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Huneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484
484

EventsBy PlaceEurope* December 28 ? Alaric II succeeds Euric as king of the Visigoths.* Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals....
) was King
King

King is a title for a head of state.King may also refer to:...
 of the Vandals
Vandals

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The Goths Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I....
 (477 – 484) and the oldest son of Geiseric
Geiseric

Genseric , also spelled as Gaiseric or Geiseric, was the King of the Vandals and Alans and was one of the key players in the troubles of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century....
. He dropped the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was married to Eudocia
Princess Eudocia

Eudocia, or Eudoxia was the eldest daughter of Roman emperor Valentinian III and his wife, Licinia Eudoxia. She was thus the granddaughter on her mother's side of Eastern emperor Theodosius II and his wife, the poet Aelia Eudocia; and on her father's side of Western emperor Constantius III and his wife Galla Placida....
, daughter of western Roman Emperor Valentinian III
Valentinian III

Flavius Placidus Valentinianus , known in English as Valentinian III, was among the last Western Roman Emperors ....
 (419–455) and Licinia Eudoxia
Licinia Eudoxia

Licinia Eudoxia was a Roman Emperors, daughter of Eastern Emperor Theodosius II and wife of the Western Emperors Valentinian III and Petronius Maximus....
. She left him probably in 472. She had one son with him, Hilderic
Hilderic

Hilderic, King of the Vandals and Alans was the pentultimate ruler of the North Africa during the Classical Period Kingdom of the Vandals. Although dead by the time the Vandal Kingdom was overthrown in 534, he nevertheless played a key role in that event....
.

Huneric was a fervent adherent to Arianism
Arianism

Arianism is the theological teaching of Arius , a Christian priest, who was first ruled a heresy at the First Council of Nicea, later exonerated and then pronounced a heretic again after his death....
. At the beginning of his reign, he allowed the election of a new Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 bishop of Carthage
Carthage

Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....
, Eugenius
Eugenius of Carthage

Saint Eugenius of Carthage was a Christian saint, unanimously elected Patriarchate of Carthage#Bishops of Carthage in 480 to succeed Deogratias ....
, but then started persecuting Catholics.






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Huneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484
484

EventsBy PlaceEurope* December 28 ? Alaric II succeeds Euric as king of the Visigoths.* Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals....
) was King
King

King is a title for a head of state.King may also refer to:...
 of the Vandals
Vandals

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The Goths Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I....
 (477 – 484) and the oldest son of Geiseric
Geiseric

Genseric , also spelled as Gaiseric or Geiseric, was the King of the Vandals and Alans and was one of the key players in the troubles of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century....
. He dropped the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was married to Eudocia
Princess Eudocia

Eudocia, or Eudoxia was the eldest daughter of Roman emperor Valentinian III and his wife, Licinia Eudoxia. She was thus the granddaughter on her mother's side of Eastern emperor Theodosius II and his wife, the poet Aelia Eudocia; and on her father's side of Western emperor Constantius III and his wife Galla Placida....
, daughter of western Roman Emperor Valentinian III
Valentinian III

Flavius Placidus Valentinianus , known in English as Valentinian III, was among the last Western Roman Emperors ....
 (419–455) and Licinia Eudoxia
Licinia Eudoxia

Licinia Eudoxia was a Roman Emperors, daughter of Eastern Emperor Theodosius II and wife of the Western Emperors Valentinian III and Petronius Maximus....
. She left him probably in 472. She had one son with him, Hilderic
Hilderic

Hilderic, King of the Vandals and Alans was the pentultimate ruler of the North Africa during the Classical Period Kingdom of the Vandals. Although dead by the time the Vandal Kingdom was overthrown in 534, he nevertheless played a key role in that event....
.

Huneric was a fervent adherent to Arianism
Arianism

Arianism is the theological teaching of Arius , a Christian priest, who was first ruled a heresy at the First Council of Nicea, later exonerated and then pronounced a heretic again after his death....
. At the beginning of his reign, he allowed the election of a new Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 bishop of Carthage
Carthage

Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....
, Eugenius
Eugenius of Carthage

Saint Eugenius of Carthage was a Christian saint, unanimously elected Patriarchate of Carthage#Bishops of Carthage in 480 to succeed Deogratias ....
, but then started persecuting Catholics. Furthermore, he tried to make Catholic property fall to the state, but when this caused too much protest from the Byzantine
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
 emperor, he chose to banish a number of Catholics to a faraway province instead. On February 1, 484
484

EventsBy PlaceEurope* December 28 ? Alaric II succeeds Euric as king of the Visigoths.* Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals....
 he organised a meeting of Catholic bishops with Arian bishops but on February 24, 484
484

EventsBy PlaceEurope* December 28 ? Alaric II succeeds Euric as king of the Visigoths.* Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals....
 he forcibly removed the Catholic bishops from their offices and banished some to Corsica
Corsica

Corsica is the Mediterranean islands#By area in the Mediterranean Sea . It is located west of Italy, southeast of the France mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
. A few were martyr
Martyr

The term martyr is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices his or her life in order to further a cause or belief for many....
ed, including the former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other wealthy merchants, who were killed at Hadrumetum
Hadrumetum

File:GiorcesBardo42.jpgHadrumetum was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage and stood on the site of modern-day Sousse, Tunisia....
 after refusing to become Arians.

Huneric also murdered many members of Hasdingi
Hasdingi

The Hasdingi were the southern tribes of the Vandals, an East Germanic tribe. They lived in areas of today's southern Poland, Slovakia and Hungary....
 dynasty and also persecuted Manichaeans
Manichaeism

Manichaeism was one of the major Iranian Gnosticism religions, originating in Sassanid Persia. Although most of the original writings of the founding prophet Mani have been lost, numerous translations and fragmentary texts have survived....
.

Huneric was the first Vandal king who used title of king of Vandals and Alans
Alans

The Alans or Alani were a group among the Sarmatians people, Eurasian nomads of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language which derived from Scytho-Sarmatian language and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian language....
. He was succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund
Gunthamund

Gunthamund , King of the Vandals and Alans was the third king of the north African Kingdom of the Vandals. He succeeded his unpopular uncle Huneric, and for that reason alone, enjoyed a rather successful reign....
 (reigned 484–496), and was little mourned by either the Vandals or their subjects due to his cruelty.

In his relations with other states, Huneric did not have the prestige that his father Geiseric had enjoyed. Nevertheless, the Vandals maintained their seapower and their hold on the islands of the western Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....
. But the Moors
Moors

In the Spanish language, the term for Moors is Moro; in Portuguese language the word is mouro. There seems to have been some confusion about the relationship of the word moro/mouro to the word moreno , both from Greek language ma?ros, i.e....
 in the inlands of Algeria
Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
, who had been quiet in Geiseric's days, managed to conquer some Vandal outposts in their area, thus severing the connection between the Vandal heartland around Carthage
Carthage

Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....
 and their westernmost possessions around Tangiers.