Theodoric I, sometimes called Theodorid, was the King of the Visigoths from 419–451. He was the illegitimate heir|illegitimate son of Alaric. In 419 he succeeded king Wallia. He completed the settlement of the Visigoths in Aquitaine and expanded his realm into Hispania. Under his reign 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 Aetius in forcing Attila the Hun to retreat and abandon his campaign to ransack the western empire. He was killed during the battle. 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. ... An 1894 photogravure of Alaric I taken from a painting by Ludwig Thiersch. ... This article is about the year 419. ... Wallia was the king of the Visigoths from 415 to 419. ... 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... 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. ... 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 Theodorid on one side, and the Huns led by their king Attila... Flavius Aetius or simply Aetius, (circa 396–454), was a Roman general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. ... The Huns, led by Attila (right, foreground), ride into Italy. ...

He was succeeded by his son Thorismund. Thorismund became king of the Visigoths after his father Theodorid was killed in the Battle of Chalons in 451. ...

Wallia was the king of the Visigoths from 415 to 419. ... The Visigoths, originally Tervingi, or Vesi (the noble ones), one of the two main branches of the Goths (of which the Ostrogothi were the other), were one of the loosely-termed Germanic peoples that disturbed the late Roman Empire. ... Thorismund became king of the Visigoths after his father Theodorid was killed in the Battle of Chalons in 451. ...