The Visigoths (Latin: Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, or Wisi) are one of two main branches of the later Goths, the Ostrogoths being the other.

These tribes are among the Germanic peoples who spread through the late Roman Empire during Late Antiquity or the Migration Period.

The Visigoths emerge out of the Gothic groups who enter the Roman Empire in and after 376 and defeat the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378.

The Visigoths invade Italy under Alaric I and famously sack Rome in 410 CE, eventually settling in Spain where they found a powerful Kingdom.After numerous years of migration, which lead the Visigoths to compare themselves to the Biblical Hebrew people wandering for 40 years in the Sinai Desert, the Visigoths settle in southern Gaul as foederati of the Romans in 418.

For unknown reasons, they soon fall out with their hosts and establish their own kingdom with its capital at Toulouse.