# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alaric-i
# Generated: 2026-09-01T15:04:11.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alaric-i"
name: "Alaric I"
slug: "alaric-i"
description: "He led the Visigoths into Rome in 410 AD and sacked it — the first time the city had fallen to a foreign enemy in eight centuries. The event didn't end the empire, but it announced that the old order could bleed."
tagline: "King of the Visigoths"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/02-ALARICO.JPG"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "400"
deathDate: "410"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           64.43
  momentum:             5.596119985800496
  historical:           24.37646933333334
  currentAttention:     3.821428571428572
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 197
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  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "Ancient History"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Alaric rose through the Roman army after fighting for Emperor Theodosius against Frankish forces, losing thousands of men with little recognition to show for it. When Theodosius died in 395 and the Roman military fractured, Alaric became king of the Visigoths and the only credible field commander left in the Balkans. He spent the next fifteen years seeking legitimacy from Rome — a formal position that both sides could live with — and never got it. He turned his attention to the Western Roman regimes and marched into Italy. In 410, he took Rome itself, an act that marked one of several fractures in the empire's long decline. He died the following year.