Notes for Gaiseric: Genseric, called "The Rod of God," Vandal King of Spain in 419. He invaded Africa and conquered Carthage in 437, plundered Rome in 456, doing irreparable damage to monuments and sculptures. So reckless were they that to this day we speak of the wanton destruction of property as vandalism, yet he promised to spare the city from fire and the people from massacre, and he kept his word. He died in 477, having married (2) Eudoxia the Elder, widow of Valentinian III., whom in battle he captured with her daughter, Eudoxia. He married Eudoxia the Elder as his second wife and the younger he married to his son, Huneric. By his first wife, name unknown, he had Hunneric.
King of the Vandals Gaiseric (d. 477)
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