Gaiseric

Gaiseric became king of the Vandals and Alans in 428 AD and spent nearly fifty years dismantling Roman authority from North Africa. When Emperor Valentinian III — who had promised his daughter to Gaiseric's son Huneric — was murdered, the Vandal king invaded Italy and plundered Rome in June 455. Rome tried twice to take back North Africa: Gaiseric crushed Majorian's forces in 460 and shattered Basiliscus in 468. After that, both halves of the Roman Empire gave up and made peace. He died in Carthage on 25 January 477, leaving his son Huneric a kingdom where there had been a tribe.