In 269, Postumus was murdered by his own troops, and the Gallic Empire, which depended on the force of his personality, began to crumble. Victorinus, who assumed control of the breakaway empire late in 269, was killed by one of his officers, whose wife he d seduced. The slain emperor s mother, Victoria, served as de facto empress after her son was killed, paying vast sums of money to install a well-bred general, Tetricus I, as Augustus. His son Tetricus II served as Caesar. But fickle generals abandoned Tetricus and his son, and they surrendered in 274. After being paraded through Rome as trophies, they were spared death by the Emperor Aurelian in exchange for their obeisance.
In 269, Postumus was murdered by his own troops, and the Gallic Empire, which depended on the force of his personality, began to crumble. Victorinus, who assumed control of the breakaway empire late...
The son of the Eastern Roman Emperor Licinius I and Constantia, the half-sister of Western Emperor Constantine the Great, Licinius the Younger served as Caesar to his father s Augustus. As the nephew...
Constantius II, Fausta s middle son, was the most ruthlessly efficient of the sons of Constantine. He was elevated to Caesar at age seven, and in 333 was given the city of Antioch.
In the year 268, Caesar Marcus Aurelius Claudius Augustus, known as Claudius II Gothicus, assumed the Roman throne. Desperate for fresh army recruits, he decreed that young men remain unmarried,...
In the spring of A.D. 260, the Roman Emperor Valerian was taken prisoner by the Persian King of Kings. This humiliating capture, unprecedented in the long annals of Rome, ended Valerian s reign,...
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