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Maximinius Thrax |
(r. 235-238) Was hailed emperor at Mainz by the German troops who opposed Severus Alexander; the same troops murdered him just three years later |
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Pupienus |
(r. 238) co-emperor with Balbinus for only three months; they enjoyed senatorial backing, but the praetorians mutinied and killed both men |
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Balbinus |
(r. 238) was the Senate's choice as co-emperor with Pupienus to defend Rome against Maximinus; he was given charge of the civil administration, and Pupienus command of the army |
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Gordian III |
(r. 238) was grandson of Gordian I; the praetorians saluted him emperor after they murdered Balbinus and Pupienus and he later died of wounds incurred in Parthia |
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Philip the Arabian |
(r. 244-249) was Gordian III's praetorian prefect and succeeded him as emperor; he was killed in the civil war against Decius |
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Trajan Decius |
(r.249-251) was proclaimed emperor by his troops in opposition to Philip the Arabian, whom he defeated at Verona, Italy; he died fighting against the Goths |
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Trebonianus Gallus |
(r. 251-253) was hailed emperor by the army after Decius's death; within two year, his troops revolted and murdered him |
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Aurelian |
(r. 270-275) was a party to the assassination of Gallienus and was a key commander under Claudius Gothicus; his troops murdered him in the fifth year of his reign |
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Probus |
(r. 276-282) had to defeat a rival general to succeed Tacitus; he had several military successes in the North and East but was murdered by troops loyal to Carus |
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Diocletian |
(r. 284-305) became emperor after the murder of Numerian, but in 286 he decided to share power with Maximian, and in 293 he established the tetrarchy; was the Augustus of the East untill his retirement (only Roman Emperor to retire) |
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Maximian |
(r. 285-308) became the co-emperor with Diocletian and was the tetrarchic Augustus of the West from 293 to 305, when he was abdicated with Diocletian |
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Constantius Chlorus |
(r. 293-306) was Caesar of the West from 293 to 305 when he became Augustus of the West; he died at York where his son Constantine was hailed Augustus in his place |
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Galerius |
(r. 293-311) was Diocletian's praetorian prefect; he was named Caesar of the East and later Augustus of the East before he died of an illness |
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Constantine |
(r. 306-337) was the son of Constantius Chlorus; he was declared Augustus of the West by his troops on his father's death and he invaded Italy in 312, wresting control of Rome from Maxentius |
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Maxentius |
(r. 306-312) was Maximian's son and married Galerius's daughter; when Constantius died, the praetorian guard hailed him emperor and he died fighting against Constantine |
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Licinius |
(r. 308-324) married Constantine's half-sister Constantia and served as his co-emperor; they later became enemies, and Constantine defeated him and executed him |
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Romulus Augustulus |
(dethroned476) was an Emperor reigning over the Western Roman Empire; His reign marks the end of the western empire, the fall of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Western Europe |
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Theodosius I |
Roman Emperor from 379 to 395, he was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire. On accepting his elevation, he campaigned against Goths and other barbarians who had invaded the Empire and he failed
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