Huneric was King of the Vandals (477 – 484) and the oldest
son of
Geiseric. He was married to
Eudocia,
daughter of western Roman Emperor
Valentinian
III. They had one son: Hilderic.Despite his adherence to Arian
Christianity, at the beginning of his reign Huneric allowed the
election of a new Catholic bishop of Carthage and persecuted the
Manichaeans. Then he started persecuting Catholics punishing all
Catholic Vandals. Furthermore, he tried to gain the Catholic properties
to the state, but this caused too much protest from the Byzantine
emperor
Zeno and he stepped back choosing
to exile a number of Catholics. Huneric seemed to look for a reconciliation
of the religious positions and in 484 he organised a meeting of
Catholic bishops with Arian bishops, but few week after he proclaimed
Catholics heretics. A number of Catholic bishops were banished to
Corsica, others were simply removed from their office and a few
were martyred.Huneric had not the prestige and the political intelligence
of his father, so the Vandal reign started losing territories due
to the continuouns attacks of the Moors from Southern Algeria.Huneric
was the first Vandal king who used title of "King of Vandals
and Alans".