Anthemiolus

Anthemiolus († 471) was a son of the Western Roman emperor Anthemius .

Little is known about his person. In a late antique Gallic chronicle it is reported that Anthemiolus, as military commander ( dux ) on behalf of his father, led a Western Roman army to southern Gaul against the Visigoths in the year 471 to relieve the threatened city of Arelate . The Roman army was intercepted and destroyed by the Gothic king Eurich , and Anthemiolus also fell. It would be the last time that a major Western Roman army would operate in Gaul . The loss of these troops also weakened Anthemius, against whom his own army master Ricimer took action shortly afterwards and had him executed in 472.

literature

Friedrich Anders: Flavius Ricimer. Power and impotence of the Western Roman army master in the second half of the 5th century. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-61264-4 , p. 223.
John Robert Martindale: Anthemiolus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , p. 93.

Remarks

↑ Another son of the emperor was Marcianus .
↑ Theodor Mommsen (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 9: Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (I). Berlin 1892, p. 664 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
^ Friedrich Anders: Flavius Ricimer. Power and impotence of the Western Roman army master in the second half of the 5th century. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2010, p. 224ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Anthemiolus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Son of the Western Roman Emperor Anthemius
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century
DATE OF DEATH	471

[1] Another son of the emperor was Marcianus .

[2] Theodor Mommsen (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 9: Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (I). Berlin 1892, p. 664 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )

[3] Friedrich Anders: Flavius Ricimer. Power and impotence of the Western Roman army master in the second half of the 5th century. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2010, p. 224ff.