 After three years of depredation and wandering about northern and western Gaul the Germanic Buri, Suevi and Vandals, together with the Sarmatian Alans moved into Iberia in September or October 409 at the request of Gerontius a Roman usurper.Thus began the history of the end of Roman Spain which came in 472.The Suevi established a kingdom in Gallaecia in what is today modern Galicia and northern Portugal.