Trocundes
Flavius Appalius Illus Trocundes († 485) was an Eastern Roman general of Isaurian origin who played an important role in the reign of Emperors Zenon and Basiliscus .
Trocundes supported, together with his brother Illus, the revolt of Basiliscus against Zeno, but then switched sides to enable Zeno to return from exile (475-476). Appointed magister militum praesentalis and patricius by Zenon in 479 as the successor to Theodoric Strabo , Trocundes was instrumental in the suppression of the usurper Marcianus and his imprisonment in Isauria. In 482 he held the consulate . When Illus rose against Zenon in 484 and proclaimed Leontius to be the counter-emperor, Trocundes also joined the uprising. In an attempt to relieve the rebels trapped in the Isaurian mountain fortress Papyrios , he was captured and killed by Johannes Scytha .
swell
- John of Antioch , fr. 211.4, 214.5.12.
- Theophanes , World Chronicle , AM 5969-76.
- Zonaras , Epitome historiarum 14, 2.12-13.
literature
- John Robert Martindale: Trocundes. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 1127-1128.
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| SURNAME | Trocundes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trocondos; Trocundes, Flavius Appalius Illus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Eastern Roman general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 485 |