This is episode 12 called The Apogee of the Kingdom of the Suebi and in this episode you will learn:
SHOW NOTES
- The situation of Hispania and Italy after the Vandals had left Hispania for North Africa
- How weak the foundations of the Kingdom of the Suebi under King Hermeric were
- The peak of the bagaudae groups in Gaul and Hispania and the expansion of the Vandal Kingdom
- The ambitious Suebic campaign of King Rechila to conquer Lusitania and Baetica
- How the Suebic control actually worked in those provinces
- The progressive emotional disconnection between the Hispano-Romans and the Western Roman Empire as Valentinian's III expeditions failed
- The firsts of King Rechiar: first Catholic Germanic king and the issue of coins
- Why the Visigoths and the Suebi briefly sealed an alliance
- How the threat of the Huns ended their alliance
- How King Rechiar took advantage of the weakness of the Empire to invade Hispania Carthaginensis and Tarraconensis
- How the Visigoths decisively crushed the Suebi in 456 and caused the disintegration of the kingdom