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| | Alaric II -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) |
 | | The intervention of (Click link for more info and facts about Theodoric) Theodoric, king of the (A member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD) Ostrogoths and father-in-law of Alaric, proved unavailing. |
 | | The two armies met in (Click link for more info and facts about 507) 507 at the (Click link for more info and facts about Campus Vogladensis) Campus Vogladensis, near Poitiers, where the Goths were defeated, and their king, who took to flight, was overtaken and slain, it is said, by Clovis himself. |
 | | His son, (Click link for more info and facts about Amalaric) Amalaric was still a child, so he was succeeded by his illegitimate son, Gesalic |
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