{"slug": "huneric", "label": "Huneric", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huneric", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81140", "qid": "Q81140", "description": "King of the Vandals", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [435, 484], "span_label": ["435 CE", "484 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "eudocia-daughter-of-valentinian-iii", "label": "Eudocia (daughter of Valentinian III)", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "vandal-kingdom", "label": "Vandal Kingdom", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "valentinian-iii", "label": "Valentinian III", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "genseric", "label": "Genseric", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ravenna", "label": "Ravenna", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "military-alliance", "label": "Military alliance", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "toulouse", "label": "Toulouse", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theodoric-i", "label": "Theodoric I", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 435, "year_label": "435 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Huneric, eldest son of Genseric, is sent as a child hostage to the court at Ravenna to secure the alliance with the Western Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339038049#Africa", "title": "435", "revid": 1339038049, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 442, "year_label": "442 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Valentinian III forms a marriage proposal for his eldest daughter Eudocia and Genseric's son Huneric. He is already married to a Visigoth princess, and Genseric decides to free him of his obligations by accusing her of trying to poison him. He leaves her mutilated - her ears and nose are cut off - and sends her back to her father Theodoric I, in Toulouse (Gaul).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333113526#Europe", "title": "AD 442", "revid": 1333113526, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"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": 451, "year_label": "451 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Eudocia, daughter of Emperor Valentinian III, marries Huneric in Ravenna. The engagement serves to strengthen the alliance between the Western Roman Empire and the Vandal Kingdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361438720#Europe", "title": "451", "revid": 1361438720, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"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"}}, {"year": 484, "year_label": "484 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 24", "text": "February 24 – King Huneric passes the Edict of 484, a law banning Catholicism within the Vandal Kingdom. A few weeks later, King Huneric removes Catholic bishops from their offices and banishes some to Corsica. A few are martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants. They are killed at Hadrumetum after refusing to become Arians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749511#Africa", "title": "484", "revid": 1364749511, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 484, "year_label": "484 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 23", "text": "December 23 – Huneric, king of the Vandals", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749511#Deaths", "title": "484", "revid": 1364749511, "section": "Deaths"}}]}