Sillings

The Sillings are one of the two principal branches of the people vandal, divided since the 3rd century at least into two large tribes, the Hasdings and Sillings. In Germanic, the tribe silling is installed on a territory corresponding approximation to current the Silesia, area which perhaps owes him its name. After the crossing of the the Rhine (winter 406/407), the invasion of the Gaulle (407/409) then of the Hispanie (from 409) at the sides of Hasdings, the Suèves and some clans alains, Sillings settle in 411, in the North-West of the Iberian peninsula , as a neighbor of Suèves, installed more in North (Galicia).

In 418, then led by their king Frédébal, they are severely beaten by the Visigoths, sent in the peninsula by Rome it “to clean” “Barbares”. Alains escape from little from the extermination while Suèves are them-also beaten hard and must be satisfied with Galicia; as for Sillings, they are almost exterminated and their king Frédébal is killed with the combat.

The people, reduced and without king, must join Hasdings installed in the South, in Bétique (Andalusia). Sillings and Alains decide to choose for authority the king hasding Gundéric.

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