Editing Thrasamund (section)

===Persecution of Catholics===
According to Gregory of Tours, Thrasamund engaged in persecution of Catholics in Spain in order to force them to embrace Arian Christianity. Gregory wrote of a story where a noblewoman was forcibly re-baptized against her will during which, she began to bleed into the water from menstruation while they carried it out. They subsequently killed her by beheading.{{sfn|Gregory of Tours|1974|p=107 [II.2]}} However, Gregory's jaded version of Thrasamund's stance towards Catholics is not especially reliable according to scholars John Moorhead and Andrew Cain, who avow his chronology was confused and that Gregory was instead describing events that occurred under Gunderic's reign.{{sfn|Cain|2005|pp=413–414}}

Still, Thrasamund was strongly disposed to his Arianism and to traditional Roman culture, and he tried to persuade Catholics across his kingdom to turn away from the faith's doctrine and went so far as to even bribe Catholic officials.{{sfn|Spickermann|2015|p=78}} In 515, he also participated in a written theological dispute (favoring Arianism as he did) with the leading figure of the Catholics, [[Fulgentius of Ruspe]], whom he invited—along with Arian bishops—to Carthage. Yet none of this intellectual exchange prevented him for persecuting members of the Catholic clergy; for instance, he banished Bishop [[Eugenius of Carthage]] and Fulgentius several times, including sending them to [[Sardinia]].{{sfn|Spickermann|2015|p=78}} Other African clerics were likewise sent into exile at Sardinia by Thrasamund during his reign.{{sfn|Merrills|Miles|2010|pp=137–139}}{{efn|The figure of exiled bishops reached "60 or more" in 508/509 alone.{{sfn|Merrills|Miles|2010|p=196}} }}

Eventually, Thrasamund ended many years of pressure upon the [[Catholic Church]], which had begun under his uncle [[Huneric]], a move which improved the Vandals' relations with the [[Byzantine Empire]]. [[Procopius]] states that Thrasamund became "a very special friend of the Emperor [[Anastasius I (emperor)|Anastasius]]."{{sfn|Conant|2012|p=34}}{{sfn|Prokopios|2014|p=162 [3.8.14]}}