Hermeric König der Sueben II

• Preferred Name: Hermeric König der Sueben II^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Life Sketch: with note: Description: After seven years of illness, Hermeric was forced to retire from the kingship in 438 and pass it on to his son Rechila.
  
• Birth: 372 in Germania Magna, Barbarian Kingdoms at LATI: N1.5 LONG: E0
  
• Life Sketch: 406 with note: Description: Hermeric led the Suevi across the frozen Rhine along with the Vandals and Alans in December 406. They crossed Gaul and the Pyrenees and settled in the Hispania.
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of the SueviBET 409 AND 438 in Galicia, Hispania at LATI: N2.75 LONG: E7.8833 with note: He abdicated the throne in 438 due to illness and died in 441
  
• Death: 441 in Kingdom of the Suevi, Galicia, Hispania at LATI: N2.75 LONG: E7.8833
  
• Life Sketch: with note: Description: Hermeric was an enemy of the Roman Empire throughout his life.
  
• Religion: Pagan
  
• Life Sketch: with note: Description: Hermeric is given a reign of thirty two years in most manuscripts of Isidore of Seville's Historia Suevorum, but fourteen years in one manuscript.
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: He established himself as Hermerico, King of the Suevi in Galicia, HispaniaAFT 411 with note: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: HERMANRICH .
  
• Life Sketch: BET 416 AND 418 with note: Description: The Visigoths under Wallia made war on Hermeric on behalf of Rome.
  
• FSID: LDZ2-28M
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeric
  
  The History Files
  
  Suevi Kingdom of Gallaecia (Spain)
  
  The tribes that breached the Rhine defences in 406 initially attempted to settle in southern Gaul between 406-409. During this time the Vandali and Alani ravaged Roman Gaul, migrating slowly southwards, while the Suevi migrated in step with them but perhaps with less violence. All three tribes entered Spain by 409, disrupting the Gallic empire of Constantine III of Britain and quickly conquering opposition from the Romano-Iberians in the region. According to some claims, they swore fealty to Emperor Honorius and were accepted as foederati (although in truth there was little the emperor could do to prevent their settling). In reality, there is no evidence of this and Hermeric was anti-Roman all his life.
  
  The three tribes divided the country between themselves. The Asding Vandali and Suevi took the Roman province of Gallaecia (Galicia and the north of modern Portugal), situated in the north-western corner of Iberia, the Alani gained Lusitania in the south-west (the main part of Portugal), and the Siling Vandali took Baetica in the south. The Roman city of Bracara Augusta (modern Braga in northern Portugal), the capital of Gallaecia, became the Suevi capital. The small group of Buri that was included in the Suevi numbers settled the region between the rivers Cávado and Homem, in the area now known as Terras de Bouro ('Lands of the Buri'). Out of the three main groups, only the Suevi kingdom prospered and was relatively stable despite occasional squabbles with its neighbours, surviving independently until 585. The Germanic incomers quickly settled down to farm the land and absorb the local language and culture, until only their Germanic names remained to mark them out.
  
  409 - 438-Hermeric, Led the Suevi to Galicia and founded the kingdom. Abdicated.
  
  416
  The Siling Vandali are dissipated by warfare against the Visigoths, who are acting as Roman allies, and merge under Asding control. They control the former Roman provinces of Lusitania and Baetica (the latter of which includes the city of Gades). The Alani are also defeated alongside their comrades-in-arms and, with both of these powerful groups now weakened, the Asding Vandali are able to extend the territory under their control as far as the southern province of Hispania Baetica, with a capital at Hispalis (modern Seville), and the south-western province of Lusitania, with a capital at Emerita Augusta (now Mérida in Spain, although most of Lusitania now falls within Portugal's borders).
  
  426
  The Alani have been greatly weakened by fighting the allies of Rome (in the form of the Visigoths), and now merge with the Vandali. The Vandali host now contains not only the Asding Vandali, but also remnants of the Siling Vandali and the Alani. They drift towards southern Spain in an attempt to put some distance between them and the Visigoths. Only the Suevi remain in the north-west.
  
  === THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
  THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.49;
  
  === König, siedelt in Rhein-Burgund ===
  König, siedelt in Rhein-Burgund

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1. Title: Life history from geni.com
   Author: Geni.com
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Hermerich-King-of-the-Suevi/6000000000701133488;
   Page: Matches birth and death dates previously added
   
2. Title: Tacitus -Kings of the Suevi
   Publication: Name: http://www.tacitus.nu/historical-atlas/regents/iberian/suevi.htm;
   Note: Kings of the Suevi 409-438 Hermerico 428-448 Requila 448-456 Requiario 456-457 Frantán 456-457 Aguiulfo 457-459 Maldras 459-463 Requimundo 459-463 Frumario 459-469 Remismundo 469-520 Period unknown 520-550 Teodemundo 550-559 Karriarico 559-561 Ariamiro 561-570 Teodomiro 570-583 Miro 583-584 Eborico 584-585 Andeca 585 Amalarico
   
3. Title: Wikipedia -King Hermeric of the Suevi
   Author: Thompson, E. A.. Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. ISBN 0-299-08700-X. Kulikowski, Michael. "The Career of the 'Comes Hispaniarum' Asterius." Phoenix, Vol. 54, No. 1/2. (Spring–Summer, 2000), pp. 123–141.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeric;
   Note: Hermeric (died 441[1]) was the king of the Suevi from at least 419 and possibly as early as 406 until his abdication in 438. Nothing is known for sure about Hermeric before 419, the year in which he is first mentioned; namely, he became king of the Suebi (or Suevi) in the city of Braga (Bracara Augusta) according to bishop Hydatius (who wrote his chronicle around the year 470).[1] Although bishop Isidore of Seville, writing his Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum two centuries after the fact, claims that Hermeric was already king of the Suebi from 406,[2] Isidore based himself on primarily on Jerome, Hydatius, Prosper of Aquitaine and Orosius, none of whom mentions Hermeric prior to 419.[1] Hermeric was a pagan and an enemy of the Roman Empire throughout his life. He is given a reign of thirty-two years in most manuscripts of Isidore of Seville's Historia Suevorum, but one manuscript does list his reign as fourteen years.[3] According to Thompson (1982)'s interpretation of Isidore, Hermeric led the Suevi across the Rhine along with the Vandals and Alans in December 406. They crossed Gaul and the Pyrenees and settled in Hispania.[3] Kulikowski (2000 & 2015) argued that the Suebi probably stayed in northern Gaul throughout 407 to 409, and moved to Galicia between 409 and 411.[1] While Theodore Mommsen believed the Suevi were foederati and Ernst Stein seconded the notion by believing they had made an agreement with the Roman usurper Magnus Maximus whereby they received the western half of Iberia, there is no primary evidence for any alliance between the Suevi and Rome.[4] In 411 (according to Ludwig Schmidt) or 417 (according to Felix Dahn), Hermeric made a treaty with the Roman emperor Honorius, but in fact the only event of note in 411 was the division of Iberia sorte (by lot) between the barbarian peoples.[4] The east of the province of Gallaecia with its capital of Braga (Bracara Augusta) fell to the Suevi, while the west of the province went to the populous Hasdingi.[4] Between 416 and 418, the Visigoths under Wallia made war on Hermeric on behalf of Rome.[4] After 419 In 419, after a personal dispute between Hermeric and the Vandal king Gunderic, the Vandals attacked the Suevi and trapped Hermeric in the Nervasian (Erbasian) Mountains before the Roman general Asterius intervened and the Vandals retreated.[5] Thereafter, until the Vandals left Iberia for Africa in 429, Hermeric remained peaceful, but in 430 he began to raid Gallaecia.[5] In 431 a Gallaecian named Hydatius went to Flavius Aëtius to plead for help against the Suevi, but Aëtius delayed until 432 the sending of the comes Censorius. According to Hydatius' Chronicle of contemporary events, the Gallaecian plebs in the better-fortified strongpoints defeated Hermeric and his men, inflicting heavy casualties and taking many prisoners, which forced the Suevis to release the Gallaecian families they had taken captive (430).[6] In 435, "on episcopal intervention", possibly Hydatius', Hermeric made peace with the Gallaecians.[7] In that same year, Hermeric negotiated through the Catholic bishop Symphosius directly with the Western Roman Emperor.[7] In 437, Censorius made a second expedition accompanied by Fretimund. After seven years of illness, Hermeric was forced to retire from the kingship in 438 and pass it on to his son Rechila.[5] The story, recorded in Isidore, that Hermeric sent Rechila to Baetica to defeat Andevotus, Romanae militiae dux, is false, as there is no contemporary evidence that Hermeric retained any authority after his abdication.[8] There appears to have been no principle of elective monarchy among the Suevi and the successes of their raids may have accounted for the contentment of their people.[5] Hermeric's royal line lasted until 456.[9] In 429, there appeared briefly a Suevic military leader named Heremigarius operating in Lusitania who may have been a joint monarch with Hermeric, but there is no primary source to prove it.[9]