King Genseric leads the Vandals into Rome…

August 455 CE

King Genseric leads the Vandals into Rome after he has promised Pope Leo I not to burn and plunder the city.

The Vandals occupy the city for a fortnight, systematically plundering the temple on Capitoline Hill and other symbols of Roman power, including whatever the Visigoths might have left of such troves as the Second Temple treasure.

Eudoxia and her daughters, Eudocia and Placidia, are taken hostage.

The loot is send to the harbor of Ostia and loaded into ships, whence the Vandals depart and return to Carthage.

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Rome > Roma Lazio Italy View →

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Genseric View → Huneric View → Licinia Eudoxia View → Petronius Maximus View → Placidia View → Pope Leo I View → Princess Eudocia View →

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Italy, Praetorian prefecture of View → Roman Empire, Western (Ravenna) View → Italy, Diocese of View → Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse View → Vandals and the Alans, Kingdom of the View →

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Late Antiquity View → Migration Period View → Fall of the Western Roman Empire View → Famines and plagues 400 to 800 View → Vandal Raids on the Roman Empire View → Migration Period Pessimum View → Rome, Sack of (455) View →

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