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    The comes Africae was in the Late Roman Empire, the commander of the troops comitatenses and limitanei in the diocese of Africa. His direct superiors...
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    Bonifatius (redirect from Comes Bonifacius)
    Bonifatius retreated to North Africa where he acquired the command of comes africae under dubious circumstances and continued his campaigns against the...
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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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    in Jones, pp. 22–23. "CNG: Feature Auction Triton XIII. Bonifatius. Comes Africae, AD 422–431. Æ 10mm (1.11 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Struck AD 423–425"...
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    Alaric's advice and lost the grain supply in Africa to a pro-Honorian comes Africae, Heraclian. Then, sometime in 409, Attalus—accompanied by Alaric—marched...
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    The first crisis faced by Honorius was a revolt led by Gildo, the comes Africae and magister utriusque militiae per Africam, in Northern Africa, which...
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  • Jeroen W. P. (2014). The Last of the Romans: Bonifatius – Warlord and Comes Africae. London and New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-78093-847-9. Diesner, Hans-Joachim...
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    in May 430 near the city of Calama. The Roman army under command by comes Africae Bonifatius tried to stumble here the advance of the Vandals who crossed...
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    of Cibalae, had served as a senior officer in the Roman army and as comes Africae. The brothers grew up on estates purchased by Gratianus in Africa and...
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    Alaric, magister militum in Illyricum, rebelled in 395. Gildo, the Comes Africae and Magister utriusque militiae per Africam, rebelled in 397 and initiated...
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    co-emperor (Augustus) and takes control of Gaul. Heraclianus, governor (Comes Africae), revolts against Honorius and proclaims himself Augustus. He interrupts...
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    append the 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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  • Empire, comes Africae and brother-in-law of Stilicho. Bathanarius married a sister of the powerful general Stilicho. He is attested as comes Africae since...
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    Tripolitania were caused by the "negligence and corruption of Romanus, the comes Africae ... in 372 Firmus, a Moorish chieftain with whom Romanus had quarrelled...
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    Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian theologian Gildo, Moorish prince and comes Africae (governor) Murong Lin, Chinese prince of the Xianbei state Later Yan...
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    Coin of Bonifacius Comes Africae (422–431 CE), who was defeated by the Vandals. Legends: DOMINUS NOSTRIS / CARTAGINE....
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    Jeroen W. P. (2015). The Last of the Romans: Bonifatius - Warlord and Comes Africae. London: Bloomsbury. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-47429-599-4. Xiong, Victor Cunrui...
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    Comes Africae. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 89–104. Wijnendaele, Jeroen P. (2016). Last of the Romans: Bonifatius - Warlord and Comes Africae....
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    35°N 9°E / 35°N 9°E / 35; 9 The Diocese of Africa (Latin: Dioecesis Africae) was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, incorporating the provinces of...
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    Wijnendaele, Jeroen P. (2016). Last of the Romans: Bonifatius - Warlord and Comes Africae. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Wijnendaele, Jeroen P. (2017). "The...
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    officer renowned for his wrestling skills. Gratianus was promoted to comes Africae in the late 320s or early 330s, and the young Valentinian accompanied...
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  • revolt of Theodoric I 427–429:Roman civil war of 427-429, when the Comes Africae Bonifacius fought inconclusively against the Magister militum Felix...
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    (18 December 2014). The Last of the Romans: Bonifatius - Warlord and comes Africae. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78093-847-9. Syvänne, Ilkka (19 September...
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    Wijnendaele, Jeroen W. P. The Last of the Romans: Bonifatius - Warlord and Comes Africae. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. p.90 Hughes, Ian (2017). Gaiseric:...
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    satisfied with his new appointment. He refused to give up his position as comes Africae of the African dioces (provinces) with which he separated himself from...
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  • confiscated from his brother. In 386, Theodosius I appointed Gildo Comes Africae and Magister utriusque militiae per Africam, as reward for his support...
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  • Master of Cavalry, under the Emperor Honorius. In 399, he served as the Comes Africae. Augustine of Hippo claimed that he destroyed pagan temples in Carthage...
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    there, they carried out raids on Mauretania Tingitana. In 427 AD, the Comes Africae, Bonifacius, rejected an order of recall from the Emperor Valentinian...
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    His reign was not recognized in the North- African province, ruled by comes Africae Bonifatius. In 424, diplomatic tensions between the two imperial halves...
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    In the province Africa the Gildonian uprising had broken out by the Comes Africae Gildo at the instigation of Eutropius. The grain supply of Rome was...
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