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Aspar
Sign in to saveAlso known as Flavius Ardaburius Asparus, Flavius Ardabur Aspar, Asparus
thumb|Detail of a dish depicting Aspar and his elder son Ardabur (consul 447)|Ardabur ( 434).
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Place of death
- Constantinople
- Child
- Hermenericus
- Father
- Ardabur
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- strategos
- Family
- Amali dynasty
- Military branch
- Byzantine army
- Military rank
- magister militum
- Image
- Piatto di ardaburio, argento fuso, 434 d.c. (found in 1769) 03.JPG
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- date of death
- 0471-01-01
- date of birth
- 0400-01-01
- manner of death
- homicide
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- time period
- late antiquity
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thumb|Detail of a dish depicting Aspar and his elder son Ardabur (consul 447)|Ardabur ( 434).
Flavius Ardabur Aspar (Greek: Ἄσπαρ, fl. 400471) was an Eastern Roman patrician and magister militum ("master of soldiers") of Alanic-Gothic descent. As the general of a Germanic army in Roman service, Aspar exerted great influence on the Eastern Roman Emperors for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, through the reigns of Theodosius II, Marcian and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed. His death led to the ending of the Germanic domination of Eastern Roman policy.
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