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Procopius and magister
His father was Procopius, magister militum per Orientem from 422 to 424, who was descended from the Procopius who had been a nephew of Emperor Constantine I and a usurper against the Eastern Emperor Valens ( 365 – 366 ).
* Marzbān or Kanārang: Equivalent to Margrave or commander of the border guards ; according to Procopius, it had been equivalent in rank to the East Roman strategos or magister militum.

Procopius and father
The date of his birth is unclear ; John Malalas claims that at his death he was 82 years old, hence born in 449, but Procopius mentions that he had barely entered puberty when his father Peroz was killed with his entire army during a campaign against the Hephthalites in 484 at the Battle of Herat.
Procopius might be the Anthemius, husband of Herais and father of a Zeno betrothed to a nephew of Emperor Zeno ; this Anthemius was probably a patricius.

Procopius and Emperor
Another contemporary chronicler, Procopius, compares Justinian's appearance to that of tyrannical Emperor Domitian, although this is probably slander.
While the crowd was rioting in the streets, Justinian considered fleeing the capital, but he remained in the city on the stirring words of Theodora ( according to Procopius, she said " For an Emperor to become a fugitive is not a thing to be endured ... I hold with the old saying that the purple makes an excellent shroud ".
* April – May – Emperor Valens defeats the troops of Procopius in the Battle of Thyatira, bringing an end to his revolt ; Serenianus and Marcellus are killed.
Procopius states that he was " a very special friend of the Emperor Anastasius.
Once again, Gaiseric was his major supporter, but once again his hopes were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor Leo I the Thracian chose the noble Procopius Anthemius.
Procopius Anthemius ( c. 420 – 11 July 472 ) was Western Roman Emperor from 467 to 472.
On his mother's side, Procopius was related, a maternal cousin, to Emperor Julian, since their maternal grandfather was Julius Julianus.
His first wife was probably Artemisia, having married secondly the dowager Empress Faustina, while the Roman general of the 5th century Procopius and his son, the Emperor Anthemius, were among his descendants, the first being the son of his son Procopius.
Evagrius is much less critical of the Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora, in comparison with Procopius, who described the two as physically manifest demons.
Around 555, according to Procopius, Emperor Justinian ( 527-565 ) renovated the fortifications of Nikopolis, as part of his huge program involving the renewal of city fortifications and the erection of new defences.
Procopius reports that Kaleb ( whom he calls Hellesthaeus ) with the help of Justin, the Roman Emperor, collected a fleet and crossed from Africa to Yemen, where he defeated Dhū Nuwas about the year 520 or 525 ( 1. 20 ).
The service was still fully functioning in the first half of the sixth century in the Byzantine Empire, when the historian Procopius charges Emperor Justinian with the dismantlement of most of its sections, with the exception of the route leading to the Persian border.
Notwithstanding its enormous costs, in the Eastern Roman Empire the service was still fully functioning in the first half of the sixth century, when the historian Procopius charges Emperor Justinian with the dismantlement of most of its sections, with the exception of the route leading to the Persian border ( Secret History 30. 1 – 11 ).
Flavius Procopius Anthemius ( floruit 469-515 ) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire, son of Western Roman Emperor Anthemius.
Later Procopius returned to Constantinople, under Emperor Anastasius I ( 491-518 ).
* Procopius ( usurper ) ( c. 325-366 ), nephew of Emperor Constantine I, a Roman general and usurper emperor
* Procopius Anthemius ( c. 420-472 ), a Western Roman Emperor ;

Procopius and Anthemius
Caesar Procopius Anthemius P. F.
Aug ."; b. Procopius Anthemius ), 467 – 472
Procopius was the son of Anthemius and of Marcia Euphemia, daughter of the Easter Roman Empire.
* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, " Procopius Anthemius 9 ", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, p. 99.
* Anthemiolus, son of Procopius Anthemius, Roman general ;
* Marcian, son of Procopius Anthemius, usurper ;
* Procopius Anthemius, son of Procopius Anthemius, Consul ;
* Romulus, son of Procopius Anthemius ;
* Alypia, daughter of Procopius Anthemius, wife of Ricimer.
However Cassiodorus, Marcellinus Comes and Procopius report that Anthemius was killed by Ricimer himself.

magister and militum
* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
As a response, the Eastern emperor Flavius Arcadius appointed Alaric magister militum (“ master of the soldiers ”) in Illyricum.
Honorius was still a minor ; as his guardian, Theodosius had appointed the magister militum Stilicho.
Here his rampage continued until the eastern government appointed him magister militum per Illyricum, giving him the Roman command he had desired, as well as the authority to resupply his men from the imperial arsenals.
Thus in 565 or 566 Justinian's successor Justin II sent his son-in-law Baduarius as magister militum ( field commander ) to lead a Byzantine army against Alboin in support of Cunimund, ending in the Lombards ' complete defeat.
He entered the army at an early age, when Constantius II was emperor of the East, and was sent to serve under Ursicinus, governor of Nisibis in Mesopotamia, and magister militum.
As emperors, Honorius was under the control of the Romanized Vandal magister militum Flavius Stilicho while Arcadius was dominated by one of his ministers, Rufinus.
On 11 August 355, the magister militum Claudius Silvanus revolted in Gaul.
Constantius had made him magister militum in 353, with the purpose of blocking the German threats, a feat that Silvanus achieved by bribing the German tribes with the money he had collected.
Stilicho was absent in Raetia in the latter months of 401, when Alaric, who was also the eastern empire's magister militum in Illyricum, suddenly marched with a large army to the Julian Alps and entered Italy.
Stilicho was the magister militum of the Western Roman Empire.
He was the only known person to hold the rank of " magister militum in praesenti " from 394 to 408 in both the Western and the Eastern Roman Empire.
Jordanes was notarius, or secretary to Gunthigis Baza, a magister militum, nephew of Candac, of the leading Ostrogoth clan of the Amali.
He set up the Chalcedon tribunal to deal with the corruption of the previous administration under the supervision of magister militum Arbitio.
The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
By the time the Antipope Christopher ( 903 – 904 ) seized the chair of Saint Peter by force, circumstances had changed at Rome, with the rise of the magister militum Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, who had been stationed at Rome by the retreating emperor Louis the Blind in 902.
He was installed as emperor by his father Orestes, the magister militum ( master of soldiers ) of the Roman army after deposing the previous emperor Julius Nepos.
* 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
* 456 – Remistus, Roman general ( magister militum ), is besieged with a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city.
The fourfold regional division of the empire continued in the form of Praetorian prefectures, each of which was overseen by a praetorian prefect and subdivided into administrative dioceses, and often reappeared in the title of the military supra-provincial command assigned to a magister militum.
It was claimed to be a suicide by the magister militum, Arbogast.
Treated with favor by the Emperors Leo I and Zeno ( ruled 474 – 475 and 476 – 491 ), he became magister militum ( Master of Soldiers ) in 483, and one year later he became consul.
According to John Julius Norwich, the traditional first doge of Venice, Paolo Lucio Anafesto, was actually Exarch Paul, and his successor, Marcello Tegalliano, Paul's magister militum ( General ; literally, " Master of Soldiers.
* Stilicho, Roman general ( magister militum ), orders the Sibylline Books to be burned, according to the Roman poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus.
* Sebastianus, son-in-law of Bonifacius, becomes supreme commander ( magister militum ) of the Western Roman army.

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