Alaric (name)

Alaric is a masculine Germanic given name that, broken into its parts means Ala "everyone's" and ric "ruler". This has various forms in the several Germanic languages, such as Alareiks in the original Gothic and Alrekr in Old Norse. Most modern Germanic languages render it as Alarich or Alarik but Alaric is the form used in modern English, an adaptation of the Latinization (Alaricus) of the Gothic one—there is also the alternative Latinization Alarichus from Greek Ἀλάριχος --. In Italian, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish it is Alarico.

Kings

There were two Visigothic kings with this name:

• Alaric, who reigned from 395–410, prominent for the Sack of Rome in 410
• Alaric, who reigned from 485–507
  • The Breviary of Alaric, a collection of Roman law, compiled by order of Alaric II

There was one legendary king of Sweden by the name Alrek.

Others

• Alaric B. Chapin (June 18, 1848–November 27, 1924), Union Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Civil War
• Alaric Jacob, a British journalist, most active in the period 1940–1960
• Alaric Jans (born January 27, 1949 in St. Louis, Missouri), American film and theater composer
• Alaric Tay (born 26 June 1979), Singaporean director, producer and actor
• Alaric Tokpa, a politician in Liberia
• Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), a British poet and journalist
• Alarico Fernandes, Timorese politician and independence activist

Fictional characters

• Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, a character in P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle novels
• Alaric, a character in the novels of Phyllis Eisenstein
• Alaric Morgan, a fictional character in the Deryni series of historical fantasy novels by Katherine Kurtz
• Alaric Saltzman, a fictional character in The Vampire Diaries
• Alarich Wallenquist, a fictional character in Sin City
• Alaric Stark, a fictional character in the fantasy novel Fire & Blood written by George R. R. Martin

See also

• Eric