Fredebal

Fredebal, also spelled as Fredbal or Fredbalus, was a king of the Vandals during the 5th century.

King of the Siling Vandals, he was taken prisoner without any conflict in Baetica (416) by a trick of Wallia, king of the Visigoths, in the Gothic war in Spain. Fredebal was sent to Roman Emperor Honorius in Ravenna.[1][2]

  1. ^ A. D. 395-527, Parts 395-527: Volume 2 of The prosopography of the later Roman Empire, J. R. Martindale (1980)
  2. ^ Barbarian tides: the migration age and the later Roman Empire, Walter A. Goffart (2006)