Battle of Châlons
In the battle of Châlons in February or March 274 the troops of the Roman emperor Aurelian defeated the Gallic counter-emperor Tetricus .
After Aurelian had subjugated the special empire of Palmyra in the Orient , he marched west in 273 in order to recapture Gaul for the empire. Tetricus and his son then moved with their army from the Rhine to the south, in order to stand in the way of Aurelian, who was on the way to northern Gaul. The decisive battle took place near Châlons-en-Champagne . It remains unclear whether the two Tetrici had to surrender or whether they defected to Aurelian during the battle, an unusual incident for this warlike time. In any case, their army was defeated by Aurelian's army with heavy losses. The end of the Gallic Empire was finally sealed and Aurelian was the undisputed ruler of the entire Roman Empire.
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- Aurelius Victor , De Caesaribus 35.3
- Eutropius , Breviary ab urbe condita 9.13
- Historia Augusta , Aurelianus 32
- Panegyrici Latini VIII, 4th
literature
- Udo Hartmann : Claudius Gothicus and Aurelianus. In: Klaus-Peter Johne (Ed.): The time of the soldiers' emperors. Crisis and transformation of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD, Vol. 1. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 297–323, ISBN 978-3-05-004529-0 .
- Ingemar König : The Gallic usurpers from Postumus to Tetricus. Beck, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-406-04801-3 .
- Alaric Watson: Aurelian and the Third Century. Routledge, New York 2009, ISBN 0-415-30187-4 .