The Visigoths sacked Rome under Alaric I in 410, defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains under Theodoric I in 451, and founded a kingdom in Aquitaine.
Kmalu po Teodorikovi smrti leta 526 je v vojni, ki je opustošila in razselila cel Apeninski polotok, njegovo ozemlje osvojilo Bizantinsko cesarstvo.