| |
| | Early Vandal (DBA II/66) |
 | | Unable to expel the barbarian invader, facing Constantine III's revolt in Britain, and anxious to preserve Italy and the Mediterranean provinces from barbarian incursion, Rome offered the Siling Vandals "hospitalitas" status as "guests" of the Gallo-Roman landowners in northwestern Gaul, who were forced to turn over 2/3s of their crops to the occupying Vandals. |
 | | Whether compelled by the arrival of Constantine's British army, pressed by the Franks, or just anxious for new lands to pillage, the Vandals, Alans and Suebi regrouped and migrated south through Gaul, crossing the Pyrenees into Spain by 409 AD. |
 | | At this time, Roman forces in Spain had declared for Constantine, and when he proved unable to assist them against the invaders, they raised the equally ineffectual Maximus to the purple. |
| www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/II66.html (1399 words) |
|