Information AboutGelimer |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT GELIMER | |
| 480 births | |
| 553 deaths | |
| history of north africa | |
| kings of the vandals | |
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The eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I , who had supported Hilderic, soon declared war on the Vandals, ostensibly to restore Hilderic but really to restore north Africa to the Roman Empire . Gelimer and the Vandals put up a stout resistance to the Roman general Belisarius and his army, but were defeated twice in 533 , at Ad Decimium and Ticameron . In 534 , realizing he had no chance of regaining his kingdom, Gelimer surrendered to Belisarius in a cowardly way, Gelimer grovelled at Belisarius 's feet and accepted the Romans' offer of vast estates within the empire. He achieved some degree of anecdotal fame, according to Byzantine chronicles, by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes , 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity,' which is mentioned in the works of Gibbon and Fielding . |
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