Attila
Life and reign
The Scourge of God, who built a Hunnic empire from the Rhine to the Caspian and extracted gold from Constantinople. He ravaged the Balkans, fought the western Roman general Aetius and his Visigoth allies at the Catalaunian Plains in 451, and turned back from Italy in 452 after meeting Pope Leo. He died on his wedding night in 453.
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