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Marcus (usurper), the Glossary

Index Marcus (usurper)

Marcus (d. 406) was a Roman usurper who was proclaimed Emperor of Roman Britain.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 34 relations: A. H. M. Jones, Alans, Alfred Duggan, Anthony Birley, Comes Britanniarum, Constantine III (Western Roman emperor), Count of the Saxon Shore, Crossing of the Rhine, Dionotus, Dux Britanniarum, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gracianus Municeps, Gratian (usurper), Historia Regum Britanniae, Honorius (emperor), J. B. Bury, John Morris (historian), List of legendary kings of Britain, Magister militum, Olympiodorus of Thebes, Orosius, Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Prosper of Aquitaine, Radagaisus, Roman army, Roman Britain, Roman emperor, Roman Gaul, Roman usurper, Stilicho, The Little Emperors, Vandals, Western Roman Empire, Zosimus (historian).

  2. 406 deaths
  3. 5th-century Roman usurpers

A. H. M. Jones

Arnold Hugh Martin Jones FBA (9 March 1904 – 9 April 1970), known also as A. H. M. Jones or Hugo Jones, was a prominent 20th-century British historian of classical antiquity, particularly of the later Roman Empire.

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Alans

The Alans (Latin: Alani) were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today North Caucasus – while some continued on to Europe and later North-Africa.

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Alfred Duggan

Alfred Duggan (born Alfredo León Duggan; 1903–1964) was an Argentine-born English historian and archaeologist, and a well-known historical novelist in the 1950s.

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Anthony Birley

Anthony Richard Birley (8 October 1937 – 19 December 2020) was a British ancient historian, archaeologist and academic.

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Comes Britanniarum

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 century onwards.

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Constantine III (Western Roman emperor)

Constantine III (Flavius Claudius Constantinus; died shortly before 18 September 411) was a common Roman soldier who was declared emperor in Roman Britain in 407 and established himself in Gaul. Marcus (usurper) and Constantine III (Western Roman emperor) are 5th-century Roman usurpers and ancient Romans in Britain.

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Count of the Saxon Shore

The Count of the Saxon Shore for Britain (comes littoris Saxonici per Britanniam) was the head of the Saxon Shore military command of the later Roman Empire.

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Crossing of the Rhine

The crossing of the Rhine River by a mixed group of barbarians which included Vandals, Alans and Suebi is traditionally considered to have occurred on the last day of the year 406 (December 31, 406).

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Dionotus

Dionotus was a legendary king of Cornwall in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, an account of the rulers of Britain based on ancient Welsh sources and disputed by many historians.

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Dux Britanniarum

Dux Britanniarum was a military post in Roman Britain, probably created by Emperor Diocletian or Constantine I during the late third or early fourth century.

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Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus; Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy) was a Catholic cleric from Monmouth, Wales, and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.

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Gracianus Municeps

Gracianus Municeps (also known as Gratianus) was a legendary King of the Britons, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae (Latin: History of the Kings of Britain), a largely fictional account of British history.

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Gratian (usurper)

Gratian or Gratianus (died c. February 407) was a Roman usurper in Roman Britain from 406-407. Marcus (usurper) and Gratian (usurper) are 5th-century Roman usurpers and ancient Romans in Britain.

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Historia Regum Britanniae

(The History of the Kings of Britain), originally called (On the Deeds of the Britons), is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written around 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

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Honorius (emperor)

Honorius (9 September 384 – 15 August 423) was Roman emperor from 393 to 423.

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J. B. Bury

John Bagnell Bury (16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist.

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John Morris (historian)

John Robert Morris (8 June 1913 – 1 June 1977) was an English historian who specialised in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain.

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List of legendary kings of Britain

The following list of legendary kings of Britain derives predominantly from Geoffrey of Monmouth's circa 1136 work Historia Regum Britanniae ("the History of the Kings of Britain").

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Magister militum

Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers";: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the late Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine the Great.

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Olympiodorus of Thebes

Olympiodorus of Thebes (Ὀλυμπιόδωρος ὁ Θηβαῖος; born c. 380, fl. c. 412–425 AD) was a Roman historian, poet, philosopher and diplomat of the early fifth century.

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Orosius

Paulus Orosius (born 375/385 – 420 AD), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo.

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Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire

Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (abbreviated as PLRE) is a work of Roman prosopography published in a set of three volumes collectively describing many of the people attested to have lived in the Roman Empire from AD 260, the date of the beginning of Gallienus' sole rule, to 641, the date of the death of Heraclius.

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Prosper of Aquitaine

Prosper of Aquitaine (Prosper Aquitanus; – AD), also called Prosper Tiro, was a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, and the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle.

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Radagaisus

Radagaisus (died 23 August 406) was a Gothic king who led an invasion of Roman Italy in late 405 and the first half of 406. Marcus (usurper) and Radagaisus are 406 deaths.

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Roman army

The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) was the armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC) to the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD), and its medieval continuation, the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Roman emperor

The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.

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Roman Gaul

Roman Gaul refers to GaulThe territory of Gaul roughly corresponds to modern-day France, Belgium and Luxembourg, and adjacient parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

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Roman usurper

Roman usurpers were individuals or groups of individuals who obtained or tried to obtain power by force and without legitimate legal authority.

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Stilicho

Stilicho (– 22 August 408) was a military commander in the Roman army who, for a time, became the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire.

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The Little Emperors

The Little Emperors is a 1951 historical novel by the English author Alfred Duggan.

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Vandals

The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.

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Western Roman Empire

In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a separate, independent imperial court.

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Zosimus (historian)

Zosimus (Ζώσιμος; 490s–510s) was a Greek historian who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I (491–518).

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See also

406 deaths

5th-century Roman usurpers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_(usurper)