The remaining forces in Spain, further reduced …
Years: 409 - 409
October
The remaining forces in Spain, further reduced by the removal of soldiers to fight in the civil war that follows the attempt by Constantine to seize power from Honorius, are unable to provide much resistance to the Vandals, Alans, Suevi, and Buri, who sweep across the Pyrenees in late 409.
Constantine's magister militum, Gerontius, is able to restore control over the situation in Spain, obtaining for the invading Vandals, Alans, and Suebi imperial permission to settle there, but now revolts against Constantine.
Constantine's control of Britain and Spain is thus lost.
Locations
People
Groups
- Alans (Sarmatian tribal grouping)
- Vandals (East Germanic tribe)
- Hispania Tarraconensis (Roman province)
- Goths (East Germanic tribe)
- Buri (Germanic tribe)
- Britain, Roman
- Suebi (Suevi), Realms of the
- Spains, Diocese of the
- Gaul, Diocese of
- Visigoths, Realm of the
- Gaul, Praetorian prefecture of
- Roman Empire, Western (Ravenna)
- Suebic Kingdom of Galicia
Topics
- Migration Period
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire
- Famines and plagues 400 to 800
- Vandal Raids on the Roman Empire
- Visigothic Raids on the Roman Empire, Later
