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Pages in category "5th-century Roman usurpers". The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In Gratian's retirement, the emperor Constantius II confiscated all of his estates because of his suspected support of the usurper Magnentius. Nevertheless, he was still popular within the army; this popularity could have contributed to the successful careers of his sons. His death is not mentioned in literary sources.
Gratian or Gratianus (died 407) was a Roman usurper (407) in Roman Britain. Career Following the death of the usurper Marcus, Gratian was acclaimed as emperor by the army in Britain in early 407.
Constans II (died 411) was the son of Western Roman emperor Constantine III, and served as his co-emperor from 409 to 411. Constans was a monk prior to his father being acclaimed emperor by the army in Britain in early 407, an act of rebellion against the ruling emperor Honorius. He was summoned to Gaul, appointed to the position of caesar ...
Marcus was a high-ranking soldier in Roman Britain who was proclaimed emperor by the local army sometime in 406, possibly during the summer. [2] Possibly one of the army commanders in Britain ( Comes Britanniarum, Comes Litoris Saxonici or Dux Britanniarum ), [3] he may have risen to power in response to increasing raids from abroad at a time ...
Nonetheless, if correct, it would explain what Gratian was doing in the 1120s and early 1130s: teaching canon law in Bologna and working on his textbook. He did not finish the pre-Vulgate Decretum circa 1140 but rather circa 1133. Three of the pre-Vulgate manuscripts added the text and a rubric to c.28.
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gratian has received more than 694,956 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019) . Gratian is the 1,014th most popular politician (down from 693rd in 2019) , the 16th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 12th in 2019) and the 13th most ...
