When gens gothorum settled in the territories of the Gallic diocese of Septem Prouinciarum, it resulted in a renewable pact with the Roman administration, the model of which was repeated with other peoples, although not in identical terms. In the almost 100 years they remained in Gaul, this people had to constantly re-invent themselves in order to bring cohesion to their own diverse make-up, and to do so they applied the ius gentium permitted in Roman law; to integrate themselves into their new homeland without completely losing their identity, to which end they intermarried with other peoples; and, finally, from the end of the Theodosiam dynasty, to assume military and political authority over a concrete territory, the regnum. This situation was thus from Theodosius II onwards, but the Goths' situation is not…