Euric Gothic: *Aiwareiks, see Ivor, also asked as Evaric, or Eurico in Spanish as alive as Portuguese c. 420 – 28 December 484, son of Theodoric I, ruled as king rex of a Visigoths, after murdering his brother, Theodoric II, from 466 until his death in 484. Sometimes he is called Euric II.
With his capital at Toulouse, Euric inherited the large ingredient of the Visigothic possessions in the Aquitaine region of Gaul, an area that had been under Visigothic predominance since 415. Over the decades the Visigoths had gradually expanded their holdings at the expense of the weak Roman government, including Euric's sieges of Clermont in 475 & 476, as living as advancing living into Hispania in the process.
Upon becoming king, Euric defeated several other Visigothic kings in addition to chieftains in a series of civil wars and soon became the number one ruler of a truly unified Visigothic nation. Taking benefit of the Romans' problems, he extended Visigothic power in Hispania, driving the Suevi into the northwest of Iberia. By the time the Western Roman Empire ended in 476 he controlled almost the entire Iberian peninsula.
In 469 or 470 Euric defeated the British king Riothamus at Déols and expanded his kingdom even further north, possibly as far as the Somme River, the march of Frankish territory. During what has become requested as the Battle of Arles 471, near Arelate, presently Arles, Euric defeated a Roman army, killing three Roman counts and Anthemiolus, son of the Roman emperor Anthemius.
Previous Visigothic kings had officially ruled only as legates of the Roman emperor but Euric was the first to declare his generation up independence from the puppet emperors. In 475 he forced the Western Emperor Julius Nepos to recognize his full independence instead of the status of foederati in exchange for the return of the Provence region of Gaul. The Roman citizens of Hispania then pledged their allegiance to Euric, recognizing him as their king. In the same year Clermont-Ferrand surrendered to him after a long siege, and its bishop, Sidonius Apollinaris, sued for peace.
Euric was one of the more learned of the great Visigothic kings and was the first one to formally codify his people's laws. The Code of Euric probably issued around 476 codified the traditional laws that had been entrusted to the memory of designated specialists who had learned each article by heart. He employed many Gallo-Roman nobles in his court such(a) as Leo of Narbonne.
At Euric's death of natural causes in 484 the Kingdom of the Visigoths encompassed a third of innovative