The Goth Theodoric the Great , king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths , was allied by marriage with the Vandals , as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I.
The Goth leader Theodoric the Great , king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths , was allied by marriage with the Vandals as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I. Like the Goths , the Vandals , whose influence can best be judged in their longest-lasting kingdom in North Africa , were continuators rather than violaters of Roman culture in Late Antiquity .