Hoemer

Omaer (Hoamer) was the nephew of Hilderic, King of the Vandals & Alans (his sibling or a wife’s sibling). Captured, blinded and perhaps later executed (by 533) by Gelimer, Hilderic’s cousin and enemy.

References

• The Achilles of the Vandals: Gibbon, Decline and Fall Chp. XLI, footnote 3. < link > On one of the Vandal king Hilderic’s generals being styled the “Achilles of the Vandals,” Gibbon includes this critical footnote:
  • “3 For what quality of the mind or body? For speed, or beauty, or valor? – In what language did the Vandals read Homer? – Did he speak German? – The Latins had four versions, (Fabric. tom. i. l. ii. c. 8, p. 297:) yet, in spite of the praises of Seneca, (Consol. c. 26,) they appear to have been more successful in imitating than in translating the Greek poets. But the name of Achilles might be famous and popular even among the illiterate Barbarians.
• from David Hughes, with (disparaging) comments < soc.Gen.medieval > (2003) issue of 2: b. [name], father of (a) Hoamer "The Vandal Achilles" & (b) Evagus (Euagees)
• http://sites.rootsmagic.com/EDC1/individual.php?p=69198 shows as son of Huneric d 530 [sic: 533] but he seems to have been a nephew
• https://fabpedigree.com/s070/f000066.htm
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilderich When Emperor Justinian Gelimer did not recognize as a rex and opened the war against the vandals in 533 after some hesitation to have Hilderich reinstated, Gelimer had Hilderich and his nephews Hoamer and Euageis executed by his brother Ammatas in Carthage in September after the imperial general Belisar had landed [5]
  • 4.John Robert Martindale: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, p. 564
  • 5. Prokopios of Caesarea, histories 3, 17.
• Project Medlands: SPAIN: VANDALS, SUEVI & VISIGOTHS v4.0 Updated 28 February 2019 (not listed)
• Military History of Late Rome 518–565. By Ilkka Syvänne. < GoogleBooks >
• SOBRE ESTA RUÍNA EDIFICAI OS VOSSOS REINOS”: A IDENTIDADE VÂNDALA PARA AS NARRATIVAS ROMANAS DOS SÉCULOS V E VI Geraldo Rosolen Junior. (2021) < link > Page 217, chart.
  • Page 234. questão sobre as relações de Hilderico com os imperadores no Oriente, é tão importante para Gelimero e a nobreza vândala, que a primeira carta de Justiniano à Gelimero marca uma virada diplomática e um momento crucial para a ascensão das hostilidades entre vândalos e romanos. Uma vez que, a carta parece ter sido interpretada como a prova que restava para que Hilderico fosse exposto como um traidor, e que estava decido a conspirar contra Gelimero para que seus sobrinhos Hoamero e Hoageis, e não ele, o sucedessem no tron.
  • google translate: The question of Hilderic's relations with emperors in the East is so important to Gelimer and the Vandal nobility that Justinian's first letter to Gelimer marks a diplomatic turning point and a crucial moment in the rise of hostilities between Vandals and Romans. Since the letter seems to have been interpreted as the proof that remained for Hilderic to be exposed as a traitor, and that he was determined to conspire against Gelimer so that his nephews Hoamero and Hoageis, and not him, would succeed him on the throne.
  • Page 261. p.160). 496 Hoamero é citado como já estando morto, possivelmente em decorrência de complicações após ter sido cegado, já que a última menção a Hoamero faz referência a esse ato. (PROKOPIOS, 2014, p.165; p.181). Christian Laes (2018) ao fazer uma análise filológica da cegueira, ele observa que até meados do século VII uma pessoa somente era considerada cega (caecus), se ela tivesse perdido completamente a visão dos dois olhos. O autor considera ainda que a punição de cegar oponentes e rivais era uma prática comumente mencionada na historiografia romana, sendo principalmente associada a personagens cruéis, que tinham como objetivo causar um grande sofrimento e marginalização da pessoa que cegavam, sendo visto muitas vezes, como um destino pior que a morte (LAES, 2018)
  • google translate: Hoamero is mentioned as already dead, possibly due to complications after being blinded, as the last mention of Hoamero references this act. (PROKOPIOS, 2014, p.165; p.181). Christian Laes (2018), when making a philological analysis of blindness, observes that until the middle of the 7th century a person was only considered blind (caecus) if he had completely lost sight in both eyes. The author also considers that the punishment of blinding opponents and rivals was a practice commonly mentioned in Roman historiography, being mainly associated with cruel characters, whose objective was to cause great suffering and marginalization of the person they blinded, often being seen as a fate worse than death (LAES, 2018)..
  • 497 “[Gelimer] wrote to his brother Ammata in Carthage to kill Hilderic and all the others whom he was keeping under guard, whether they were related to him or not” (PROKOPIOS, 2014, p.180); “le ordenó por escrito a su hermano Amatas en Cartago que diese muerte a Ilderico y a todos los demás que tenían relación con él o por nacimiento o por cualquier otra circunstancia” (PROCOPIO DE CESAREA, 2006, p.161). Chart: (document attached)