Fredebal

Fredebal, also spelled as Fredbal or Fredbalus, was a king of the Vandals during the 5th century.

King of the Siling Vandals, he was taken prisoner without any conflict in Baetica (416) by a trick of Wallia, king of the Visigoths, in the Gothic war in Spain. Fredebal was sent to Roman Emperor Honorius in Ravenna.

References

  1. ↑ Martindale, John R., ed. (1980). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume II, AD 395–527. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 484. ISBN 0-521-20159-4.
  2. ↑ Barbarian tides: the migration age and the later Roman Empire, Walter A. Goffart (2006)

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