Amalric

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 of Cyprus (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 (fl. 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)