Valentinian III

…Valentinian, who was the Roman Emperor at the time, did what he could to include Geyseric within his circle, including the betrothal of his daughter Eudocia to Geyseric's son Honoric.…

…When Emperor Valentinian III, who had ruled for some 30 years, was assassinated in 455, the Western Roman Empire was seized by a frenzy. An irrepressible power vacuum greedily sucked in one pretender after another.…

…What prompts the sack of Rome by the Vandals in 457 is a chain of events that follows on from Attila's death, which means that the reigning Western emperor, Valentinian III, doesn't think he needs his chief advisor anymore, a man called Aetius, who's another very competent generalissimo like Stilicho or Flavius and Constantius, so he kills him. Supporters o…