Flavius Felix
Flavius Felix († May 430 in Ravenna ) was a Western Roman army master .
The sources do not report in great detail about Felix, but initially he seems to have great influence on the young emperor Valentinian III. and to have been a confidante of his mother Galla Placidia . In 425 Felix was appointed magister utriusque militiae (supreme army master) in the west. In 426 he supposedly ordered the murder of Bishop Patroclus and the deacon Titus. In 428 he became an ordinary consul , and in 429 he was given the title of Patricius . He commanded the troops in Italy and was a competitor of the army masters Bonifatius and Aëtius . Probably the latter had Felix and his wife Padusia murdered in Ravenna in May 430 : Felix was lynched by mutinous legionaries. Some time later there was a power struggle between Boniface and Aëtius, from which Aëtius ultimately emerged victorious.
Felix and his wife Padusia donated a mosaic in the apse of the Lateran basilica in Rome.
literature
- Alexander Demandt : Magister militum. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume XII, Stuttgart 1970, Sp. 553-790, here Sp. 653f.
- Peter Heather : The Fall of the Roman Empire. Macmillan, London 2005, ISBN 0-333-98914-7 , pp. 258 ff.
- Otto Seeck : Felix 12 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, Col. 2167 f.
- Jeroen Wijnendaele: The early career of Aëtius and the murder of Felix (c. 425-430 CE). In: Historia 66, 2017, pp. 468–482.
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| SURNAME | Felix, Flavius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Western Roman army master |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century or 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 430 |
| Place of death | Ravenna |