We are reviewing our first Queen! It’s pretty hard to follow up the reign of someone who is known as “The Great” to history. It’s much harder to do that as a woman in a male dominated warrior society during the dark ages. Witness how Amalasuntha navigates the dangerous game of thrones while raising a king in the shadow of her father Theodoric the Great.
Theodoric the Great, Kingslayer, King of Italy Ostrogoths and Romans
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one way to describe Theodoric. He coldly murders an entire allied faction without remorse but then becomes one of the most tolerant and enlightened kings in history.
Hear how a scared little boy who is held hostage in the great Court of Constantinople grows up to be a fierce warrior and a savvy political player in the deadly game of power in Europe.
Flavius Odovacar, First of His Name, Conqueror of Rome, King of Italy.
Odovacar is famously known as the man who officially destroyed the Western Roman Empire, but very few know what happens after that. Witness the power struggle that unfolds after what is perceived in history as the collapse of civilization.
Kneel before Attila the Hun, Scourge of God, Destroyer of Civilizations, King and Chieftain of the Hunnic Empire.
The Romans labeled him as The Scourge of God. The mighty warrior king who roamed the vast plains of Europe like a predator stalking his prey. He was a man of immense power and influence, feared and revered in equal measure by his enemies and his own people. His name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it, for he was the embodiment of devastation and destruction.
Gelimer, First of His Name, the Usurper, King of the Alans and Vandals
After Hilderic managed to successfully irritate all the powerful Vandal nobles around him, his cousin, Gelimer took advantage of the situation and overthrew him in the dead of night.
Unfortunately for Gelimer, Hilderic had a powerful friend named Justinian who ruled the mighty Eastern Roman Empire that didn’t appreciate his friend being dethroned. Witness a series of questionable decisions that leads to the extinction of the once feared Vandal Kingdom.
Hilderic, First of His Name, the Antagonist, King of the Alans and Vandals
Want to see what it’s like to make every decision with the sole intention of irritating everyone powerful around you? We witness the beginning of the end for the Vandal Kingdom in this devasting roast of Hilderic’s reign.
Thrasamund, First of His Name, the Peaceful Persecutor, King of the Alani and Vandals
After the unremarkable King Huneric died from worms eating him from the inside out, his nephew Gunthamund was crowned King. He did not irritate the Romans or any of the other Vandal rivals enough for them to write about his reign in detail.
After an unfortunate “hunting accident”, Gaiseric’s grandson Thrasamund succeeds him on the Visigothic throne. In addition to being partially responsible for the death of the Visigothic King Alaric II in an odd way, he takes a unique approach in his attempts to get the heretical Nicene Christians to convert to the Vandal state sponsored Arian Christianity.
Huneric, First of His Name, King of the Alans and Vandals.
It can be traumatizing enough to have your first wife’s ears and nose cut off by your father but imagine becoming a hostage to the Roman imperial court as part of a pawn in your father’s war game.
After Huneric has an on again, off again relationship with the beautiful Roman Princess Eudocia. Gaiseric “rescues” her mother and sister and Eudocia is forced to marry Huneric. Their marriage starts off rocky because of a divide in beliefs over the holy trinity.
Will Huneric rule with an iron fist like Gaiseric or will he rebel from the policies of his tyrannical father?
Gaiseric the Cruel, First of his name, Bane of Rome, the Antichrist, King of the Alans and Vandals.
Does Gaiseric deserve the infamy attached to his name? We learn why it’s not a good idea to rescind an invite to a foreign King. Hear about the peaceful destruction of the eternal city Rome. Get a masterclass on how to build and rule a kingdom with an iron fist!
How do a group of farmers rise up to be the terror of Rome? After the Fall of the Kingdom of Toulouse, we travel back in time to the origins of the Vandal Kingdom. Hear how King Gunderic set up his brother Gaiseric to be one the most infamous villains in Roman history.