Hilderic
Sign in to savethumb|A coin struck in Hilderic's name (Hildirix) and bearing his effigy. Hilderic (Latin: Flavius Hildericus) (460s – 533) was the penultimate king of the Vandals and Alans in North Africa in Late Antiquity (523–530). Although dead by the time the Vandal Kingdom was overthrown in 534, he nevertheless played a key role in that event.
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thumb|A coin struck in Hilderic's name (Hildirix) and bearing his effigy. Hilderic (Latin: Flavius Hildericus) (460s – 533) was the penultimate king of the Vandals and Alans in North Africa in Late Antiquity (523–530). Although dead by the time the Vandal Kingdom was overthrown in 534, he nevertheless played a key role in that event.
== Life == Hilderic was the grandson of king Gaiseric, founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Gaiseric's son Huneric, and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III and Licinia Eudoxia. Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Chalcedonians, but Hilderic favored Chalcedonianism as the religion of his mother, making his accession to the throne controversial. Soon after becoming king, Hilderic had his predecessor's widow, Amalafrida, imprisoned; he escaped war with her brother, the Gothic king Theoderic the Great, only by virtue of the latter's death in 526.