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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Count of the Saxon Shore (redirect from Comes litoris Saxonici)
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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