Legio XII Victrix
The Legio XII Victrix ("12th Victorious Legion") was a legion of the late ancient Roman army.
The legion was probably raised by a counter-emperor of the Imperium Galliarum (260-274). According to a rather speculative theory, Victorinus is said to have set up the Legio XII Victrix to replace the defected Legio VIII Augusta . However, a list by Constantius I (293 / 305–306) is also possible.
The Legion is known only through a few brick stamps from Horburg and Koenigshoffen near Strasbourg , which were built in the 3rd / 4th centuries. Century. It was probably used as a Limitanei (border legion).
It is possible that it was dissolved as early as 274 after the reintegration of the Imperium Galliarum into the entire empire. According to another opinion, the Legion was disbanded in the early 4th century.
literature
- Emil Ritterling : Legio (XII Victrix). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XII, 2, Stuttgart 1925, Sp. 1720.
Web links
- Jonah Lendering: Legio XII Victrix . In: Livius.org (English)
- Legio XII Victrix at imperiumromanum.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingemar König : The Gallic Usurpers from Postumus to Tetricus (Vestigia, vol. 31), CH Beck, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-406-04801-3 , p. 154.
- ^ A b Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz . Volume 31, 1984, p. 431.
- ↑ a b Jonah Lendering: Legio XII Victrix . In: Livius.org (English)
- ↑ AE 1920, 2 .
- ↑ Conference report on the international colloquium "Roman legionary camps in the Rhine and Danube provinces - Nuclei of late antique and early medieval life?", P. 12. (PDF file; 353 kB)
- ↑ Legio XII Victrix at imperiumromanum.com