id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6676 Sack of Rome (410) - Wikipedia .html text/html 8491 630 72 When Theodosius died on January 10, 395, the Visigoths considered their 382 treaty with Rome to have ended.[16] Alaric quickly led his warriors back to their lands in Moesia, gathered most of the federated Goths in the Danubian provinces under his leadership, and instantly rebelled, invading Thrace and approaching the Eastern Roman capital of Constantinople.[17][18] The Huns, at the same moment, invaded Asia Minor.[17] The death of Theodosius had also wracked the political structure of the empire: Theodosius' sons, Honorius and Arcadius, were given the Western and Eastern empires, respectively, but they were young and needed guidance. They made Alaric magister militum per Illyricum, giving him the Roman command he wanted and giving him free rein to take what resources he needed, including armaments, in his assigned province.[24] Stilicho, in the meantime, put down a rebellion in Africa in 399, which had been instigated by the eastern Roman empire, and married his daughter Maria to the 11-year-old Western emperor, Honorius, strengthening his grip on power in the West.[24] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6676.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6676.txt