Gunthamund (450-496)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/58229
- Name (English)
- Gunthamund
- Short name
- Gunthamund
- Year of birth
- 450
- Year of death
- 496
- Short Description
- "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.
Gunthamund was the second son born to Gento, the fourth and youngest son of Genseric, the founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. Because most of Genseric´s immediate family was dead, his elder brothers having been murdered by Huneric, Gunthamund found himself as the eldest male member of the family when Huneric died on 23 December 484. In accordance with his grandfather´s laws on succession, which decreed that the oldest member of the family would be the successor, he was proclaimed king." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.01.2020) - Entity Encoding
- pik
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