The Balts were a Gothic dynastic family. Their name derives from the Gothic term balþa (baltha), which means "bold". Its members are usually referred to as the Baltic, or Baltung, or Balthing.

The Baltic were one of the noble goths of the Goths who, like the Amals, came to royal dignity. As the Amor became King of the Ostrogoths, the Baltic with Alaricus, became King of the Visigoths, sacked in Rome in 410, and founded a kingdom in the Roman Gallia, which lasted a century and extended it to the Iberian Roman peninsula, where it lasted for about three centuries.

The Balti dynasty expressed, between 395 and 531, the following kings of Visigoths:

British historian Edward Gibbon, in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, cites that this lineage has left a trace in the Provincial Cup of Settimania in the bare applause of Baux; and a branch of this family is found in the kingdom of Naples. The lords of Baux, near Arles, and 79 subordinate towns, were independent of the accounts of Provence. Voices correlateemodify wikitesto

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