Tibatto

Tibatto († 437 ?) Was a Gallic Bagauden leader and separatist who fought in Aremorica in 435 against the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III. and declared independent of Ravenna . The uprising was put down in 437 by an Alan punitive expedition commissioned by the army master Aetius . Tibatto was captured and believed to be executed. Shortly before his death, Bishop Germanus von Auxerre traveled in vain to the imperial court in order to obtain mercy for the rebels. In the following years there were also Bagauden uprisings in Hispania , led by a certain Basilius .

Tibatto is mentioned by Constantius of Lyon and Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae , who calls him princeps rebellionis .

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• Constantius of Lyon : Vita Germani , 40
• Hydatius : Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum . In: Theodor Mommsen (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 9: Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (I). Berlin 1892, pp. 615–666 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version) (on Tibatto: p. 660 )

literature

• Andrew Gillett: Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-81349-5 (on Tibatto: pp. 134 f., 280)
• John Robert Martindale: Tibatto. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , p. 1119.
• Zeev Rubin : Mass movements in Late Antiquity - Appearances and realities . In: Irad Malkin, ZW Rubinsohn (Ed.): Leaders and masses in the Roman world. Studies in honor of Zvi Yavetz . Brill, Leiden u. a. 1995, ISBN 90-04-09917-4 , pp. 129–187 (on Tibatto: pp. 152 f.)
• Timo Stickler : Aëtius. Scope of design for a master in the late Western Roman Empire (= Vestigia . Vol. 54). Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48853-6 (at the same time: Würzburg, Univ., Diss., 2000; on Tibatto: p. 196 ff.)