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AMAL , the name of the noblest See also:family among the See also:Ostrogoths, and that from which nearly all their See also:kings were chosen. - AMALARIC (d. 531), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Visigoths, son of See also:Alaric II., was a See also:child when his See also:father See also:fell in See also:battle against See also:Clovis, king of the See also:Franks (5o7). He was carried for safety into See also:Spain, which See also:country and See also:Provence were thenceforth ruled by his maternal grandfather, See also:Theodoric the Ostrogoth, acting through his vicegerent, an Ostrogothic nobleman named Theudis. In 522 the See also:young Amalaric was proclaimed king, and four years later, on Theodoric's See also:death, he assumed full royal See also:power in Spain and a See also:part of See also:Languedoc, relinquishing Provence to his See also:cousin See also:Athalaric. He married See also:Clotilda, daughter of Clovis; but his disputes with her, he being an Arian and she a See also:Catholic, brought on him the See also:penalty of a Frankish invasion, in which he lost his See also:life in 531.
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