Alaric II was King of the Visigoths from 484 until his death in August 507, succeeding his father Euric at Toulouse. His realm covered most of Hispania together with Gallia Aquitania and much of Gallia Narbonensis. He is significant in legal history because he appointed a commission headed by the referendary Anianus to prepare an abstract of Roman laws and imperial decrees as the authoritative code for his Roman subjects, known as the Breviary of Alaric, in effect the Breviarium Alaricianum. An Arian himself, he eased his father's pressure on Catholics and permitted the council of Agde in 506. He was killed at the Battle of Vouillé against the Franks under Clovis I, which ended the Toulousan kingdom.
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was the King of the Visigoths from 484 until his death
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He succeeded his father Euric as King of the Visigoths in Toulouse on 28 December 484
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appointing a commission headed by the referendary Anianus to prepare an abstract of the Roman laws and imperial decrees
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