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The Vandals landed at Ostia, located at the mouth of the Tiber only a few miles southwest of Rome. Maximus tried to flee Rome, but was spotted by an angry mob and stoned to death before being thrown into the Tiber. [11] Before approaching, the Vandals knocked down the aqueducts that supplied water to the city. [12]
May 31 – Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. A widespread panic occurs when many citizens hear the news that the Vandals are plundering the Italian mainland. June 2 – Sack of Rome: King Genseric leads the Vandals into Rome, after he has promised Pope Leo I not to burn and plunder the city. Genseric sacks the city ...
This was the first time in almost 800 years that Rome had fallen to a foreign enemy, and the sack was a major shock to contemporaries, friends and foes of the Empire alike. The sacking of 410 is seen as a major landmark in the fall of the Western Roman Empire .
Sack of Rome (455), by the Vandals under Gaiseric; Sack of Rome (546), by the Ostrogoths under King Totila; Siege of Rome (549–550), also by Totila; Sack of Rome (846), by the Arabs; Sack of Rome (1084), by the adventurer Robert Guiscard's Normans; Sack of Rome (1527), by mercenary troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
The Vandals departed with countless valuables, including the spoils of the Temple in Jerusalem booty brought to Rome by Titus. Eudoxia and her daughters were taken to Carthage, [18] where Eudocia married Huneric shortly thereafter. [citation needed] The sack of Rome earned the Vandals association with senseless destruction through the noun ...
410, 24 August – Sack of Rome – Visigoths under Alaric sacked Rome. [17] [16] 413 – Siege of Massilia – Visigoths under Ataulf were defeated by Romans under Bonifacius while trying to besiege the Roman city. They made peace with Rome soon after. 419 – Battle of the Nervasos Mountains – Western Romans and Suebi defeat Vandals and Alans.
A depiction of the sack of Rome by the Vandals. On 2 June 455, three days after Maximus' death, Geiseric captured the city of Rome and sacked it for two weeks. Amidst the pillaging and looting of the city, and in response to the pleas of Pope Leo I, the Vandals are said to have refrained from arson, torture, and murder. [25]
455, Sack of Rome by Vandals, Capture of Empress Licinia Eudoxia by Vandals. 456, Visigoths defeat the Suebic Kingdom of Galicia in the Battle of Órbigo. 458, Emperor Majorian leads the Roman army to a victory over the Vandals near Sinuessa, [105] Roman victory over the Visigoths in southern Gaul in the Battle of Arelate.