Amalric

Amalric

Gender	Masculine
Language	Gothic
Origin
Meaning	Ruler of the Amali
Other names
Alternative spelling	Amalaric
Variant form	Americ
Cognate	Emeric
Derived	Amal
Related names	Almerich

Amalric or Amalaric (also Americ, Almerich, Emerich, Emeric, Emerick, Emerik and other variations) is a personal name derived from the tribal name Amal (referring to the Gothic Amali) and ric (Gothic reiks) meaning "ruler, prince".

Equivalents in different languages include:

• French: Amaury (surname/given name), Amalric (surname), Amaurich (surname), Maury (surname)
• German: Amalrich, Emmerich
• Italian: Amerigo, Arrigo
• Hungarian: Imre
• Latin: Amalricus, Americus, Almericus, Emericus
• Greek: Έμέρικοσ (Emérikos)
• Polish: Amalaryk, Amalryk, Emeryk
• Dutch: Emmerik, Amerik, Hamelink, Hamelryck
• Portuguese: Amáuri, Américo
• Spanish: Amauri, Américo
• Serbo-Croatian: Emerik/Емерик
• Arabic: عَمُورِي (ʻAmūrī)

Given name

• Amalaric (502–531), King of the Visigoths from 526 to 531
• Malaric (fl. 585), King of the Suevi
• Amaury, Count of Valenciennes (fl.953-973)
• Amalric of Nesle (fl. 1151–1180), Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1158 to 1180
• Amalric, King of Jerusalem (1136–1174), King of Jerusalem from 1163 to 1174
• Aimery, King of Jerusalem (bef. 1155–1205), King of Jerusalem from 1198 to 1205, Lord of Cyprus from 1194 to 1196 and King of Cyprus from 1196 to 1205
• Amalric of Bena (f. 1200–1204), French theologian
• Arnaud Amalric (fl. 1196–1225), seventeenth abbot of Citeaux
• Amaury de Montfort, several individuals including:
  • Amaury de Montfort (died 1241) (1195–1241), crusader
• Amalric, Lord of Tyre (c. 1272–1310), Governor of Cyprus from 1306 to 1310
• Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512), Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived.
• Louis Marie Jacques Amalric de Narbonne-Lara (1755–1813), vicomte de Narbonne-Lara, French nobleman, soldier and diplomat

Surname

• Arnaud Amalric (died 1225), Cistercian abbot
• Catherine Amalric (born 1964), French politician
• Mathieu Amalric (born 1965), French actor and director
• Leonid Amalrik (1905–1997), Soviet animator
• Andrei Amalrik (1938–1980), Soviet dissident

See also

• Almeric, a given name
• Amaury (disambiguation), a French alternative spelling
• Emery (name)