Gaiseric (Genseric) (King Of The Vandals In Spain & Africa) VANDALS

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• RULED: 428-477
• Name: Genseric King Of VANDALS
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From "The Dark Age Web", Mark Furnival, 1999: Gaiseric, also known asGenseric, was born around the year 400, the illegitimate son ofGodigiselus. Though rendered lame by a riding accident, he was to becomeone of the greatest, and most feared, of all barbarian warlords, and ledhis people, the Vandals, to the height of their power.

Gaiseric's brother, Guntheric, was King of the Vandals in 428 when,constructing a great fleet, that peoples crossed from Spain intoMauretania - the largest recorded sea-borne movement of barbarians in allthe V?lkerwanderung period. Guntheric, however, died before these planscame to fruition and it was left to Gaiseric to lead the enterprise. Hedefeated the Roman general, Bonifatius, then seized Carthage, which hemade the capital of an empire which encompassed much of North Africa.

In 455, he used the death of the western Emperor Valentinian III as apretext to attack the undefended city of Rome itself, which his warriorspillaged for fourteen days. He took the later Emperor's widow, Eudoxiaand her two daughters hostage, treating them as slaves. From here he wenton to lay waste to Dalmatia and Greece. Eventually, the eastern EmperorZeno was forced to recognise Gaiseric and made peace with him in 476,just a year before the king's death.

But for all the savagery of his warriors and his own ruthlessness,Gaiseric was a greatly respected leader - he was both an able militaryleader and a skillful diplomat. A hundred years later he would beremembered in folklore as the cleverest of men. Still, he was moreinterested in pillage than in building a lasting domain, integrating intoits new surroundings, and the empire he forged proved to be moretransient than most.

As a devoted Arian, he bore an uncompromising hatred of the Catholicchurch (according to one story he was an apostate from the Catholicfaith), and this may go some way to explaining the fury of his warriors'pillaging; Gaiseric was more than eager to humiliate the Catholic RomanEmpire. Churches and priests were a special target of the Vandalinvaders.

He was succeeded by his son, Hunneric (477-484) and almost at once hisNorth African empire began to disintegrate, being finally destroyed byBelisarios in 533.

King of the Vandals from 428-477. When his half-brother died , Gaisericbecame King of the Vandals. As he was a brilliant general, he took thebeaten Vandals out of Gaul, sailed to Africa, and there set up a kingdom.He created the first Vandal fleet and conquered north Africa, Sardinia,etc. When he died in 477 the Moorish vassal kingdoms on the borderrevolted.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hunneric (King Of The African Vandals) was born in 440 in Carthage, Tunisia, Africa; died in 484 in Carthage, Tunisia, Africa.
2. Genzo Of The Vandals was born in 445; and died.

Gaiseric married Licinia Eudoxia Of The Eastern Roman Empire after 455. Licinia (daughter of Theodosius II (Emperor Of The Eastern Roman Empire - 408-450) and Eudocia (Athenais) Of Athens) was born in 422 in Constantinople, Turkey; died in in Constantinople, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Radagaisus married Cella Of The Vandals. Cella was born in 338 in Hungary; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Heruli were a Germanic people originally from Scandinavia. Theyraided towns in the Roman Empire, scoring their greatest success in AD267, when they captured Byzantium and sacked Greek cities [includingAthens]. Two years later, the eastern Heruli were crushingly defeated bythe Roman emperor Claudius II Gothicus in a battle near Naissus (modernNis, Yugos). From then until the mid-6th century, when they vanishedfrom history, their fortunes varied. They were subjugated first byErmanaric the Goth, then by Huns. Their kingdom on the middle Danube,founded in the late 5th century, fell to the Lombards early in the 6thcentury. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]

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