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Athalaric (516

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- 2 October

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Athalaric (516

516

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- 2 October 534

534

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) was the King of the Ostrogoth

Ostrogoth

The Ostrogoths were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribes that played a major role in the political events of the late Roman Empire. The other branch was the Visigoths....
s in Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. The grandson of Theodoric the Great

Theodoric the Great

File:Theodoric bronze weight inlaid with silver issued by prefect Catulinus Rome 493 526.jpg'Theodoric the Great' , known in Latin as 'Flavius Theodericus' and in Greek sources, was king of the Ostrogoths , ruler of Italy , and regent of the Visigoths ....
, he became king upon his grandfather's death in 526.

As Athalaric was only ten years old, the regency was assumed by his mother, Amalasuntha

Amalasuntha

Amalasuntha was a queen of the Ostrogoths from 516 to 534.A daughter of Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great, she secretly married a slave named Traguilla....
. His mother attempted to provide for him an education in the Roman tradition, but the Gothic nobles pressured her to allow them to raise him as they saw fit. As a result, Athalaric drank heavily and indulged in vicious excesses, which ruined his constitution.