Vandals

then the vandals invaded and took the islands of the mediterranean sicily sardinia corusca abusus majorca minorca c and regimer besieged emperor antimus in rome took the city and gave his soldiers the plunder a c four seventy two the visigoths about the same time drove the romans out of spain

and now the western emperor the great star which fell from heaven burning as it were a lamp

having by all these wars gradually lost almost all his dominions was invaded and conquered in one year by auduacher king of the herule a c four seventy six After this, the Moors revolted, AC 477, and weakened the Vandals by several wars, and took Marantania from them.

These wars continued till the Vandals were conquered by Belisarius, AC 534, and by all these wars Africa was almost depopulated, according to Procopius.

who reckons that above five millions of men perished in them when the vandals first invaded africa that country was very populous consisting of about seven hundred bishoprics more than were in all france spain and italy together but by the wars between the vandals romans and moors it was depopulated to that degree that procopius tells us it was next to a miracle for a traveller to see a man in pouring out the third vial it is said thou art righteous o

lord because thou hast judged thus for they have shed the blood of thy saints and prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink

Theodoric, thereupon, led his nation into Italy.

conquered oedica and reigned over italy sicily ratia noricum dalmatia liburnia istria and part of suavia pannonia and gallia whence onodius said in a panegyric to theodoric ad limitum sum romana regna theodoric reigned with great prudence moderation and felicity treated the romans with singular benevolence governed them by their own laws and restored their government under the senate and consuls he himself supplying the place of emperor without assuming the title itta cibi parentibus prae fut saith et vera impetori conviennes decus nullum ipsi apese gestitiae mannus e cultus legium diligence terras evicinis barbarus servavit intactus c whence i do not reckon the reign of this king amongst the plagues of the four winds The plague of the northern wind, at the sounding of the fourth trumpet, was to cause the sun, moon, and stars, that is, the king, kingdom, and princes of the western empire, to be darkened and to continue some time in darkness.

In each of the two German kingdoms with which he had first to deal, power had passed within those six years into the hands of a weak and incapable sovereign.

In Africa, Hilderic, the king of the Vandals, had been dethroned by his cousin Gelimer, a warlike and ambitious but very incapable ruler.

In Italy, Theodoric, the great king of the Ostrogoths, had died in AD 526, and his grandson and successor, Athalaric, in AD 533.

After the death of the young Athalaric, the kingdom fell to his mother, Amanlasantha, and she, compelled by Gothic public opinion to take a husband to rule in her behalf, had unwisely wedded Theodehat, her nearest kinsman.

Cowardly and avaricious as well as ungrateful, Theodehat possessed exactly those vices which were most suited to making him the scorn of his warlike subjects.

He could count neither on their loyalty nor their respect in the event of a war.

Both the Vandals in Africa and the Goths in Italy were at this time so weak as to invite an attack by an enterprising neighbour.

They had in fact conquered larger realms than their limited numbers were really able to control.

We see them, family folk, sober and industrious and God-fearing, all about us.

They are not Huns or Vandals.

And all the knowledge we have of a nation gone mad to order hardly counteracts the effect of the friendly human contacts of our daily lives with the Germans we know.

We forget that the German we know has come here to escape the very things that has wrecked the old world.

The cities willingly opened their gates, and the diseased civilization of Roman Spain yielded with hardly a blow.

The truth was that the road of Goth had been too well prepared by previous hordes of barbarians, Alans, Vandals, and Suevi, to need much exertion on their own parts.

The Romanized Spaniard had fully learned what a barbarian invasion entailed.

They had seen their cities burned, their wives and children carried captives, those few leaders who showed any manly resistance massacred.

You have,

uh, I think it was Raos and Raptos for the, the Vandals and Ebor and Aio for the Lombards.

Right.

It's this recurring pattern.

There was a last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, who ruled the empire for less than a year before being deposed and sent into exile by Odoacer, who was some kind of barbarian, we don't know for sure.

Ostrogoth, Hun, Visigoth, Vandals, they all look the same to the Romans.

Rome had been sacked by barbarians before, most notably by Alaric the Visigoth in 410.

Is it Alaric or Alaric? The dictionary says Alaric, but the vampire diaries say Alaric, so I'm gonna go with Alaric.