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    The Comes Britanniarum (Latin for "Count of the Britains") was a military post in Roman Britain with command over the mobile field army from the mid-4th...
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  • the Western Empire: comes Italiae, comes Africae, comes Tingitaniae, comes Tractus Argentoratensis, comes Britanniarum and comes Litoris Saxonici; as...
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    Dignitatum as being one of the three commands in Britain, along with the Comes Britanniarum and Count of the Saxon Shore. His responsibilities covered the area...
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    covering Britain at the time, along with the northern Dux Britanniarum and central Comes Britanniarum. Originally, the command may have covered both sides...
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  • Saxons reach Roman London and plunder the city. Theodosius, a general (Comes Britanniarum), is sent with a relief force to Britannia. He marches from Richborough...
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    honorific comes to magistri positions. The Notitia lists six comites, including comes Africae (or comes per Africam) and comes Britanniarum, responsible...
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    and Scots had attacked the province, killing the Comes litoris Saxonici Nectaridus and Dux Britanniarum Fullofaudes. At the same time, Frankish and Saxon...
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    came under the command of two generals:[citation needed] Comes Britanniarum Dux Britanniarum This section of the limes existed from the 3rd to 5th centuries...
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    Some historians believe Maximus may have founded the office of the Comes Britanniarum as well, although it was probably Stilicho who created the permanent...
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    1936, R. G. Collingwood and J. N. L. Myres treated Arthur as a Roman comes Britanniarum. They asserted that "the historicity of [Arthur] can hardly be called...
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  • or perhaps disagreements between the Comes Britanniarum, the Comes Litoris Saxonici and the Dux Britanniarum. Gratian's usurpation coincided with a...
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  • Possibly one of the army commanders in Britain (Comes Britanniarum, Comes Litoris Saxonici or Dux Britanniarum), he may have risen to power in response to...
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    unit called the Equites Taifali established by Honorius under the comes Britanniarum in Britannia. Possibly this unit may have been sent to the island...
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  • client kingdoms in Britain Iron Age tribes in Britain Dux Britanniarum Comes Britanniarum Count of the Saxon Shore RIB 1329 στρατηγος means praetor and...
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  • Saxons reach Roman London and plunder the city. Theodosius, a general (Comes Britanniarum), is sent with a relief force to Britannia. He marches from Richborough...
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    records the existence of the Primani iuniores under the command of the comes Britanniarum, therefore within the comitatus of the Magister peditum of Gaul, and...
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  • military commands (the Dux Britanniarum, the Count of the Saxon Shore (Comes Litoris Saxonici per Britannias) and the Comes Britanniarum). The word Gabrocentum...
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    were killed. In 383, the acting commander of the Provincial Army (comes britanniarum in praesenti), Magnus Maximus, was proclaimed as emperor by his troops...
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    2009. Retrieved 25 October 2013. In full: Elizabeth Secunda Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regnorumque Suorum Ceterorum Regina Consortionis Populorum Princeps Fidei...
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  • date from 1990, the oldest 10p coins from 1992 and the oldest 50p coins come from 1997. Since 1997, many special commemorative designs of 50p have been...
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    for F.D., unless he shortened BRITANNIAR, which was already short for Britanniarum (genitive plural of Britannia). Wyon had put BRIT on the approved coin...
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  • Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith in Latin: Elizabeth II, Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regnorumque Suorum Ceterorum Regina, Consortionis Populorum Princeps...
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    Revolt, declaring himself emperor in Britain and northern Gaul (Imperium Britanniarum). He did this only 13 years after the Gallic Empire of the Batavian Postumus...
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    deserters, which enabled Theodosius to regarrison abandoned forts. A new Dux Britanniarum was appointed, Dulcitius, with Civilis granted vicarius status to head...
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    Carausius declared himself head of an independent British state, an Imperium Britanniarum and issued coin of a markedly higher purity than that of Maximian and...
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    them all after the same maner, so that Albion was sayde in tyme to be Britanniarum insula maxima, that is, the greatest of those Isles that bare the name...
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    shown on the Great Seal of Victoria in Latin as Elizabeth II Dei Gratia Britanniarum Terrae Australis Regnorumque Suorum Ceterorum Regina, Consortionis Populorum...
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    moved the date to the obverse and changed the legend on the reverse to BRITANNIARUM REX FID DEF ( ... King of the Britains, defender of the faith). Later-date...
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    governor was stripped of military command which was handed over to the Dux Britanniarum by 314. The governor of a province assumed more financial duties (the...
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    between the River Humber and the River Tweed. He is seen as the last Dux Britanniarum ("leader of the Britons") and as such would have commanded the army in...
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