However, given that Arbogast was a barbarian by birth, he was unable to claim control over those territories under his own name and had to do so in the name of Valentinian II instead.

The brutal fighting lasted the entire day with Theodosius I unable to break the lines of Arbogast ’ s forces while taking heavy losses to his barbarian troops in the process.

* 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.

In 394 Alaric led a Gothic force of 20, 000 that helped the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius defeat the Frankish usurper Arbogast at the Battle of Frigidus.

* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast.

* 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.

* May 15 – Emperor Valentinian II, age 21, is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast.

* 392, Emperor Valentinian II is hanged, Frankish General Arbogast names Eugenius to be Western Emperor.

* 394, 20, 000 Gothic mercenaries support Eastern Emperor Theodosius the Great in the Battle of the Frigidus, Suicide of Frankish General Arbogast, Execution of puppet Western Emperor Eugenius.

Arbogast, Valentinian II ’ s general-in-chief, murdered him in May 392, and replaced him with a puppet Emperor, Eugenius, a former rhetorician.

He abolished paganism entirely and made Christianity the official religion of the Empire in 391, overthrew Arbogast and his puppet Emperor, Eugenius, in the West in 394, and was the last Emperor to rule both East and West.

When the Eastern Emperor Theodosius heard the news of Valentinian's death, Arbogast, who was the magister militum and de facto ruler of Western Empire, informed him that the young emperor had committed suicide.

However, four years later in 387 CE Maximus invaded Italy seeking political control over the entire empire, which prompted the Eastern Emperor Theodosius I to gather his available armies, including the Goths, Huns, and Alans, along with his trusted commanders Arbogast and Richomeres to quash the rising authority of Maximus.

At the time however, Valentinian II was too young to rule the Western Empire from Italy on his own, so Theodosius I stayed in Italy to conduct civil and political affairs from the beginning of Valentinian II's reign in 388 CE until 391 CE when he left for Constantinople, at which time Arbogast was promoted to magister militum and left to keep an eye on the young Emperor after they were moved to Vienne.

The controversy involving Arbogast began during the regency of Valentinian II, who soon after his recognition as Emperor by Theodosius I became a figure-head for the wills and ambitions of Arbogast.

Furthermore, during this period Arbogast had become increasingly violent towards Valentinian II and his councilors, so much so, in fact, that Arbogast is described as killing the councilor Harmonius, a friend of the Emperor who had been accused of taking bribes, at the feet of Valentinian II in 391 CE.

Soon after this encounter, Arbogast and Valentinian II met again in the palace of the Emperor and began a discussion which soon escalated into a confrontation between the two, ultimately resulting in Valentinian's attempt to stab Arbogast with a sword belonging to the man-at-arms beside him, which was prevented by the latter.

Shortly after these events, Emperor Theodosius I, perhaps realizing the situation between East and West was becoming problematic at the least, began to prepare his foederati, including Germanic troops, those from the Visigothic treaty in 382 CE led by Alaric, as well as a contingency of Alans and Huns, for war against Arbogast and Eugenius in 394.

St. Arbogast came from Ireland to Alsace and took the name of Arbogast because his Irish name was too difficult for the locals to pronounce.

This grew into a strong business for Arbogast & Bastian, as previously these goods had to be imported from larger cities, such as New York City and Philadelphia, and suffered in freshness and quality because of the additional time and handling required to get the finished product to Allentown.

The bankruptcy was immediately triggered because one of the company's customers had issued a stop-payment on $ 800, 000 worth of checks paid to Arbogast & Bastian.

* August 22 – Arbogast nominates Eugenius, Roman teacher of rhetoric, as the next emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

After three months, during which he had no communication from Theodosius, Arbogast selected an imperial official, Eugenius, as emperor.

Civil war ensued and, in 394, Theodosius defeated Eugenius and Arbogast.

* 385 / 8-394: Arbogast, magister militum under Valentinian II and Eugenius

A former teacher of grammar and rhetoric, as well as magister scrinorum, Eugenius was an acquaintance of the Frank magister militum and of the de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire, Arbogast.

Following the death of Valentinian II, Arbogast, who had probably been the cause of Valentinian II's murder or suicide, elevated Eugenius to the purple ( 22 August 392 ).

The choice of Eugenius, over proclaiming himself, offered to Arbogast two strong advantages: first, Eugenius, a Roman, was more suitable than Arbogast, a Frank, as an emperor ; furthermore, the Roman Senate would have been more likely to have supported Eugenius than Arbogast.

Theodosius then moved from Constantinople with his army, and met Eugenius and Arbogast in the Battle of the Frigidus ( on the modern Italy-Slovenia border ) on 6 September 394.

Arbogast immediately committed suicide after the defeat, while Eugenius was held for execution as a criminal, his head afterward being displayed in Theodosius ' camp.

Arbogast installs the puppet Eugenius on the Western throne, but Theodosius refuses to recognize the usurper.

* 394 – Eugenius and Arbogast are deposed and killed by Theodosius, who briefly reunites the empire for the last time.

Arbogast and Theodosius failed to come to terms and Arbogast nominated an imperial official, Eugenius ( r. 392 – 394 ), as emperor in the West.

Eugenius made some modest attempts to win pagan support, and with Arbogast led a large army to fight another destructive civil war.

The team includes: Donald Crease, a former CIA officer and high-strung family man ; Darryl " Mother " Roskow, a conspiracy theorist with unsurpassed technical skills and dexterity ; Carl Arbogast, a young genius ; and Erwin " Whistler " Emory, a blind phone phreak with an acute sense of hearing.

These surviving offices were later incorporated into the America On Wheels museum, which was opened on the site of the former Arbogast & Bastian plant in 2008.

The former offices of Arbogast & Bastian, which survived demolition in the late 1990s, now house the administrative offices for the America On Wheels museum.

Allentown businessman Raymond E. Holland, former president of Holiday Hair Fashions, had purchased the abandoned Arbogast & Bastian plant for $ 250, 000 in 1985 and gave it to the Allentown Economic Development Corp. as a charitable contribution in 1990.

The offices of Arbogast & Bastian, which had not been torn down, were later incorporated into the America On Wheels museum, which was opened on the site of the former Arbogast & Bastian plant in 2008.

It has been stated by some ancient historians that he was the son of Flavius Bauto, Valentinian II's former magister militum and protector before Arbogast, but modern scholars largely discount this claim.

Arbogast, who was born in Freeburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, in 1851, was a school teacher by training who entered the wholesale provisioning business in the early 1880s in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

According to Ambrose of Milan, the body of Valentinian II was sent by Arbogast to Milan for a proper funeral, and four months later in August 392, Arbogast nominated Eugenius, a Roman teacher of rhetoric, as the next emperor in the West.