Kings of the Vandals

Gaiseric ( – 25 January 477 AD), also known as Geiseric or Genseric (; reconstructed Vandalic: ) was king of the Vandals and Alans from 428 to 477 AD. He ruled over the Vandal kingdom and played a key role in the decline of the Western Roman Empire during the 5th century.

thumb|The missorium (silver dish) of Gelimer (Bibliothèque nationale de France) Gelimer (original form possibly Geilamir, 480–553 AD), was a Germanic king who ruled the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa during classical antiquity from 530 to 534 AD. He became ruler on 15 June 530 AD after deposing his first cousin twice removed, Hilderic, who had angered the Vandal nobility by converting to Chalcedonian Christianity; most Vandals at the time were fierce Arian Christians.

thumb|Coin of Huneric Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484 AD) was King of the North African Vandal Kingdom (477–484 AD) and the oldest son of Gaiseric. He abandoned the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was married to Eudocia, daughter of western Roman Emperor Valentinian III (419–455 AD) and Licinia Eudoxia. The couple had one child, a son named Hilderic.

thumb|A coin struck in Hilderic's name (Hildirix) and bearing his effigy. Hilderic (Latin: Flavius Hildericus) (460s – 533) was the penultimate king of the Vandals and Alans in North Africa in Late Antiquity (523–530). Although dead by the time the Vandal Kingdom was overthrown in 534, he nevertheless played a key role in that event.

thumb|Denarius silver coin of Gunthamund Gunthamund (c. 450–496), King of the Vandals and Alans (484–496) was the third king of the north African Vandal Kingdom. He succeeded his unpopular uncle Huneric, and for that reason alone, enjoyed a rather successful reign.

Gunderic (; 379 – 428), King of Hasding Vandals (407–418), then King of Vandals and Alans (418–428), led the Hasding Vandals, a Germanic tribe originally residing near the Oder River, to take part in the barbarian invasions of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century.

Godigisel ( 359 – 406) was King of the Hasdingi Vandals until his death in 406. It is unclear when or how he became king; however, in 405 he formed and led a coalition of Germanic peoples, including the Hasdingi Vandals, Silingi Vandals, Suebi, and others from Pannonia with the intention of invading Roman Gaul. Before crossing the Rhine River into Gaul, he was killed in the Vandal–Frankish war, possibly in late 406. Shortly after his death (traditionally dated to 31 December 406), this group of Vandals and their allies crossed the Rhine, possibly while it was frozen, into the territory of the

thumb|Thrasamund's effigy on a silver denarius coin thumb|Writing on a church vault in El gousset, Fériana|Feriana region, [[Tunisia, dated from the 26th year of the reign of King Thrasamund (522 AD). The name of the king is visible on the lower right. Archeological museum of Sbeitla]] Thrasamund (450 – 523), became King of the Vandals and Alans in 496, the fourth king in a line of rulers over the North African Kingdom of the Vandals. He was the son of Gento and the grandson of the Vandal Kingdom's founder, Gaiseric. Thrasamund ruled longer than any other Vandal king in Africa aside from his g

Wisimar or Visimar (?-335) was a Vandal ruler of the Hasdingi tribe during the 4th century in Europe. Although this historical figure is overwhelmingly shadowed by a lack of historical data, he is noted as one of the early monarchs of the Vandals. His territorial extent occupied regions of today's Transilvania in Romania, Tisza in Ukraine and a part of then-Roman province Dacia. It is most likely that he died during the neighboring Visigoth breakthrough of Geberic in 335.

Fredebal, also spelled as Fredbal or Fredbalus, was a king of the Vandals during the 5th century.