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

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