Agrippinus (Army Master)

Agrippinus was a Western Roman officer ( magister militum ) in the 5th century.

Agrippinus was a Gallo-Roman and probably served as a military commander in Gaul since 452. In reference to a letter from Bishop Euphronius of Autun , Hydatius von Aquae Flaviae describes him only as comes (Hydatius, see also 451), but Agrippinus very likely held the office of army master. In 457 he was removed from office by Emperor Majorian on charges of treason, but apparently subsequently pardoned. In his place, Majorian's friend Aegidius , also a Gallo-Roman and a rival of Agrippinus, was entrusted with the military command in Gaul. Aegidius was quite successful, but after the assassination of Majorian by Ricimer in 461, he fell out with the western Roman government and established his own domain in northern Gaul. Now Agrippinus was reinstated as a Gallic army master and in this function handed over the city of Narbo to the Visigoths in 461/62 , who were supposed to take action against Aegidius. Subsequently he is no longer mentioned in the sources.

literature

• Martin Heinzelmann : Gallic Prosopography 260-527. In: Francia . Vol. 10, 1982, pp. 531-718, here p. 548 .
• John Robert Martindale: Agrippinus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 37-38.
• Otto Seeck : Agrippinus 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 901.
• Karl Friedrich Stroheker : The senatorial nobility in late antique Gaul. Tübingen 1948 (reprint Darmstadt 1970), p. 143f., No. 11.