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The sack of Rome in 455, was carried out by the Vandals led by their king Gaiseric.. A peace treaty between the Western Roman Empire and Vandal Kingdom included a marriage of state between the daughter of Roman Emperor Valentinian III and the son of Gaiseric.
A more severe sack of Rome by the Vandals followed in 455, and the Western Roman Empire finally collapsed in 476 when the Germanic Odovacer removed the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and declared himself King of Italy.
Sack of Rome (455), by the Vandals under Gaiseric; Sack of Rome (546), by the Ostrogoths under King Totila; Siege of Rome (549–550), also by Totila; Sack of Rome (846), by the Arabs; Sack of Rome (1084), by the adventurer Robert Guiscard's Normans; Sack of Rome (1527), by mercenary troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
The Vandals' traditional reputation: a coloured steel engraving of the Sack of Rome (455) by Heinrich Leutemann (1824–1904), c. 1860–80. Since the Middle Ages, kings of Denmark were styled "King of Denmark, the Goths and the Wends", the Wends being a group of West Slavs formerly living in Mecklenburg and eastern Holstein in modern Germany.
Across Italy, the shock of the Vandal sack of Rome and the ongoing presence of the Vandals paralyzed the imperial government. [30] [e] Eudocia married Gaiseric's son Huneric after arriving in Carthage. [38] That union produced Hilderic—Gaiseric's grandson—who later played a critical role in Emperor Justinian's sixth-century conquests of ...
The Sack of Rome, painting by Karl Briullov from the 1830s. The peace treaty of 442 did not halt Vandal raids in the western Mediterranean. Over the next 35 years, Gaiseric used his large naval fleet to loot the coasts of both the Eastern and Western Empires.
The fall of Rome in 476 is a historical turning point that was invented nearly 50 years later as a pretext for a devastating war. Rome Didn't Fall When You Think It Did. Here's Why That Fabricated ...
455, Sack of Rome by Vandals, Capture of Empress Licinia Eudoxia by Vandals. 456, Visigoths defeat the Suebic Kingdom of Galicia in the Battle of Órbigo. 458, Emperor Majorian leads the Roman army to a victory over the Vandals near Sinuessa, [105] Roman victory over the Visigoths in southern Gaul in the Battle of Arelate.