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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldras
Maldras (or Masdras) (died February 460) was the Suevic king of Galicia from 456 until his death. After the execution of Rechiar by the victorious Visigoths, the Suevi are said to have established Maldras on the throne. During his reign the Suevic nation became fragmented.
Maldras was the son of Massilia (or Massila) and was not said to be related to the dynasty of Hermeric, which had ruled the Suevi since 406.[1] The wording of the contemporary chronicler Hydatius may be taken to signify that the Suevi population had some part in electing Maldras.[1] They certainly had a part in dividing the kingdom in 457, when part of them refused to accept him as their leader and chose instead Framta.[1] The two Suevic kings acted independently and on Framta's death within a few months his followers are found led by Rechimund, though scholars dispute whether or not the two parties rejoined.[2]
In 457, while Framta was still ruling, Maldras led his people in a large raid on Lusitania.[2] They sacked Lisbon by pretending to come in peace and, once admitted by the citizens, plundering the city.[3] Maldras is also accused of having murdered his brother. In 458 he received envoys from the Visigoths and the Vandals.
His people continued to plunder western Lusitania until Maldras was strangled, perhaps by his own men, in February 460.[2] Maldras' people turned to Frumar as their war-leader then.[2] Afterwards Remismund became king and reunited the Suevic people. He is claimed by Isidore of Seville to be a son of Maldras, but there is some doubt on this.[4]
Genealogy
https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/VANDALS,%20SUEVI,%20VISIGOTHS.htm
1. MASSILA . m ---. The name of Massila's wife or concubine is not known. Massila & his [wife] had two children:
a) MALDRA (-killed Feb 460). He succeeded in 456 as MALDRA King of the Suevi in Spain. Isidor's Historia Gothorum, Wandalorum, Sueborum records that "Maldram Massilæ filium" succeeded as King of the Suevi in Spain after the death of Requiario but that he was soon killed[89]. The Chronicon of Bishop Idatius records that Rechiario was killed in Dec 456 and that Rex Theudoricus succeeded de Gallæcia ad Lusitaniam but that the Suevi in extrema parte Gallæciæ installed Massiliæ filium Maldram as their king[90]. The Chronicon of Bishop Idatius records that Maldras was murdered in Feb 460[91].
b) son (-killed 459). The Chronicon of Bishop Idatius records that Maldras killed germanium suum fratrem in 459 and invaded Portucale castrum[92].
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Suebi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Galician_monarchs
Medlands - KINGS of the SUEVI in SPAIN 411-585 https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/VANDALS,%20SUEVI,%20VISIGOTHS.htm