has been hypothesized that Postumus himself was born in Deuso. From these relatively obscure provincial origins, Postumus would have risen through the...
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Gallic Empire (section After Postumus)
This left Postumus, who was governor of Germania Superior and Inferior, in charge at the Rhine border. An exceptional administrator, Postumus had also...
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Poenius Postumus was praefectus castrorum (camp prefect) of the Roman legion II Augusta, stationed in Britain during the rebellion of Boudica in 61 AD...
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Claudius Gothicus (redirect from Claudius II Gothicus)
delay, Postumus had established some control over the Empire. In 265, when Gallienus and his men crossed the Alps, they defeated and besieged Postumus in...
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Gallienus (section Postumus revolt)
discovered in 1992 at Augsburg indicates that Postumus had been proclaimed emperor by September 260. Postumus claimed the consulship for himself and one...
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some sources, Tetricus II also kept his senatorial rank. According to König (I. König, Die gallischen Usurpatoren von Postumus bis Tetricus, München 1981...
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Ladislaus the Posthumous (redirect from Ladislaus Postumus)
Croatian: Ladislav Posmrtni; Czech: Ladislav Pohrobek; German: Ladislaus Postumus; 22 February 1440 – 23 November 1457), was Duke of Austria and King of...
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Lucius Caesar, Agrippina the Elder (mother of Caligula), and Agrippa Postumus (a posthumous son). From June 20 BC to the spring of 18 BC, Agrippa was...
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Agrippa Postumus, a grandson of the Emperor Augustus, had a villa on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, which was buried in the eruption of 79 AD. The villa...
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under Postumus, either the legatus of Germania Superior or the commander of Legio XXII Primigenia. Laelian represented a strong danger to Postumus because...
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Aphrodite by a Postumus; Syme identifies its author as Apollonides of Nicaea, and the person responsible for the temple as Vibius Postumus, who had the...
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Aegean Islands as far as Crete and Rhodes. Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus is killed by his own troops, after not allowing them to sack the city of...
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Claudius Postumus Dardanus was a praetorian prefect of Gaul from the early fifth century AD, who was against Jovinus, considered as a usurper of imperial...
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266/267, and rose swiftly to become co-consul with Postumus in 268. It is also possible that Postumus then elevated him to the post of praetorian prefect...
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proclaimed Augustus by his troops. Postumus besieges Cologne, where Silvanus is praetorian prefect and Roman ruler of Gaul. Postumus executes Saloninus and his...
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Gallic Empire Postumus over war spoils. In 260, Saloninus' troops acclaimed him Emperor in an unsuccessful bid for political legitimacy; Postumus killed Saloninus...
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regime given what is suspected and known about his patron's relations with Postumus. If Historia Augusta’s assertions as to his military reputation are correct...
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full brother, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus, were named after their natural father only until Agrippa Postumus was adopted by Augustus as Agrippa Julius...
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recovered from the Gallic Empire and Postumus's inscription on the Augsburg Altar was erased. However, Postumus managed to evade complete defeat, which...
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and all available auxiliaries. The II Augusta, based at Exeter, was available, but its prefect, Poenius Postumus, declined to heed the call. Nonetheless...
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a military commander, in northern Italia, to prevent Postumus from crossing the Alps. Postumus was killed by his soldiers in 269 in Mogontiacum (modern-day...
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Regalianus were also proclaimed emperors. In the West, the Roman governor Postumus took advantage of Gallienus' distraction to murder the Imperial heir, Saloninus...
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grandson Postumus Agrippa (Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus). He afterwards also became known as pseudo-Agrippa. He was a former slave of Agrippa Postumus, the...
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died, the one remaining son, Agrippa Postumus, was adopted at the same time as Tiberius, but later Agrippa Postumus was sent into exile and finally killed...
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of queen Boudica, when its praefectus castrorum[broken anchor] Poenius Postumus, who was then its acting commander possibly because its legatus and tribunes...
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Emperor Postumus refused to allow them to sack the city. They murdered the emperor and in the confusion that followed, the army elected Marius as Postumus' successor...
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Lucius Antistius Burrus, ordinary consul in 181. Where the name elements "Postumus Aquilinus" in Adventus' name came from is something of a mystery: Salomies...
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Didia gens (redirect from Aulus Didius Postumus)
Arabs to burn a fleet that Antonius had built in the Red Sea. Aulus Didius Postumus, proconsul of Cyprus during the reign of Augustus. Aulus Didius Gallus...
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India to create a Kushan Empire. Comet Halley makes an appearance. Agrippa Postumus, son of Julia the Elder and grandson of Augustus (d. AD 14) Gaius Caninius...
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vicus te Velzeke II. Een muntschat uit de tijd van keizer Postumus (Zottegem, 2000). Marcel Thirion, "Le trésor de Zottegem - Velzeke II: argent jusqu’à...
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