General Notes

Genseric, Vandal King of Spain in 419, invaded Africa and conquered Carthage in 437, plundered Rome in 456, doing irreparable damage to monuments and sculptures. Although wanton destruction came to be known as vandalism, he promised to spare the city from fire and the people from massacre, and kept his word.

He married Eudoxia the Elder, widow of Valentinian III, whom he captured in battle with her daughter Eudoxia the younger. He married Eudoxia the younger to his son Huneric.

# Event: Titled BET 428 AND 477 Reiks (King) of the Vandals
# Event: Titled "Gaisureiks" - "Spear-King"
# Event: Titled Rex Wandalorum et Alanorum
# Event: Titled BET 428 AND 477 King of the Alans (Alanos)
# Event: Event AFT 406 Built a Vandal fleet.
# Event: Event 428 Elected King of the Vandals after his half-brother Gunderic's death.
# Event: Event 429 Afraid of Theodoric I, King of the Visigoths, he moved with 80,000 Vandals and some Alans (Alanos) to Africa.
# Event: Event 429 Allied with Boniface, Roman Governor of North Africa, who had rebelled against the Emperor Honorius
# Event: Event 430 Laid seige to the city of Hippo Regius (modern Annaba, Algeria)
# Event: Event 431 Captured Hippo Regius (modern Annaba, Algeria)
# Event: Event 432 Emperor Valentinian III recognized Gaiseric as the king of the lands that he had conquered in North Africa (much of Morocco and northern Algeria)
# Event: Event 19 OCT 439 Seized Carthage and captured a large portion of the western Roman navy.
# Event: Event BET 439 AND 442 Took Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearic Islands
# Event: Event 442 Rome forced to recognize the Vandal Empire as a separate, independent Empire.
# Event: Event 475 Demanded recognition of the title "Rex Wandalorum et Alanorum" from the envoys of Emperor Zeno
# Religion: Arianism
# Note:

    From 427 their king was Genseric (Gaiseric), who in 429 landed in North Africa with about 80,000 of his followers. It is a disputed point whether or not he was called to Africa by the Roman governor Boniface on account of the intrigues of Aetius. Peace was made between the Romans and Vandals in 435 but it was broken by Genseric in 439, who made Carthage his capital after he had thoroughly plundered it. During the next thirty-five years with a large fleet he ravaged the coasts of the Eastern and Western Empires. In 455 he plundered Rome itself during two weeks. It is asserted that the Empress Eudoxia had asked him to free her from her hated marriage with the Emperor Petronius Maximus, the murderer of her husband Valentinian III.