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Gaiseric

noun
1.
King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).  Synonym: Genseric.






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... the foe was at the gates of his city. In 439 Carthage fell, and Roman civilisation was extinguished. The rule of the Vandals was not only Arian but barbarous. It is not unlikely that their victory was won with the aid of the remaining Donatists and the heathen Moors. With the reign of Gaiseric some degree of toleration was allowed to the Catholic Church, but the persecution which had marked the earlier days of the Arian power now took the form of confiscation and the suppression of public worship. The Church ...
— The Church and the Barbarians - Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 • William Holden Hutton



Words linked to "Gaiseric" :   Rex, king, male monarch, Genseric



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