Ricimer, the Glossary
Ricimer (– 19 August 472) was a Romanized Germanic general who effectively ruled the remaining territory of the Western Roman Empire from 456 after defeating Avitus, until his death in 472, with a brief interlude in which he contested power with Anthemius.[1]
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98 relations: Aegidius, Alans, Alemanni, Anthemius, Apollonius (consul 460), Apostolo Zeno, Arianism, Arles, Avitus, Basiliscus, Battle of Agrigentum (456), Battle of Bergamo, Battle of Cape Bon (468), Battle of Corsica, Burgundians, Calends, Campania, Carlo Pallavicino, Cartagena, Spain, Carthage, Cassiodorus, Comes, Consularia Italica, Counting, Courtesy title, Dalmatia (Roman province), Deposition of Romulus Augustus, Domesticus (Roman Empire), Epiphanius of Pavia, Fasti vindobonenses, Flavius Aetius, Francesco Gasparini, Gaiseric, Gaul, George Kedrenos, Germanic peoples, Gondioc, Gundobad, Heraclius of Edessa, Heremigarius, Hermeric, Hispania, Hydatius, John of Antioch (historian), Julius Nepos, Lake Maggiore, Late Roman army, Leo I (emperor), Leonardo Vinci, Libius Severus, ... Expand index (48 more) »
- 410s births
- 472 deaths
- 5th-century Visigothic people
- 5th-century western Roman consuls
- Early Germanic warriors
- Suebian people
- Western Roman generals
Aegidius
Aegidius (died 464 or 465) was the ruler of the short-lived Kingdom of Soissons from 461 to 464/465. Ricimer and Aegidius are magistri militum.
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.
Alemanni
The Alemanni or Alamanni were a confederation of Germanic tribes.
Anthemius
Procopius Anthemius (died 11 July 472) was the Western Roman emperor from 467 to 472. Ricimer and Anthemius are 472 deaths, magistri militum, patricii and Theodosian dynasty.
Apollonius (consul 460)
Apollonius (floruit 460) was an East Roman consul in 460 AD.
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Apostolo Zeno
Apostolo Zeno (11 December 1668 in Venice – 11 November 1750 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.
Arianism
Arianism (Ἀρειανισμός) is a Christological doctrine considered heretical by all modern mainstream branches of Christianity.
Arles
Arles (Arle; Classical Arelate) is a coastal city and commune in the South of France, a subprefecture in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the former province of Provence.
Avitus
Eparchius Avitus (died 456/7) was Roman emperor of the Western Empire from July 455 to October 456. Ricimer and Avitus are 5th-century western Roman consuls and magistri militum.
Basiliscus
Basiliscus (Basilískos; died 476/477) was Eastern Roman emperor from 9 January 475 to August 476.
Battle of Agrigentum (456)
The Battle of Agrigentum was fought in 456 A.D. at Agrigentum, now Agrigento in modern-day Sicily.
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Battle of Bergamo
The Battle of Bergomum was fought between Alans and the Western Roman Empire in 464, and resulted in a Roman victory.
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Battle of Cape Bon (468)
The Battle of Cape Bon was an engagement during a joint military expedition of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires led by Basiliscus against the Vandal capital of Carthage in 468.
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Battle of Corsica
The Battle of Corsica was fought between the Vandals and the Western Roman Empire in Corsica in 456.
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Burgundians
The Burgundians were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes.
Calends
The calends or kalends (kalendae) is the first day of every month in the Roman calendar.
Campania
Campania is an administrative region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri.
Carlo Pallavicino
Carlo Pallavicino (Pallavicini; 29 January 1688) was an Italian composer.
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Cartagena, Spain
Cartagena is a Spanish city and a major naval station on the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Iberia.
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Carthage
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.
Cassiodorus
Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Christian, Roman statesman, renowned scholar of antiquity, and writer serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths.
Comes
Comes (comites), often translated as count, was a Roman title or office.
Consularia Italica
The Consularia Italica are a collection of consular fasti published in 1892 by Theodore Mommsen as part of the 'Monumenta Germaniae Historica'.
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Counting
Counting is the process of determining the number of elements of a finite set of objects; that is, determining the size of a set.
Courtesy title
A courtesy title is a title that does not have legal significance but is rather used by custom or courtesy, particularly, in the context of nobility, the titles used by children of members of the nobility (cf. substantive title).
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Dalmatia (Roman province)
Dalmatia was a Roman province.
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Deposition of Romulus Augustus
Odoacer's deposition of Romulus Augustus, occurring in 476 AD, was a coup that marked the end of the reign of the Western Roman Emperor last approved by the Western Roman Senate and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy, although Julius Nepos exercised control over Dalmatia until 480.
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Domesticus (Roman Empire)
The origins of the word domesticus can be traced to the late 3rd century of the Late Roman army.
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Epiphanius of Pavia
Epiphanius of Pavia (438–496), later venerated as Saint Epiphanius of Pavia, was Bishop of Pavia from 466 until his death in 496.
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Fasti vindobonenses
The Fasti vindobonenses are two sets of late antique consular annals ("fasti"), found in the Vindobonensis manuscript MS.
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Flavius Aetius
Flavius Aetius (also spelled Aëtius;; 390 – 454) was a Roman general and statesman of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. Ricimer and Flavius Aetius are 5th-century western Roman consuls, magistri militum and patricii.
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Francesco Gasparini
Francesco Gasparini (19 March 1661 – 22 March 1727) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in Germany and England.
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Gaiseric
Gaiseric (– 25 January 477), also known as Geiseric or Genseric (Gaisericus, Geisericus; reconstructed Vandalic: *Gaisarīx) was king of the Vandals and Alans from 428 to 477.
Gaul
Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
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George Kedrenos
George Kedrenos, Cedrenus or Cedrinos (Γεώργιος Κεδρηνός, fl. 11th century) was a Byzantine Greek historian.
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Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
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Gondioc
Gondioc (died 473), also called Gunderic and Gundowech, was a King of the Burgundians, succeeding his putative father Gunther in 436.
Gundobad
Gundobad (Flavius Gundobadus; Gondebaud, Gondovald; 452 – 516 AD) was King of the Burgundians (473–516), succeeding his father Gundioc of Burgundy. Ricimer and Gundobad are magistri militum, patricii and Regicides.
Heraclius of Edessa
Heraclius of Edessa (Hērákleios, died 474) was an Eastern Roman Empire general who took part in the failed campaign against the Vandals in 468. Ricimer and Heraclius of Edessa are magistri militum.
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Heremigarius
Heremigarius (also Hermigarius or Hermegarius) (fl. 427–428) was a Suevic military leader operating in Lusitania in the early fifth century. Ricimer and Heremigarius are early Germanic warriors and Suebian people.
Hermeric
Hermeric (died 441) was the king of the Suevi from at least 419 and possibly as early as 406 until his abdication in 438. Ricimer and Hermeric are early Germanic warriors.
Hispania
Hispania (Hispanía; Hispānia) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.
Hydatius
Hydatius, also spelled Idacius was a late Western Roman writer and clergyman.
John of Antioch (historian)
John of Antioch (Greek: Ίωάννης Άντιοχείας) was a 7th-century chronicler, who wrote in Greek.
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Julius Nepos
Julius Nepos (died 9 May 480), or simply Nepos, ruled as Roman emperor of the West from 24 June 474 to 28 August 475.
Lake Maggiore
Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore; Lagh Maggior; Lagh Magior; literally 'greater lake') or Verbano (Lacus Verbanus) is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps.
Late Roman army
In modern scholarship, the "late" period of the Roman army begins with the accession of the Emperor Diocletian in AD 284, and ends in 480 with the death of Julius Nepos, being roughly coterminous with the Dominate.
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Leo I (emperor)
Leo I (401 – 18 January 474), also known as "the Thracian" (Thrax; ο Θραξ), was Roman emperor of the East from 457 to 474.
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Leonardo Vinci
Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian composer known chiefly for his 40 or so operas; comparatively little of his work in other genres survives.
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Libius Severus
Libius Severus, sometimes enumerated as Severus III, was Western Roman emperor from November 19, 461 to his death on November 14, 465. Ricimer and Libius Severus are 5th-century western Roman consuls.
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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. Ricimer and Magister militum are magistri militum.
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Magister officiorum
The magister officiorum (Latin;; magistros tōn offikiōn) was one of the most senior administrative officials in the Later Roman Empire and the early centuries of the Byzantine Empire.
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Magnus (consul 460)
Magnus (died 475 AD) was a Roman senator of Narbonne (then Narbo). Ricimer and Magnus (consul 460) are 5th-century western Roman consuls.
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Magnus Felix Ennodius
Magnus Felix Ennodius (473 or 47417 July 521 AD) was Bishop of Pavia in 514, and a Latin rhetorician and poet.
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Majorian
Majorian (Latin: Iulius Valerius Maiorianus; died 7 August 461) was the Western Roman emperor from 457 to 461. Ricimer and Majorian are 5th-century western Roman consuls and magistri militum.
Marcellinus (magister militum)
Marcellinus (died August 468) was a Roman general and patrician who ruled over the region of Dalmatia in the Western Roman Empire and held sway with the army there from 454 until his death. Ricimer and Marcellinus (magister militum) are magistri militum and patricii.
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Marcian
Marcian (Marcianus; Μαρκιανός; 392 – 27 January 457) was Roman emperor of the East from 450 to 457. Ricimer and Marcian are Theodosian dynasty.
Marriage of state
A marriage of state is a diplomatic marriage or union between two members of different nation-states or internally, between two power blocs, usually in authoritarian societies and is a practice which dates back to ancient times, as far back as early Grecian cultures in western society, and of similar antiquity in other civilizations.
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Matteo Noris
Matteo Noris (1640, Venice – 6 October 1714, Treviso) was an Italian poet.
Michael Grant (classicist)
Michael Grant (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history.
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Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
Military dictatorship
A military dictatorship, or a military regime, is a type of dictatorship in which power is held by one or more military officers.
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Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli (10 September 1714 – 25 August 1774) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School.
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Nicola Porpora
Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
Olybrius
Anicius Olybrius (died 2 November 472) was Roman emperor from July 472 until his death later that same year; his rule as augustus in the western Roman Empire was not recognised as legitimate by the ruling augustus in the eastern Roman Empire, Leo I. Ricimer and Olybrius are 472 deaths and Theodosian dynasty.
Patrician (ancient Rome)
The patricians (from patricius) were originally a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome.
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Patricius (Caesar)
Patricius (translit; floruit 459–471) was an Eastern Roman caesar, the son of the powerful general Aspar, who for almost two decades was the effective power behind the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Paul the Deacon
Paul the Deacon (720s 13 April in 796, 797, 798, or 799 AD), also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefridus, Barnefridus, or Winfridus, and sometimes suffixed Cassinensis (i.e. "of Monte Cassino"), was a Benedictine monk, scribe, and historian of the Lombards.
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Petronius Maximus
Petronius Maximus (31 May 455) was Roman emperor of the West for two and a half months in 455. Ricimer and Petronius Maximus are patricii and Theodosian dynasty.
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Pietro Pariati
Pietro Pariati (Reggio Emilia, 27 March 1665- Vienna, 14 October 1733) was an Italian poet and librettist.
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Priscus
Priscus of Panium (Πρίσκος; 410s AD/420s AD-after 472 AD) was a 5th-century Eastern Roman diplomat and Greek historian and rhetorician (or sophist).
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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Puppet ruler
A puppet ruler is someone who holds a title that indicates they have political authority, but is loyal to or controlled by outside persons or groups.
Raetia
Raetia or Rhaetia was a province of the Roman Empire named after the Rhaetian people.
Remistus
Remistus (died September 17, 456) was a general of the Western Roman Empire and commander-in-chief of the army under Emperor Avitus. Ricimer and Remistus are 5th-century Visigothic people, magistri militum and patricii.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan
The Archdiocese of Milan (Arcidiocesi di Milano; Archidioecesis Mediolanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Italy which covers the areas of Milan, Monza, Lecco and Varese.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Piacenza–Bobbio
The Diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio (Dioecesis Placentina-Bobiensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church.
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Roman civil war of 456
The Roman Civil War of 456 was a civil war fought in the Western Roman Empire during the second half of 456 AD.
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Roman consul
A consul was the highest elected public official of the Roman Republic (to 27 BC).
Romanization (cultural)
Romanization or Latinization (Romanisation or Latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire.
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Romanus (usurper)
Romanus (died 470) was a Roman usurper in the Western Roman Empire who unsuccessfully rebelled against the Emperor Anthemius in 470 before being executed at Rome. Ricimer and Romanus (usurper) are patricii.
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Santa Maria in Trastevere
The Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere (Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere); Our Lady in Trastevere) is a titular minor basilica in the Trastevere district of Rome, and one of the oldest churches of Rome. The basic floor plan and wall structure of the church date back to the 340s, and much of the structure to 1140–43.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Sidonius Apollinaris
Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, better known as Sidonius Apollinaris (5 November, 430 – 481/490 AD), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop.
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Siege of Rome (472)
The siege of Rome was fought between supporters of the Western Roman general Ricimer and the Western Roman emperor Anthemius.
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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. Ricimer and Stilicho are magistri militum, patricii and Theodosian dynasty.
Suebi
The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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Theodoric II
Theodoric II, Teodorico in Spanish and Portuguese, (426 – early 466) was the eighth King of the Visigoths, from 453 to 466.
Theodosian dynasty
The Theodosian dynasty was a Roman imperial family that produced five Roman emperors during Late Antiquity, reigning over the Roman Empire from 379 to 457.
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Theophanes the Confessor
Theophanes the Confessor (Θεοφάνης Ὁμολογητής; c. 758/760 – 12 March 817/818) was a member of the Byzantine aristocracy who became a monk and chronicler.
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Tripolitania
Tripolitania (طرابلس), historically known as the Tripoli region, is a historic region and former province of Libya.
Valentinian III
Valentinian III (Placidus Valentinianus; 2 July 41916 March 455) was Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455. Ricimer and Valentinian III are 5th-century western Roman consuls and Theodosian dynasty.
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Vandals
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.
Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.
Wallia
Wallia, Walha or Vallia (Spanish: Walia, Portuguese Vália), (385 – 418) was king of the Visigoths from 415 to 418, earning a reputation as a great warrior and prudent ruler.
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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See also
410s births
- 410 births
- 411 births
- 412 births
- 415 births
- 418 births
- 419 births
- Bao Zhao
- Kʼan Chitam
- Merovech
- Movses Khorenatsi
- Ricimer
- Severinus of Noricum
472 deaths
5th-century Visigothic people
5th-century western Roman consuls
- Agricola (consul 421)
- Anicius Acilius Aginantius Faustus
- Anicius Auchenius Bassus (consul 431)
- Anicius Probus Faustus
- Aspar
- Astyrius
- Avitus
- Avitus Marinianus
- Bassus Herculanus
- Caecina Decius Basilius
- Caecina Decius Faustus Albinus
- Caecina Mavortius Basilius Decius
- Castinus
- Claudius Julius Ecclesius Dynamius
- Decius Marius Venantius Basilius
- Flavius Aetius
- Joannes
- Libius Severus
- Magnus (consul 460)
- Majorian
- Manlius Boethius
- Marcianus (son of Anthemius)
- Messius Phoebus Severus
- Olybrius (consul 491)
- Paulinus (consul 498)
- Petronius Probinus (consul 489)
- Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus
- Ricimer
- Rufius Achilius Sividius
- Rufius Postumius Festus
- Severinus (consul 461)
- Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius
- Valentinian III
Early Germanic warriors
- Adgandestrius
- Agilulf (Suebi)
- Ambiorix
- Ariovistus
- Baderic
- Baduarius (Scythia)
- Boduognatus
- Brinno
- Caesorix
- Cativolcus
- Chariovalda
- Claodicus
- Claudius Labeo
- Dagalaifus (magister equitum)
- Edeko
- Frideric
- Frigeridus (dux)
- Frumar
- Gaius Julius Civilis
- Godegisel
- Haddingjar
- Heardred
- Heremigarius
- Hermeric
- Hunimund
- Hygelac
- Julius Briganticus
- Maldras
- Mallovendus
- Maroboduus
- Naulobatus
- Odoacer
- Onoulphus
- Pharas the Herulian
- Postumus
- Rechila
- Ricimer
- Rodulf, Herule king
- Teutobod
- Tufa (general)
- Vibilius
Suebian people
- Droctulf
- Frumar
- Heremigarius
- Ricimer
- Waluburg
Western Roman generals
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricimer
Also known as Flavius Ricimer.
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