• magister militum per Orientem, replacing Philippicus. He only reached the East in spring, and assumed his new command at Monocarton in April. Priscus...
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    Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers"; pl.: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the late Roman Empire, dating from the...
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    practice for both magistri militum praesentales to be equal but in the West it had become common for one magister, (usually the magister peditum), to be superior...
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  • usurper Priscus (magister militum), Byzantine general of the late 6th/early 7th centuries Helvidius Priscus, Stoic philosopher Tarquinius Priscus, legendary...
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  • converted to Christianity. He received two letters by Theodoret. He was magister militum praesentalis in the East at least since 443 and until 451, when he...
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  • Constantinople with ambassador Eslas. In 475, Orestes was appointed magister militum and patricius by Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos. This proved to...
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    he was elevated to the rank of magister militum; this was probably the junior of the two offices of comes et magister utriusque militiae, as the senior...
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    Byzantine-Sassanid War: Unpaid Byzantine troops mutiny against Priscus (magister militum per Orientem). King Hormizd IV begins a Persian offensive, but...
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  • maybe because he opposed the powerful magister militum Ricimer, and was substituted by Arborius. He died in 465. Priscus, fragment 27. Mathisen. Paul Fouracre...
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    magister peditum, "master of the foot" or "master of the infantry". These positions were eventually amalgamated under the title of magister militum,...
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  • its leader during the mutiny at Monocarton in Easter 588, in place of Priscus. Although Germanus restored discipline and led the army to a victory against...
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    circumstances. Eastern Roman emperor Leo I appointed Majorianus and Ricimer as magister militum before Majorianus appointed himself Western emperor with support from...
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  • Aegidius (category Magistri militum)
    supporter of the Western Roman emperor Majorian, who appointed him magister militum per Gallias ("Master of the Soldiers for Gaul") in 458. After the general...
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    – Felix, the senior magister militum praesentalis, Bonifatius, the magister militum per Africam and Aetius, the magister militum per Gallias. In 427,...
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    Majorian (category Magistri militum)
    Roman Empire. His grandfather of the same name reached the rank of magister militum under Emperor Theodosius I and, as commander-in-chief of the Illyrian...
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     189. ISBN 978-0-06-270056-8. "Priscus at the court of Attila". ucalgary.ca. Haas, Christopher. "Embassy to Attila: Priscus of Panium". Villanova University...
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    He was in reality a puppet ruler raised to power by Ricimer, the magister militum of Germanic descent, and was mainly interested in religion, while the...
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  • A military tribune (from Latin tribunus militum 'tribune of the soldiers') was an officer of the Roman army who ranked below the legate and above the...
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    Theodosius II sends an embassy to Attila; Priscus of Panium, envoy for the Eastern Roman Empire. Priscus records one of the few eyewitness accounts of...
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  • Byzantine-Sassanid War: Unpaid Byzantine troops mutiny against Priscus (magister militum per Orientem). King Hormizd IV begins a Persian offensive, but...
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  • Zeno (consul 448) (category Magistri militum)
    politician of the Eastern Roman Empire, of Isaurian origin, who served as magister militum per Orientem, and became consul and patricius. Zeno was of Isaurian...
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    appointed magister militum of Gaul by Emperor Majorian, he took control of the remaining Roman troops in Gaul. According to Eastern Roman writer Priscus, Aegidius...
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    Ricimer (category Magistri militum)
    received the title of magister militum before Avitus' fall, probably as a consequence of his earlier victories against the Vandals. Priscus gives the specific...
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  • January 1, 440, to December 31, 449. Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum), returns as triumphator back to Rome, after several years' fighting...
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    general (magister militum), begins a military campaign against the Visigoths in Gaul. He blockades the Gallic ports and besieges Marseille. Priscus Attalus...
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    officers, Aetius (magister militum in Gaul), Count Boniface (governor in the Diocese of Africa), and Flavius Felix (magister militum praesentalis in Italy)...
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    Roman magister militum, Aëtius, and the Western Roman emperor, Valentinian III. After the assassination of the Western Roman magister militum, Aëtius...
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    installed: his brother Domentziolus as Magister officiorum in 603; his nephew Domentziolus as Magister militum per Orientem in 604, giving him command...
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    somewhat confused. Its original title was magister populi, "master of the infantry". His lieutenant was the magister equitum, "master of the horse". The dictator...
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    Avitus (category Magistri militum)
    living 507, a vir illustris) and Ecdicius Avitus (later patricius and magister militum under Emperor Julius Nepos) and a daughter Papianilla; she married...
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