Vandals-rise+Events+&+Leaders

Leaders- Kings[[image:Picture_8.png width="251" height="235" align="right" caption=""Hands of God", symbol of the early ethnic religions of the Slavs and Germanic Vandals."]]

 * Wisimar (d. 355)
 * Godigisel (359-406)
 * Gungeric (407-428)
 * Gieseric (428-477)
 * Huneric (477-484)
 * Gunthamuna (484-496)
 * Thrasamund (496-523)
 * Hilderic (523-530)
 * Gelimer (530-534)


 * A.D. 409 the Vandals, under the leadership of Gunderic crossed the pyrenees into Spain.
 * in 428 or 429 Bonfacius, the count of Africa, who was having a quarrel with his government at Rome, invited the Vandals to settle in his province. more that 80,000 of them went over to Africa under their king Genseric
 * the Vandals proceeded to conquer northern Africa for themselves
 * by 430 only the cities of Cathage, Hippo, and Cirta were holding out against them.
 * in 435 they Vandals made a treaty with Rome under which Carthage and the surrounding province were to remain Roman.
 * in 439 Genseric seized Carthage and reigned over all Roman Africa.- he was more interested in robbery that he was in making conquests. her persecuted the Catholic Christians, looted and burned the churches, and tortured the priests until they revealed the hiding places of the church treasures.
 * in 455 Eudoxia, widow of the Emperor Valentinian, made the same mistake as Bonifacius. - she invited Genseric to give her his support at Rome, Genseric occupied the city, and looted it for 14 days. He did now burn the city, or harm the buildings since there was no resistance. he just simply took back to Africa pretty much everything that was not nailed down
 * in 477 Genseric was succeeded by his son Hunneric.
 * Hilderic became king in 523. -was a Catholic and restored the bishops to their churches.
 * Belisarius landed in Africa at the head of Byzantine army in 533.
 * when the Sardinian army returned, the Vandals met him with their full strength a Tiracameron. After a stubborn battle, they were defeated, and Gelimer took to flight, surrendering in 534. Many of the Vandals were taken into Byzantine army and the rest disappeared from history.

Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals