HUNNERIC (d. 484)

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HUNNERIC (d. 484) , king of the Vandals, was a-son of King Gaiseric, and was sent to

Italy

ITALY
ITALY (Italia)

as a

hostage

HOSTAGE (through Fr. ostage,
modern
- MODERN
otage, from
Late
- LATE
Lat. obsidaticum, the state of being an obses or hostage; Med. Lat. ostaticum, ostagium)

in 435 when his father made a treaty with the emperor Valentinian III. After his return to the Vandal

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

at Carthage, he married a daughter of Theodoric I., king of the Visigoths; but when this princess was suspected of attempting to poison her father-in-law, she was mutilated and was sent back to Europe. Hunneric became king of the Vandals on his father's death in 477. Like Gaiseric he was an Arian, and his reign is chiefly memorable for his cruel persecution of members of the orthodox Christian

Church

CHURCH
CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other
languages
- LANGUAGES
under various forms—Scottish
kirk
- KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
CHURCH,
RICHARD
WILLIAM (1815–189o)
CHURCH, SIR
RICHARD
(1784–1873)

in his dominions. Hunneric's second wife was Eudocia, a daughter of Valentinian III. and his wife Eudocia. (See VANDALS.)

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