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unusual facts about magister militum



Avitus

In the late spring of 455, Avitus was recalled to service by emperor Petronius Maximus and was elevated to the rank of magister militum, probably praesentalis; Maximus sent Avitus in an embassy to the court of Theodoric II, who had succeeded to his father, at Toulouse.

Gregoria

According to Theophanes, Heraclius of Edessa sided with Leo I against his magister militum Aspar in 471.

Heraclius of Edessa

The overall plan called for a three-pronged attack led by commander in chief Basiliscus, Marcellinus, and Heraclius.

Legio I Maximiana

According to Notitia Dignitatum, the I Maximiana Thebanorum was still under Thracian command (magister militum per Thracias) at the beginning of the 5th century, while the I Maximiana was in Philae (Egypt, south of Aswan), under the dux Thebaidos.

Litorius

Litorius (died 439) was a Roman general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire serving mainly in Gaul under magister militum Flavius Aetius.


see also

Gaudentius

Flavius Gaudentius (died 432), the father of the Roman magister militum Flavius AĆ«tius