Iovinus (army master)

The sarcophagus of Jovinus in the Musée Saint-Remi in Reims

Flavius ​​Iovinus (attested from 361 to 369) was a Roman army master .

Iovinus first encountered Iovinus in the sources (more precisely the historical work of Ammianus Marcellinus ) in 361 when, as Magister equitum (master of the cavalry) in the army of Julians, he was to besiege Aquileia , which was in favor of the recently deceased Emperor Constantius II . Soon, however, he was recalled and made a Magister equitum for Illyria . In this function he was - together with his military colleagues Arbitio and Nevitta as well as the Praetorian prefects Mamertinus and Salutius - one of the judges in the trials in Chalcedon in which close followers of Constantius such as Paulus Catena and the chamberlain Eusebius were convicted.

In 363 he served as a master in Gaul . When Julian died in a Persian campaign in 363 , Iovinus was initially removed from his successor Jovian , but was reinstated shortly afterwards. He also held this office under Valentinian I and Valens . In 366 he defeated the Alamanni on the upper Moselle , and in the following year he was consul . In 369 he was sent to Britain to put down a rebellion. Shortly afterwards he was replaced as Magister militum per Galliam by Flavius ​​Theodosius .

Iovinus was a Christian and built the church of St. Agricola in Reims , whose dedicatory inscription has been preserved.

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• Ammianus Marcellinus 21,8,3; 22.3.1; 25,8,11; 26,5,1-3; 27.2.
• CIL XIII, 3256

literature

• Otto Seeck : Iovinus 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 2, Stuttgart 1916, Sp. 2011 f.
• Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Iovinus 6. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , pp. 462-463.
• Kirsten Groß-Albenhausen: Iovinus 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01475-4 , Sp. 1094.