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)