispania. During his rule the Visigoths were enemies and then allies of the Roman Empire. The most renowned event in his reign was the Battle of Chalons, where he assisted Aëtius in forcing Attila the Hun to retreat and abandon his campaign to ransack the western empire. Theodoric fell off his horse and was accidentally trampled by thousands of his own cavalry. Theodoric's son and later successor, Thorismund, took over the Visigothic army in his father's stead and helped win the day. Capital Bordeaux Area 41,309 km² Regional President Alain Rousset ( PS) (since 1998) Population   - 2004 estimate   - 1999 census   - Density (Ranked 6th) 3,049,000 2,908,359 74/km² (2004) Arrondissements 18 Cantons 235 Communes 2,296 Départements Dordogne Gironde Landes Lot-et-Garonne Pyrénées-Atlantiques Aquitaine... Jump to: navigation, search Roman aqueduct in Segovia Hispania was the name given by the Romans to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar) and to two provinces created there in the period of the Roman Republic: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ... The Battle of Chalons, also called the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields or the Battle of the Catalun, took place in 451 between the allied forces and foederati led by the Roman general Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric on one side, and the Huns led by their king Attila... Flavius Aëtius or simply Aëtius, (circa 396–454), was a Roman general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Huns, led by Attila (right, foreground), ride into Italy. ... Thorismund became king of the Visigoths after his father Theodoric was killed in the Battle of Chalons in 451. ...

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• Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 35