Euric (in Latin, Euricus), born around 440 CE, was the fourth son of the Visigothic king Theodoric I; he became king in 466, after having killed his brother Theodoric II; later he broke the foedus which had, since 418, authorised Gothic settlement in Aquitainia secunda, and affirmed the autonomy of their own kingdom, even more after 475, when Rome basically gave up exerting its power in Gaul. Between 471 and 476, Euric extended the territory of his kingdom in south-western Gaul, pushing east to the Rhone and Provence and north to the Loire, and south of the Pyrenees in most of the Iberian peninsula (except for a Suevian enclave in the north-west). During this time, he became the most important king of the West. At the court of Toulouse, the capital of his kingdom, he received ambassadors from all over the known world. One of his ministers was Leo of Narbonne, the great legal expert, who played a leading role in the compilation of the Codex Euricianus. Euric died in Arles on December 28, 484. [M. A. Ligios; tr. C. Belanger]