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Gaiseric (Genseric) (King Of The Vandals In Spain & Africa) VANDALS
400 - 477 (77 years)-
Name Gaiseric (Genseric) (King Of The Vandals In Spain & Africa) VANDALS Birth 400 Baetica, Andalusia, Spain 
Gender Male RULED 428-477 Name Genseric King Of VANDALS _UID D02C885CCEB54E46B0E877CDB979B450094B Death 477 Carthage, Tunisia, Africa Person ID I26694 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 5 Feb 2012
Father Gondeguslus (Corisco) (King Of The Vandals), b. 360, Hungary d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F11930 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Children 1. Hunneric (King Of The African Vandals), b. 440, Carthage, Tunisia, Africa d. 484, Carthage, Tunisia, Africa (Age 44 years)2. Genzo Of The Vandals, b. 445 d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F11931 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
Family 2 Licinia Eudoxia Of The Eastern Roman Empire, b. 422, Constantinople, Turkey d. Constantinople, Turkey Marriage Aft 455 Family ID F11932 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
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Notes - 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 Völkerwanderung 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.
- 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.