# Athaulf

> He turned a wandering Gothic war-band into a kingdom that could bargain with Rome as an equal — then died by assassination before he could see what he'd built outlast him.

*King of the Visigoths*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/athaulf

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Born:** 400
- **Died:** 0415-09-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Athaulf became king of the Visigoths in 411, inheriting a people still organized along tribal lines and living on the edges of a crumbling Roman world. Over the next four years he restructured the Visigothic state, replacing older kinship networks with the apparatus of a political power that could negotiate, threaten, and maneuver among the collapsing provinces of late antiquity. The transformation was swift and consequential: by the time of his death on 15 August 415, the Visigoths were no longer raiders but a force Rome had to reckon with as something like peers. He was killed before his mid-forties, stabbed in his own court, the state he'd shaped left to successors who would carry it forward into Spain and beyond.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 53.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 22.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athaulf)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159716)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Athaulf)
- [أتولف](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81)
- [اتولف](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81)
- [Ataúlfu](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata%C3%BAlfu)
- [Атаулф](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%84)
- [Ataulf](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataulf)
- [Ataülf](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata%C3%BClf)
- [Athaulf](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athaulf)
- [Ataulf](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataulf)
- [Athaulf](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athaulf)
- [Αταούλφος](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BB%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82)
- [Ataulfo](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataulfo)
- [Ataúlfo](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata%C3%BAlfo)
- [Ataulfo](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataulfo)
- [آتولف](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81)
- [Ataulf](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataulf)
- [Athaulf](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athaulf)
- [Ataulf](https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataulf)
- [Ataúlfo (rei)](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata%C3%BAlfo_(rei))
- [אטהאולף](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%98%D7%94%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A3)
- [Ataulf](https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataulf)
- [Athaulf nyugati gót király](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athaulf_nyugati_g%C3%B3t_kir%C3%A1ly)
- [Ataulf](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataulf)
- [Æþelwulf Westgotena Cyning](https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86%C3%BEelwulf_Westgotena_Cyning)
- [Ataúlfo](https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata%C3%BAlfo)

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