Innocent I was strangely absent when Alaric I of this ancient German group had Rome sacked
In 410 Alaric took Rome by starvation, sacked it for three days (there was 
relatively ... of the empire, and to Christians the seat of the heir of Saint Peter, 
Pope Innocent I, ... [134] All usurpers had been defeated, but large barbarian 
groups .... the enmity of Aetius, who may have been absent in Gaul at the time.