469

Year 469 (CDLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marcianus and Zeno (or, less frequently, year 1222 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 469 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

Ostrogoth prince Theodoric, age 15, returns to Pannonia, after living as a child hostage at the court of Emperor Leo I in Constantinople (see 459).^[1]
Revolt of Euric: King Euric defeated the Romano-Breton army of Riothamus at Déols (modern Châteauroux).^[2]
Roman lord Lusidius surrenders Lisbon to the Suevi.^[3]

The Vandals invade Epirus (modern Greece). They are expelled from the Peloponnese (Greece) and in retaliation, the Vandals take 500 hostages at Zakynthos. On the way back to Carthage they^{[clarification needed]} are slaughtered.

The Vatican makes a pact with the Salian Frankish king Childeric I, agreeing to call him "the new Constantine" on condition that he accept conversion to Christianity.

↑ Wolfram, Herwig (1988). History of the Goths. Herwig Translation of: Wolfram. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. p. 88. ISBN 0-520-05259-5. OCLC 13009918.
↑ Thompson (1969), pag. 11-12, "Euric defeated Riothamus, the British ally of the Romans, about A.D. 469, before the complete rupture with the Empire which occupeert the following year"
↑ Thompson, Edward A.; Thompson, Eduard A. (2002). Romans and barbarians: the decline of the Western Empire. Wisconsin studies in classics (New ed.). Madison, Wis.: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-08700-5.
↑ Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, second edition (New York: St. Martin's, 1995), p. 298 ISBN 978-0-312-12662-9