The Children of Adam and Eve

(also Genseric) He was king at the time of their greatest power. In 429
he led all his people from Spain to Africa. The Roman general in Africa,
Bonifacius (died 432), tried vainly to turn the Vandals back, but was
defeated and forced to flee to Italy. After a triumphant progress aCross
northern Africa, the Vandals captured Carthage in 439, and Gaiseric made
the city his capital. Vandal fleets raided Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica.
In 455 Gaiseric used the Death of the Roman emperor Valentinian III as a
pretext for the invasion of Rome. The city was undefended, and the Vandals
entered it peacefully, pillaged it for 14 days, and carried away its
treasures. When he withdrew, Gaiseric took as hostages Valentinian's
widow, the empress Eudoxia, and her two daughters, along with Roman
citizens, who were treated as slaves. He then led his armies Eastward,
laying waste to Greece and Dalmatia and threatening Constantinople. Two
major attempts to subdue the Vandals, by the Western Roman emperor
Majorian (reigned 457-61) in 457 and by the Eastern Roman emperor Leo I
(400?-74) in 468, were unsuccessful. The Eastern emperor Zeno was forced
to recognize Gaiseric and make peace with him in 476. Gaiseric was
succeeded by his son Hunneric, under whom the African empire of the
Vandals began to disintegrate.