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who was still a child. Gesalec proved incompetent, and in 511 King
Theodoric assumed the throne of the kingdom ostensibly on behalf of AmalaricâHeather uses the word "hijacked" to describe his action. Although Amalaric eventually became king in his own right, the political continuity of the
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Visigothic kingdom was broken; "Amalaric's succession was the result of new power structures, not old ones," as
Heather describes it. With Amalaric's death in 531, the Visigothic kingdom entered an extended period of unrest which lasted until
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to prepare an abstract of the Roman laws and imperial decrees, which would form the authoritative code for his Roman subjects. This is generally known as the
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Visigothic kingdom was thrown into disarray "by the death of its king in battle." Alaric's heirs were his eldest son, the illegitimate
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and father-in-law of Alaric, Clovis led his followers into
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Ostrogothic help, much of the Gallic territory was recovered, Herwig Wolfram notes, perhaps as far as
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After a few years, however, Clovis violated the peace treaty negotiated in 502. Despite the diplomatic intervention of
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in the decade after 500, Alaric assisted the ruling house, and according to
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for face-to-face talks, which led to a peace treaty.
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823:Chapter 38
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1077:Chintila
1072:Sisenand
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385:Toulouse
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273:Clovis I
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