Flavius Castinus
Flavius Castinus was a Western Roman army master and consul of the 5th century AD.
Life
Castinus is mentioned for the first time in 420/421 as comes domesticorum . After his appointment as army master in 422, he went to Spain, where he fought unsuccessfully against the vandals . Castinus was one of the opponents of Galla Placidia and hoped to succeed the co-emperor Constantius III despite heavy defeats against the Vandals . to become. Placidia was banished from Ravenna and sought refuge in Constantinople with her two children in 423. In the same year, Emperor Honorius fell ill with dropsy and died.
After Honorius died, Castinus was the first master in the west. Castinus apparently opposed the return of the Placidia and the appointment of their son Valentinian III. to the emperor. In this hopeless situation for Galla Placidia and her son, Boniface came to her aid. A food shortage due to a blockade by Boniface induced the senate aristocracy of Rome to elevate the former primicerius notariorum Johannes to emperor on November 20, 423. The second army master Gaudentius was presumably behind the rising of John. Castinus, on the other hand, is not mentioned as a driving force in connection with the rising of John, rather he allowed this usurpation and came to terms with the circumstances. This is also supported by the fact that Castinus was awarded the consulate in 424. The assumption that Theodosius II gave him the consulate is not very plausible, since the consulate of Castinus was not recognized in the Eastern Empire. It is also possible that Castinus, due to his defeat by the Vandals, was too politically weakened to intervene effectively in the events.
After the invasion of the Eastern Roman forces under Ardabur and his son Aspar , John was defeated and executed in 425. Castinus appears to have been banished from Rome.
literature
- John Robert Martindale: Flavius Castinus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 269-270.
- Guy Halsall: Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-43491-1 , p. 233 ff.
- Otto Seeck : Castinus 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 1761 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flavius Castinus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Castinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 424 and army master |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 425 |