Turismundo

Turismundo (¿? - 453) was king of the Visigoths between the years 451 and 453. His original Gothic name was þaurismoþs [Thôrismoths], " Thor &#34 courage; or perhaps and more correct þaurismund " Thor &#34 protection; þauris ' de Thor ', mund ' hand, protection '.

Biography

was the son of Theodoric I and grandson of the great Alaric I, winner of Rome. He enjoyed popularity among his for his enormous physical strength. He was chosen by the Gothic soldiers in the battle of the Catalan fields, also called Châlons-Sur-Marne, before the same still hot body of his father, killed by the Hunos and to whom the funeral honors were giving to beat the weapons.

installed his cut in Toulouse and subjected the Alans in Orleans; He was probably the first Visigoth king to have a vision of the Visigothic kingdom as independent of Rome and treated the Romans equally; This secessionist policy led to the Roman General Aecio, former winner with his father of Atila in the Catalan fields, to conspire to kill him with a group of revolted Visigoth noble Frederico. As Diego Saavedra Fajardo tells in his Gothic Crown and Father Juan de Marian His bed, when he was prostrated by a disease, after which the conspirators named Teodorico II his successor.