Magnus Maximus

A Spaniard, Maximus was proclaimed emperor by his troops in 383, while serving with the army in Britain. Later legend made him King of the Britons; he handed the throne over to Caradocus when he went to Gaul to pursue his imperial ambitions. Following his destruction of Gaul, Maximus went out to meet his main opponent, Gratianus, who he defeated near Paris. Gratianus, after fleeing, was killed at Lyons on August 25, 383. Soon after, he managed to force Valentinian II out of Rome after which he fled to Theodosius I, the Eastern Roman E ...

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Magnus Maximus, Magnus Maximus - Life, Magnus Maximus - Legendary accounts

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A Spanish Celt, Maximus was proclaimed emperor by his troops in 383, while serving with the army in Britain. Later legend made him King of the Britons; he handed the throne over to Caradocus when he went to Gaul to pursue his imperial ambitions. Following his destruction of Gaul, Maximus went out to meet his main opponent, Gratianus, who he defeated near Paris. Gratianus, after fleeing, was killed at Lyons on August 25, 383. Soon after, he managed to force Valentinian II out of Rome after which he fled to Theodosius I, the Eastern Rom ...

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Magnus Maximus, Magnus Maximus - Life, Magnus Maximus - Legendary accounts

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Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a "theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the catholic or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. By extension, [heresy is an] opinion or doctrine in philosophy, politics, science, art, etc., at variance with those generally accepted as authoritative." Heresy - Etymology. The word "heresy" comes from ...

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• Heresy - Etymology
• Heresy - Religious heresy
• Heresy - Christianity
• Heresy - Heresy in Judaism
• Heresy - Heresy in Islam
• Heresy - Contemporary heresy

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Saint Ambrose, (Latin: Sanctus Ambrosius; Italian: Sant'Ambrogio) (c 340–4 April 397), bishop of Milan, was one of the most eminent bishops of the 4th century. Together with Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, and Gregory I, he his counted one of the four doctors of the West of antique church history. Ambrose - Life. Ambrosians Ambrose - Worldly career. Ambrose was a citizen of Rome, born about 337–340 in Trier, Germany, into a Christia ...

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• Ambrose - Life
• Ambrose - Worldly career
• Ambrose - Bishop of Milan
• Ambrose - Ambrose and Arians
• Ambrose - Ambrose and emperors
• Ambrose - Character
• Ambrose - Theology
• Ambrose - Writings
• Ambrose - Church Music
• Ambrose - Ambrose and reading

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The Battle of the Frigidus (sometimes called the Battle of the Frigid River), which was fought between September 5-6, 394, was perhaps one of the most important battles in the late Roman period. Arbogast, a Frank who had risen to be the most important Roman military commander in the west, along with the Senate in Rome staged a revolt against the Eastern Emperor Theodosius the Great, based in Constantinople. While revolts of barbarian federati were not new in the turmoils of the fourth century, this revolt was one ...

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• Battle of the Frigidus - Forebodings
• Battle of the Frigidus - Theodosius prepares
• Battle of the Frigidus - The Battle
• Battle of the Frigidus - Aftereffects

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Wales (Welsh: Cymru; pronounced IPA: /ˈkəmɹi/, approximately "CUM-ree") is one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. Wales is located in the south-west of Great Britain and is bordered by Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, St George's Channel ...

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• Wales - Origin of Name
• Wales - History
• Wales - Politics
• Wales - Law
• Wales - Geography
• Wales - Subdivisions
• Wales - Economy
• Wales - Demographics
• Wales - Language
• Wales - Religion
• Wales - Culture
• Wales - Food
• Wales - Music
• Wales - Sport
• Wales - Media
• Wales - National symbols
• Wales - Photos of Wales
• Wales - Notable Welsh people

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Cunedda ap Edern (c.AD 386-c.460; reigned from the 440s or 450s) (Latin: Cunetacius; English: Kenneth), also known as as Cunedda Wledig ('the Imperator'), was an important early Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the royal dynasty of Gwynedd. The name 'Cunedda' derives from the Brythonic word counodagos, meaning 'good lord'. His genealogy is traced back to Padarn Beisrudd, which literally translated as Paternus of the Scarlet Robe. One traditional interpretation identifies Padarn as a ...

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Valentinian II (371 - 392) was elevated as Western Roman Emperor at the age of four in 375 AD, along with his half-brother Gratianus. Valentinian and his family lived in Milan, and the empire was nominally divided between them. Gratian took the trans- Alpine provinces, while Italy, Illyricum in part, and Africa were to be under the rule of Valentinian, or rather of his mother, Justina. Justina was an Arian, and the imperial court at Milan struggled against the Catholics of that city, led by their bishop Ambrose. The popularity ...

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• Valentinian II - Death

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This is a list of the Emperors of the late Roman Empire, called Byzantine. The title of all Emperors listed preceding Heraclius was officially Augustus, although various other titles such as Dominus were used as well. For official purposes, their names were preceded by Imperator Caesar Flavius and followed by Augustus. Following Heraclius, the title became the Greek Basileus (Gr. Βασιλευς), which had formerly meant "king" but now was used in place of Augustus. Other (and to Roman minds, lesser) kings were titled by the neologi ...

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• List of Byzantine Emperors - Constantinian dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Valentinian-Theodosian dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Leonid dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Justinian dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Heraclian dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Heraclian dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Isaurian dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Phocid dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Phrygian dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Macedonian dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Non-dynastic
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Comnenid dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Doukid dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Comnenid dynasty restored
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Angelid dynasty
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Laskarid dynasty in exile in the Empire of Nicaea
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Palaeologid Dynasty restored to Constantinople
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Ottomans
• List of Byzantine Emperors - Palaeologid Dynasty in exile

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383 - Events. January 19 - Arcadius is elevated as Roman Emperor. Roman troops in Britain proclaim Magnus Maximus Roman Emperor. He crosses over to the continent and makes Trier his capital. Gaul, the Italian provinces and Hispania proclaim loyalty to him. Battle of Feishui - Jin Dynasty defeats the Former Qin dynasty in Anhui. Shapur III becomes king of Persia. Eunomius of Cyzicus is banished to Moesia. 383 - Births. Categ ...

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• 383 - Events
• 383 - Births
• 383 - Deaths

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The Mabinogion is a collection of prose stories from medieval Welsh manuscripts. They are partly based on early medieval historical events, but may hark back to older iron age traditions. Mabinogion - Name. Its name comes from a misunderstanding made by the Mabinogion's first English translator, Lady Charlotte Guest: she found in one story the Welsh word mabynogyon and assumed it was the plural form of the Welsh mabinogi. The word mabinogi itself is something of a puzzle, ...

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• Mabinogion - Name
• Mabinogion - Date
• Mabinogion - The stories
• Mabinogion - The Four Branches of the Mabinogi
• Mabinogion - The Native Tales
• Mabinogion - The Romances
• Mabinogion - Bibliography
• Mabinogion - Translations
• Mabinogion - Welsh text and editions
• Mabinogion - Secondary sources

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The Western Roman Empire is the name given to the western half of the Roman Empire after its division by Diocletian in 286 AD. It would exist intermittently in several periods between the 3rd Century and the 5th Century, after Diocletian's Tetrarchy and the reunifications associated with Constantine the Great. Theodosius the Great was the last Roman Emperor who ruled both east and west, and he died in 395 AD. After him the Roman Empire was definitably divided and the Western Roman Empire ended with the abdication of Romulus Augustus under pressur ...

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• Western Roman Empire - Early Cultural Differences and Divisions between East and West
• Western Roman Empire - Two military Danger Zones Rebellions Uprisings and political consequences
• Western Roman Empire - Crisis of the 3rd Century
• Western Roman Empire - The Tetrarchies and the Constantine Dynasty
• Western Roman Empire - Economic stagnation in the West
• Western Roman Empire - Constantine the Great
• Western Roman Empire - Reunification Eastern focus and re-division
• Western Roman Empire - The origins of the theological Great East-West Schism
• Western Roman Empire - Permanent division
• Western Roman Empire - Economic factors
• Western Roman Empire - Fall of Rome
• Western Roman Empire - Byzantine reconquest
• Western Roman Empire - The legacy and the final conquest of Rome
• Western Roman Empire - List of western Roman emperors

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388 - Births. 388 - Deaths. July 28 - Magnus Maximus, Western Roman emperor (executed) Shapur III, king of Persia 388 - Statistics. Number of U.S. National Park units (as of September, 2005) Category: 388 ...

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• 388 - Events
• 388 - Births
• 388 - Deaths
• 388 - Statistics

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The series takes place in the 5th and 6th Centuries (despite some anachronisms and inaccuracies), and attempts to present the Arthurian legends in a historical setting while presenting the story with a reality the reader can connect with. Lawhead bases his stories on the Mabinogion, the History of the Kings of Britain and other works of Geoffrey of Monmouth, the writings of Taliesin, Gildas, and Nennius, and several other legends that he mana ...

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Pendragon Cycle, Pendragon Cycle - Overview, Pendragon Cycle - Locations, Pendragon Cycle - Characters, Pendragon Cycle - Book Descriptions, Pendragon Cycle - Taliesin, Pendragon Cycle - Merlin, Pendragon Cycle - Arthur, Pendragon Cycle - Pendragon, Pendragon Cycle - Grail, Pendragon Cycle - Avalon, Pendragon Cycle - Reading Order, Pendragon Cycle - Inconsistencies

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Heresy - Christianity. The use of the term heresy in the context of Christianity is less common today, with some notable exceptions: see for example Rudolf Bultmann and the character of debates over ordaining women and gay priests. Popular imagination relegates "heresy" to the Middle Ages, when the Church's power in Europe was at its height, but the case of the scholar and humanist Giordano Bruno was not the last execution for heresy. Heresy remained an officially punishable offense in Roman Catholi ...

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Heresy, Heresy - Etymology, Heresy - Religious heresy, Heresy - Christianity, Heresy - Heresy in Judaism, Heresy - Heresy in Islam, Heresy - Contemporary heresy

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Mabinogion - The Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The most mythological stories contained in the Mabinogion collection are collectively titled The Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The first branch tells of how Pwyll, the prince of Dyfed, exchanges places for a year with Arawn, the ruler of Annwn (the underworld), defeats Arawn's enemy Hafgan, and on his return encounters Rhiannon, a beautiful maiden whose horse cannot be caught up with. He manages to win her hand at the expense of Gwawl, ...

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Mabinogion, Mabinogion - Name, Mabinogion - Date, Mabinogion - The stories, Mabinogion - The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, Mabinogion - The Native Tales, Mabinogion - The Romances, Mabinogion - Bibliography, Mabinogion - Translations, Mabinogion - Welsh text and editions, Mabinogion - Secondary sources

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As the Roman Republic expanded, it gradually reached a point in which the central goverment in Rome could not expect to rule effectively the distant provinces. This was due to slow communications and relativly slow transportation methods. The news of a enemy invasion, a revolt, a epidemic outbreak or of a natural disaster was carried by ship or by mounted postal service (similar to the Pony Express) and therefore needed "quite some" time to reach Rome and and required a similar amount of time until a response and a reaction reached the trouble ...

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Western Roman Empire, Western Roman Empire - Early Cultural Differences and Divisions between East and West, Western Roman Empire - Two military Danger Zones Rebellions Uprisings and political consequences, Western Roman Empire - Crisis of the 3rd Century, Western Roman Empire - The Tetrarchies and the Constantine Dynasty, Western Roman Empire - Economic stagnation in the West, Western Roman Empire - Constantine the Great, Western Roman Empire - Reunification Eastern focus and re-division, Western Roman Empire - The origins of the theological Great East-West Schism, Western Roman Empire - Permanent division, Western Roman Empire - Economic factors, Western Roman Empire - Fall of Rome, Western Roman Empire - Byzantine reconquest, Western Roman Empire - The legacy and the final conquest of Rome, Western Roman Empire - List of western Roman emperors

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In the 4th century, the Christian Church in the Roman Empire was wracked with controversy over the nature of the Trinity. In 325, the Council of Nicea had condemned the teachings of the theologian Arius: that the Son, or Word, who in Christian belief was incarnated as Jesus Christ, was a created being and inferior to God the Father, and that the Father and Son were of a similar substance (homoiousion in Greek) but not identical. The Council had formulated the Nicene Creed, which declared that God the Son (or Word) and God the Father w ...

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Theodosius I, Theodosius I - Career, Theodosius I - Family, Theodosius I - Diplomatic policy with the Goths, Theodosius I - Civil wars in the Empire, Theodosius I - Theodosius the patron, Theodosius I - Nicene Christianity becomes the state religion, Theodosius I - The Theodosian women, Theodosius I - External link

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The Romans under Julius Caesar subdued the Celtic Treverans in 58 to 50 BC. When the Roman provinces in Germany were reorganised in 16 BC, Augustus decided that Trier, then called Augusta Treverorum, should become the regional capital. From 259 to 274 Trier was the capital of the break away Gallic Empire. Later for a few years (383 - 388) it was the capital of Magnus Maximus, who ruled most of the western Empire. Until around 400, Trier was the seat of the gallic prefecture. The "praefectus praetorio galliarium" governed the western roman p ...

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Trier, Trier - History, Trier - Sights, Trier - Miscellaneous, Trier - Infrastructure

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The principal and almost contemporary source for the career of Priscillian is the Gallic chronicler Sulpicius Severus, who characterized him (Chronica II.46) as noble and rich, a layman who had devoted his life to study, vain of his classical pagan education, already being looked on with misgivings (see Gregory of Tours). He was an ascetic mystic and regarded the Christian life as continual intercourse with God. His favourite idea is that which St Paul had expressed in the words "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?" and he argu ...

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Priscillian, Priscillian - Priscillian's career, Priscillian - Priscillian's contemporary following, Priscillian - Continued Priscillianism, Priscillian - Writings and rediscovery, Priscillian - Reference

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