Alaric II, d. 507, Visigothic king of Spain and of S Gaul
(c.484–507), son and successor of Euric. He issued (506) at
Toulouse the Breviary of Alaric for his Roman subjects. Alaric's
adherence to Arianism gave Clovis I, king of the Franks, an easy
pretext for attacking him in the name of orthodoxy. Alaric was
defeated and slain at Vouillé (507), and the Visigoths lost all
their possessions in Gaul except Septimania. The Columbia
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