Massacre

Sack of Rome: King Genseric leads the Vandals into Rome

2 juin 455 · 41.90° N, 12.50° E

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2 juin 455
Type
Massacre
Coordonnées
41.90° N, 12.50° E

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Sack of Rome (455).

Résumé

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 for a period of two weeks. Eudoxia and her daughters, Eudocia and Placidia, are taken hostage. The loot is sent to the harbour of Ostia and loaded into ships, from whence the Vandals depart and return to Carthage.

Sack of Rome (455)

Sack of Rome by the Vandals and Alans (455)

The sack of Rome in 455 was carried out by the Vandals led by their king Gaiseric.

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