Mundus (general)
Mundus († 536 ) was an East Roman general under Emperor Justinian I .
Little is known about his early life other than that he fought as a soldier of fortune and mercenary in the Hunnic service and was apparently a Gepid . In 529, Mundus (Mundo) was appointed magister militum for the Eastern Roman troops in Illyricum and on the Danube border by the Emperor Justinian . In this capacity he managed to repel an incursion by the Slavs and Hunno-Bulgarians . In 531 he supported the general Belisarius in the fighting in the east against the Sassanids , where he took part in the Battle of Callinicum (see also Roman-Persian Wars ). Mundus was appointed magister militum per Orientem as successor to Belisarius after the battle . In 532 he was recalled to Constantinople , where he witnessed the Nika uprising . Mundus was loyal to the emperor and helped to stifle the unrest by force and to put down the supporters of the opposing emperor Flavius Hypatius in the hippodrome.
At the beginning of the Gothic War in 535 he led the troops on the Illyrian front and conquered the city of Salona , but the next year he was killed in the fighting.
The most important source for the life of the Mundus is Prokopios of Caesarea .
literature
- Brian Croke: Mundo the Gepid: from Freebooter to Roman General. In: Chiron . Vol. 12, 1982, pp. 125-135.
- Arnold HM Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . Vol. 3: John Robert Martindale: AD 527-641. B: Kâlâdji - zuudius. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1992, pp. 903-905.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mundus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Eastern Roman general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century or 6th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 536 |