Genseric

jen'ser-ik, a king of the Vandals in Spain. He died 477 A. D. In 429 he invaded Africa. In 439 he captured Carthage and made it the capital of a Vandal kingdom in Africa. In 455, in response to an appeal from a Roman faction, he invaded Italy. He gave Rome over to sack and pillage for fourteen days. He carried off numerous captives to Africa, including the empress Eudoxia and her daughters. He accepted the form of Christianity known as Arianism. It would now be called Unitarianism. He persecuted the Roman Catholics in his dominion, with a view to making Arianism the only faith. See Vandals