Avitus
Sign in to saveEparchius Avitus (died 456/7) was Roman emperor of the Western Empire from July 455 to October 456. He was a senator of Gallic extraction and a high-ranking officer both in the civil and military administration, as well as Bishop of Piacenza.
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Eparchius Avitus was a Roman emperor of the Western Empire who ruled for roughly fifteen months in the mid-450s, notable for his background as a Gallic senator and administrator who also served as a Christian bishop. His reign occurred during the final decades of the Western Roman Empire's existence, a period of significant political instability and decline.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 0400-00-00
- Died
- 518
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Alcimi Auiti viennensis episcopi ... libri .vi. ab Joanne Muremellio ... recogniti et emendati
- Études paleographiques et historiques sur des papyrus du VIme siècle
- [Des Avitus von Vienna] Sang vom Paradiese
- Christiana et docta divi Alchimi Aviti ... & Claudij Marij Victoris ... poëmata, aliaq non poenitenda
- Opera edita nunc primum cura Jacobi Sirmondi
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12 sectionsContents
- Origins and early career
- Rise to the throne
- Consolidation of power
- Foreign policy
- Fall
- Death
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- External links
Eparchius Avitus (died 456/7) was Roman emperor of the Western Empire from July 455 to October 456. He was a senator of Gallic extraction and a high-ranking officer both in the civil and military administration, as well as Bishop of Piacenza.
He opposed the reduction of the Western Roman Empire to Italy alone, both politically and from an administrative point of view. For this reason, as Emperor he introduced several Gallic senators in the Imperial administration; this policy, however, was opposed by the senatorial aristocracy and by the people of Rome, who had suffered from the sack of the city by the Vandals in 455.