Who is known in History to be the "scourge of God"?

Answer 1

Attila, King of the Huns (circa 406-453 A.D.)
In his own day he and his Huns were known as the "Scourge of God," and the devastation they caused in Gaul (what is now France) before the great Battle of Châlons in 451 A.D. became a part of medieval folklore and tradition. One of the most feared and notorious barbarians of all time, Attila is believed to be of distant Mongol stock, he ravaged much of the European continent during the 5th century A.D. which threatened to dramatically redirect the development of Western Europe. Attila and his brother succeeded their uncle as leaders of the Huns in 434, with Attila in the junior role until his brother's death (perhaps at Attila's hand) 12 years later. The Hun kingdom was centered in modern-day Hungary. Attila embarked immediately upon a series of wars extending Hun rule from the Rhine across the north of the Black Sea as far as the Caspian Sea. From that base he soon began a long series of saber-rattling negotiations with the capitals of the Roman Empire at Constantinople in the East and Rome in the West. In the Spring of 451, Attila forged an alliance with the Franks and Vandals and unleashed his long-threatened attack into the heart of Western Europe. After pillaging a broad swath of cities in his path, he was near obtaining the surrender of Orleans when the combined Roman and Visigoth armies under the command of the Roman General Flavius Aetius forced Attila's retreat to the northeast.

If Flavius had not been successful in holding back the Hun invasion the whole course of Western history might have been changed. Unlike most other Barbarians of the age, the Huns were not Christians, and their respect for the Graeco-Roman Christian civilization of the Late Empire was much more limited even than that of Visigoth and Vandal. Perhaps Rome's last great service to the West was to serve as a buffer between the Asiatic Huns and the Germanic Barbarians whose destiny was to lay the medieval foundations of the modern, western nations. Aetius had been blamed by many Italians for not having destroyed Attila and the Huns in Gaul, but "the last of the Romans" had contributed substantially to the ruin of the once proud Barbarian nation. Its place in the pages of history was over.

In 452, Attila attempted to invade Rome again but withdrew after a meeting with Rome's Bishop, the Holy Roman Pontiff, Pope Leo I. Attila died in 453. It is told that he took a new, young, beautiful bride, a woman named Ildico, though he already had a coterie of wives. The wedding day was spent in heavy drinking and partying, and Attila took his new bride to bed that night in drunken lust. The next morning it was discovered that he had died. In his drunkenness he had choked to death in his own nosebleed. The new bride was found quivering in fear in the great man's bedquarters. It is possible, although unsubstantiated, that in a conspiracy that involved Flavius Aetius, Ildico assinated Attila. The empire of the Huns dissipated nearly as quickly as its most famous leader.

Answer 2

It was Attila (pronounced Ottila) the Hun. For an excellent read, try "Attila: The Barbarian King who Challenged Rome" by John Mann. I got my copy in the UK through The History Guild. For a more concise biography try "The World's Most Notorious Men" from Chancellor Press which contains bios on many other fascinating characters.

Answer 3

Attila the Hun.

Attila was the king of the Scythian hordes known as the Huns.

He successfully led his forces to invade the Eastern Roman Empire in 441. In 451, on the Plains of Chalons, he suffered a setback against the Romans and Visigoths, but was on the verge of sacking Rome when in 452 the pope dissauaded Attila from sacking Rome.

Answer 4

Attila the Hun, defeated at Chalons in 451 AD. The world would've been much different if he had defeated the Romans.

Answer 5

Attila the Hun.

Answer 6

the hun named Attila

Answer 7

self realization

Answer 8

The devil