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Magnus Maximus
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late 4th-century Roman emperor of Britain and usurper of the West
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Flavius Magnus Maximus was a male politician and Roman consul who served as Roman emperor during the Low Roman Empire and late antiquity. Born in Hispania in 335, he was a member of the Theodosian dynasty and held citizenship in Ancient Rome. His spouse was Elen, and his children included Flavius Victor and Owain fab Macsen Wledig.
Maximus died in Aquileia on either August 27 or August 28, 388, by capital punishment. He is mentioned in the work *The History of the Kings of Britain* and described in the source Pauly–Wissowa.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
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- AzÓn Visconti
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 8
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- The standardisation of terminology of lower urinary tract function: Report from the standardisation sub‐committee of the International Continence Society
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- Dapagliflozin in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
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- Gastric cancer
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Key facts
- Reign
- Early Spring 383 – August 388
- Predecessor
- Gratian
- Successor
- Valentinian II
- Co emperors
- Theodosius I (East) Valentinian II Victor
- Born
- Gallaecia , Hispania
- Died
- August 388, Aquileia , Venetia et Histria , Italia
- Spouse
- Elen (traditional)
- Issue detail
- Victor " Sevira " "Maxima"
- Dynasty
- Theodosian (disputed)
- Religion
- Nicene Christianity
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Encyclopedic overview
Magnus Maximus ( Classical Latin: [ˈmaːgnus ˈmaːksimus]; died 28 August 388) was Roman emperor in the West from 383 to 388. He usurped the throne from emperor Gratian.
Born in Gallaecia, he served as an officer in Britain under Theodosius the Elder during the Great Conspiracy. In 383, he was proclaimed emperor in Britannia, and in Gaul the next year, while Gratian's brother Valentinian II retained Italy, Pannonia, Hispania, and Africa. In 387, Maximus's ambitions led him to invade Italy, resulting in his defeat by Theodosius I at the Battle of Poetovio in 388. In the view of some historians, his death marked the end of direct imperial presence in Northern Gaul and Britannia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Magnus Maximus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.