Amalric
Amalric or Amalaric (also Americ, Almerich, Emeric, Emerick 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: Emerikos.
- Polish: Amalaryk, Amalryk, Emeryk.
- Portuguese: Amauri, Américo, América.
- Spanish: Américo.
Given name
- Amalaric, King of the Visigoths from 526 to 531
- Malaric, King of the Suevi 585
- Amalric of Nesle, Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1158 to 1180
- Amalric I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem from 1162 to 1174
- Amalric II of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem from 1197 to 1205
- Amalric of Bena, French theologian ca. 1200
- Arnaud Amalric, seventeenth abbot of Citeaux, died 1225
- Amalric of Montfort, crusader, died 1241
- Amalric, Lord of Tyre, Governor of Cyprus from 1306 to 1310
- Amalric Gérard (born 1980), French actor
Surname
- Mathieu Amalric, French actor and director born in 1965
- Leonid Amalrik (1905–1997), Soviet animator
- Andrei Amalrik (1938–1980), Soviet dissident
See also
- Amaury, a French alternate spelling
- Emery (name)
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