Editing Respendial (section)

=== Vandal–Frankish war ===
Respendial is mentioned in the [[Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus|Frigeridus fragment]],{{#tag:ref|"Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus, whom we have already mentioned, in his story of the capture and destruction of Rome by the Goths, says: "Meantime when Goare had gone over to the Romans, Respendial, king of the Alamanni, turned the army of his people from the Rhine, since the Vandals were getting the worse of the war with the Franks, having lost their king Godegisil, and about 20,000 of the army, and all the Vandals would have been exterminated if the army of the Alamanni [note: Alamanni for Alani] had not come to their aid in time." It is surprising to us that when he [=Frigeridus] names the kings of the other nations he does not name the king of the Franks as well." – Gregory of Tours quoting Frigeridus (the Frigeridus fragment) in ''History of the Franks'' (Book II, Chapter 9).<ref name="Frigeridus fragment"/>|group="note"}} embedded in [[Gregory of Tours]]'s work, describing the [[Vandal–Frankish war]] that preceded the [[Crossing of the Rhine]] (the crossing was dated to 31 December 406 by [[Prosper of Aquitaine]]).<ref name="Goffart 2010">{{Cite book |last=Goffart |first=Walter |date=2010 |title=Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dM3kdRzztiIC |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |pages=95–98 |isbn=9780812200287 |accessdate=2 September 2020}}</ref> According to Frigeridus, the Roman-allied [[Franks]] were inflicting heavy casualties on the Vandals over the course of probably several battles, killing 20,000 Vandal warriors and their king [[Godigisel]]. They were on the verge of exterminating the tribe.<ref name="MacDowall">{{Cite book |last=MacDowall |first=Simon |date=2016 |title=The Vandals |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dM47DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT38 |location=Barnsley |publisher=Pen and Sword |pages=37–43 |isbn=9781473880221 |accessdate=5 September 2020}}</ref> At that point – according to MacDowall (2016) probably in the summer or autumn of 406 – another Alan king, Respendial, came to the Vandals' rescue and defeated the Franks,<ref name="MacDowall"/> "although Goar had gone over to the Romans."<ref name="Frigeridus fragment"/>