144 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



monarchies and flates which now exift, it is more 

 eligible to make the account of them precedd 

 the hiftories of modern nations, in order to pre- 

 Vent any interruption in the feries of thofe hifto- 

 ries, and all embarrafiment in the ftudy of them. 

 The next chapter, therefore, will contain all 

 that relates to this matter in the middle age. 



XXI. But as the kings of the Vandals in 

 Africa had, in the fifth and fixth centuries, 

 much concern in the affairs of Italy, and as their 

 empire difappeared before the end of the middle 

 age, fo that we (hall have no further occafion to 

 mention them, it appears necefTary to give the 

 chronology of the kings of that nation in this 

 place. The kingdom of the Vandals in Africa 

 lafted 1 08 years, under fix kings, who were, 



Y. M. D. 



1. Genferic, king of the Vandals, who founded 



that kingdom in the year 427, and reigned - 48 o o 



2. Huneric, fon-in-law of Valcntinian III. iuc- 



ceeded his father, and reigned - 8 o o 



3. Gondebaut, the grandfon of Huneric, reigned n o o % 



4. Trafimond fucceeded her brother, and reigned 26 o o 



5. Hilderic reigned _ - 8 o o 



6. Gilimer was put in the place of Hilderic, who 



had been unjuftly deprived of the throne. Pie 



reigned -900 



And was vanquifhed by Belifarius, in the year 



534. And thus ended the kingdom of the 



Vandals. 



Here we fhall conclude our fketch of the hif- 

 tory of the middle age : very happily, if we have 



