Geiseric

• Geiseric the Vandal (389-477 CE), also known as Genseric, was King of the Vandals between 428-477 CE.
• He built the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa which became a Sea Power.

Rise of Vandal Naval Power (428-477 CE)

• Between 428-477 CE, Geiseric created a Vandal Kingdom in North Africa with its capital at Carthage.
• In 429 CE, Procopius wrote that the Vandal Fleet transferred 80,000 Vandals from Gaul to North Africa.
• By 435 CE, the Vandal Kingdom was established with its Capital and Fleet based at Carthage.
• In 439 CE, The Vandal Fleet conquered Sicily, Malta, Sardinia and Corsica, which made the Vandals a Sea Power.

Second Sack of Rome (455 CE)

• In 455 CE Geiseric sent the Vandal Fleet off the coast of Rome, landed his army and undertook the second Sack of Rome.

Roman Fleets are sent to defeat the Vandal Fleet (456-468 CE)

• In 456 CE, a Western Roman Empire Fleet under Flavius Ricimer, defeated a Vandal Fleet off Corsica.
• But in 461 CE, at the Battle of Cartagena, the Vandal fleet destroyed a Western Roman Empire Fleet.
• In 468 CE, at the Battle of Cape Bon, the Vandal Fleet defeated a combined Eastern and Western Roman Empire Fleet off Tunisia.
• It was the last attempt to save the Western Roman Empire which fell in 476 CE.
• Geiseric died in 477 CE.