Thorismund (10 February 431-3 December 453) was King of the Visigoths from 451 to 453, succeeding Theodoric I and preceding Theodoric II.
Biography[]
Thorismund was born in 431, the son of the Visigothic king Theodoric I. He fought at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451, leading a decisive charge from a hilltop to rout the Huns, who had killed his father and nearly defeated the Romans and Goths. Thorismund succeeded his father as King, but he was murdered in 453 and succeeded by his brother Theodoric II.