Wallia
Wallia , King of the Visigoths (415 - 418), is the son of Modaharius, a noble Visigoth of noble lineage perhaps related to the crowned family of the Balthes, certain sources make of it the brother of Athaulf. Besides Wallia marries noble pertaining to this prestigious family resulting directly, according to the Gothic tradition , of the God Gaut.
In September 415, after the assassination of the king Sigéric, instigator of the murder of the king Athaulf little front time, Wallia is carried to the capacity. He renvoit Official reception Placidia in Italy in exchange of 600.000 bushels of corn provided by the Roman Empire to the Visigoths and is recognized by Rome like federate in Aquitaine. It is also charged to fight the “Barbares” which infest the Iberian peninsula, i.e. mainly of the Vandales, old enemies of Goths, the Suèves and some clans alains. In 416, it penetrates in Spain and severely beats the riders alains which escape from little from the total extermination. Suèves are forced to fold up itself in Galicia while one of the two principal tribes vandals (the Sillings), is reached hard: its king Frédébal dies in the combat while its tribe is partly exterminated and forced to link itself with the Vandals Hasdings of the Bétique (Andalusia). Wallia recrosses the the Pyrenees in 418 before dying little of time after its arrival with Toulouse (assassination?).
See too
| Random links: | Public transport inhabitant of Lille | Columbia (allegory) | François Arnail, count de Jaucourt | Mel (Italy) | Frequency (statistics) | Buffalo_six |