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| 3. The Vandals |
| 406 |
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| The Vandals crossed the Rhine near the Main, followed the Moselle and Aisne (sacking Reims, Amiens, Arras, Tournai), then turned southward into Aquitaine, and crossed the Pyrenees into Spain (409). | 1 |
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| 429–534 |
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| The Vandal Kingdom in Africa. The Vandals and Alani had been established in southern Spain under Gunderic. His brother Gaiseric received an appeal from Bonifatius, the Roman governor of Africa, following which the Vandals (perhaps 80,000 in number) crossed into Africa (429). | 2 |
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| 430 |
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| The first siege of Hippo in North Africa failed, but Bonifatius, now reconciled to the regency of Galla Placidia, was annihilated, and the city fell (431). St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, died during the siege. The creation of a great Vandal power in Africa, supported as it soon was by a powerful navy, distracted the attention of the Roman government from the new barbarian kingdoms of the west and had a decisive effect of a negative kind. | 3 |
| In Africa the Vandals spared nothing, and the treaty made with the Romans was no restraint. After the arrival of a fleet from Constantinople, a second treaty was made. Eudocia, daughter of Valentinian, was betrothed to Gaiseric's son, Huneric, and the Vandals received most of the Roman territory except the region about Carthage. | 4 |
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| 455 |
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| Gaiseric attacked Rome, on the invitation (according to tradition) of Valentinian's widow, Eudoxia. He took it easily, and for two weeks pillaged the city. | 5 |
| In Africa the Vandals were hated as Arians, and they had to deal with serious Berber revolts. | 6 |
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| 533–48 |
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| Power was held by the Vandals until the Vandalic Wars of Justinian. Belisarius quickly defeated the Carthaginian power of the Vandals; the ensuing Berber revolt was not put down until 548. | 7 |
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