{"slug": "genseric", "label": "Genseric", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genseric", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 17, "years": 16, "span": [428, 477], "span_label": ["428 CE", "477 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 12}, {"slug": "mediterranean-sea", "label": "Mediterranean Sea", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "alans", "label": "Alans", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "africa-roman-province", "label": "Africa (Roman province)", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "mauretania", "label": "Mauretania", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "north-africa", "label": "North Africa", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "moors", "label": "Moors", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cereal", "label": "Cereal", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": 428, "year_label": "428 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Gunderic, age 49, dies after a reign of 21 years, and is succeeded by his half-brother Genseric. He is styled with the title Rex Wandalorum et Alanorum (\"King of the Vandals and Alans\"). Genseric increases his power and wealth in the residence of the province of Hispania Baetica (Southern Spain).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321157185#Europe", "title": "428", "revid": 1321157185, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 429, "year_label": "429 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – The Vandals, led by Genseric (\"Caesar King\"), invade North Africa. They land with a force of 80,000 men including Alans, and Germanic tribesmen with their families from the Iberian Peninsula, across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar. The Vandal fleet raids the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, and blockades the grain and oil supply to Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333669155#Roman_Empire", "title": "429", "revid": 1333669155, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 430, "year_label": "430 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Spring – The Vandals under King Genseric extend their power in North Africa along the Mediterranean Sea, and lay siege to Hippo Regius (where Augustine has recently been bishop).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370135052#Roman_Empire", "title": "430", "revid": 1370135052, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 431, "year_label": "431 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aspar is routed by the Vandals and Flavius Marcian, future Byzantine emperor, is captured during the fighting. He negotiates a peace with King Genseric and maintains imperial authority in Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311961439#Africa", "title": "431", "revid": 1311961439, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 435, "year_label": "435 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Genseric concludes a peace treaty with the Romans, under which the Vandals retain Mauretania and a part of Numidia as foederati (allies under a special treaty) of Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339038049#Africa", "title": "435", "revid": 1339038049, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 439, "year_label": "439 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Vandal War (439-442): King Genseric breaks his treaty with the Western Roman Empire and invades Africa Proconsularis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1307025237#Africa", "title": "439", "revid": 1307025237, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 440, "year_label": "440 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Vandal fleet and their allies (Alans, Goths and Moors) set out from Carthage for Sicily, the principal supplier of oil and grain to Italy after the loss of North Africa. They loot all the coastal towns and besiege Palermo. Heavily laden ships return to the court of King Genseric.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364748079#Africa", "title": "440", "revid": 1364748079, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 442, "year_label": "442 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "End of the Vandal War (439-442): Emperor Valentinian III signs a peace treaty with King Genseric, and recognises the Vandal Kingdom. He grants him sovereignty over most of Africa. Genseric gives back Sicily and Mauretania (Algeria and Morocco). This marks the end of the Vandal migrations; they settle in North Africa, with Carthage as their capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333113526#Africa", "title": "AD 442", "revid": 1333113526, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 444, "year_label": "444 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Eudocia, eldest daughter of Emperor Valentinian III, is betrothed to Huneric, son of Vandal King Genseric (hostage in Italy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1289774779#Europe", "title": "444", "revid": 1289774779, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 455, "year_label": "455 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 2", "text": "June 2 – Sack of Rome: King Genseric leads the Vandals into Rome, after he has promised Pope Leo I not to burn and plunder the city. Genseric sacks the city for a period of two weeks. Eudoxia and her daughters, Eudocia and Placidia, are taken hostage. The loot is sent to the harbour of Ostia and loaded into ships, from whence the Vandals depart and return to Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739434#Roman_Empire", "title": "455", "revid": 1364739434, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 460, "year_label": "460 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Genseric, fearing a Roman invasion, tries to negotiate peace with Majorian, who refuses. The Vandals devastate Mauretania and Moorish warriors poison the wells.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598361#Roman_Empire", "title": "460", "revid": 1360598361, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 461, "year_label": "461 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Vandal War (461-468): King Genseric continues the Vandal raids on the coast of Sicily and Italy. Ricimer sends an embassy to Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204937#Roman_Empire", "title": "461", "revid": 1349204937, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 467, "year_label": "467 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Vandal War (461-468): King Genseric extends his pirate raids in the Mediterranean Sea; the Vandals sack and enslave the people living in Illyricum, the Peloponnese and other parts of Greece. Leo I joins forces with the Western Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360138919#Roman_Empire", "title": "467", "revid": 1360138919, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 468, "year_label": "468 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Cape Bon: The Vandals defeat the Roman navy under Basiliscus, anchored at Promontorium Mercurii, 45 miles from Carthage (Tunisia). During peace negotiations Genseric uses fire ships, filling them with brushwood and pots of oil, destroying 700 imperial galleys. Basiliscus escapes with his surviving fleet to Sicily, harassed all the way by Moorish pirates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360138410#Roman_Empire", "title": "468", "revid": 1360138410, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 474, "year_label": "474 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Zeno sends an embassy, to conclude a peace with King Genseric. He succeeds in an agreement with the Vandals, to secure the commercial routes in the Mediterranean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360137662#Roman_Empire", "title": "474", "revid": 1360137662, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 477, "year_label": "477 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 25", "text": "January 25 – Genseric, king of the Vandals and Alans", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739274#Deaths", "title": "477", "revid": 1364739274, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 477, "year_label": "477 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 25", "text": "January 25 – Genseric, ruler of the Vandal Kingdom, dies a natural death at Carthage, and is succeeded by his eldest son Huneric. He maintains control over the islands in the western Mediterranean Sea with his Vandal fleet, and rescinds his father's policy of persecuting the Roman Catholics in Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739274#Africa", "title": "477", "revid": 1364739274, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}]}