Editing Godigisel (section)

{{Short description|King of the Vandals}}
'''Godigisel''' ({{circa}} 359– {{circa}} 406) was King of the [[Hasdingi]] [[Vandals]] until his death in 406.<ref name="WaldmanMason2006">{{cite book|author1=Carl Waldman|author2=Catherine Mason|title=Encyclopedia of European Peoples|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfv6HKXErqAC&pg=PA823|year=2006|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-2918-1|page=823}}</ref> It is unclear when or how he became king; however, in 405 he formed and led a coalition of Germanic peoples, including the Hasdingi Vandals, Silingi Vandals, Suebi, and others from Pannonia with the intention of invading Roman Gaul.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} Before crossing the Rhine River into Gaul, he was killed in the [[Vandal–Frankish war]], possibly in late 406.<ref name="WaldmanMason2006"/> Shortly after his death (traditionally dated to 31 December 406), this group of Vandals and their allies [[Crossing of the Rhine|crossed the Rhine]], possibly while it was frozen, into the territory of the [[Roman Empire]].<ref name="WaldmanMason2006"/>

Godigisel was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, [[Gunderic]].<ref name="WaldmanMason2006"/> Godigisel was also the father of [[Genseric]], who succeeded Gunderic.