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The '''Hasdingi''' were the southern tribes of the [[Vandals]], an [[Germanic peoples|East Germanic tribe]]. They lived in areas of today's southern [[Poland]], [[western Ukraine]], [[Slovakia]] and [[Hungary]]. They were part of the migratory movements of the Vandals, into the [[Iberian peninsula]] and later on to [[North Africa]]. |
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Hasdings, also called Asdings or Haddings (due to the Hadding royal lineage ). View Haddingjadalr / Haddingjar. |
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Having [[Crossing of the Rhine|crossed]] the [[Rhine]] in 406 AD, the Hasdingi settled as [[foederati]] in [[Gallaecia]] (today [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], [[Asturias]] and the north of [[Portugal]]) along with the [[Suebi]].in 409 AD. |
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So-called Germanic people who must have wandered from the valleys in southern Norway ( Hallingdal / Buskerud ), via Götaland ( Vendel ), Jutland ( Vendsyssel ) and filtering The Sjælland (Zealand) and brought over the Baltic Sea in the period from 200 BC to 200 AD. They will then have settled south of the Silingi (Silesia / Schlesien) in today's Slovakia / Hungary. |
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[[Gunderic]], king of the Hasdingi, lost his kingdom to king [[Hermeric]] of the Suebi after the [[Battle of the Nervasos Mountains]] against an allied force of Suebi and [[Roman Empire|Romans]] in 419. He fled to [[Baetica]] with his army where he also became king of the [[Silingi]] Vandals and of the [[Alans]]. Gunderic was succeeded by his brother [[Genseric]] in 428 AD, who subsequently fled from Iberia to [[North Africa]] where he established a [[Vandal Kingdom|kingdom]] at [[Carthage]]. |
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Many Haddings could have served as a Roman " foederati " and even advanced to become generals and soldier-emperors, before they formed the southern fraction of the Vandal peoples . |
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Together with the Silingi, Burgundians, Suebi and Alans, they managed to cross the Rhine, new years eve 406. |
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Having ravaged their way through Gaul they crossed the Pyrenees autumn 409, and shared the Iberian peninsula with the aforementioned peoples in 411. The Hasdings / Haddings settled north of the Suebi in todays Galicia. |
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When the Alans were attacked by the Visigoths in 416-419 , they came to the aid of these and together they captured the Silings (V)andalucia , in the 420 's. |
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The Hasdings were the survivors of the two Vandal fractions, and should become the royal dynasty after their powerful leader Genseric had crossed Gibraltar ( 429 ) and conquered North Africa by the Romans in 439 (see Vandal kingdom ) . |
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The Romans first encounter with the Hasdings is said to have been by the Danube in the year 170 AD. |
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As ostrogothic Theodoric the Great, King Genseric should also " have viewed with a wet eye " to the north and his own hasdings/haddings earliest origins in a distant northern Scandza ( Scandinavia) . |
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Revision as of 13:07, 9 March 2014
The Hasdingi were the southern tribes of the Vandals, an East Germanic tribe. They lived in areas of today's southern Poland, western Ukraine, Slovakia and Hungary. They were part of the migratory movements of the Vandals, into the Iberian peninsula and later on to North Africa.
Having crossed the Rhine in 406 AD, the Hasdingi settled as foederati in Gallaecia (today Galicia, Asturias and the north of Portugal) along with the Suebi.in 409 AD.
Gunderic, king of the Hasdingi, lost his kingdom to king Hermeric of the Suebi after the Battle of the Nervasos Mountains against an allied force of Suebi and Romans in 419. He fled to Baetica with his army where he also became king of the Silingi Vandals and of the Alans. Gunderic was succeeded by his brother Genseric in 428 AD, who subsequently fled from Iberia to North Africa where he established a kingdom at Carthage.
See also
- Haddingjar, who appear to be late reflections of the Hasdingi in Norse mythology.
- Migrations period
- Silingi
- The western Alans and Vandals
- Timeline of Germanic kingdoms
References
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