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ATHALARIC (516-534)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATHALARIC (516-534)  , See also:king: of the See also:Ostrogoths, See also:grandson of See also:Theodoric, became king of the Ostrogoths in See also:Italy on his See also:grand-See also:father's See also:death (526) . As he was only ten years old, the regency was assumed by his See also:mother See also:Amalasuntha (q.v.) . The murmurs of the See also:Gothic nobles procured for their See also:young See also:sovereign too See also:early emancipation from the schoolroom . He drank heavily, and indulged in vicious excesses which ruined his constitution .

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