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As Aspar could not sit on the throne because of his barbaric origin, he opposed Anthemius whose prestige would have made him independent and chose a low-ranking military officer, Leo ; in the West, as his barbaric origin barred Ricimer from the throne, it was Majorian who received the purple.
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However, Aspar could not become emperor because of his Arian religion.
Aspar, who in this occasion was probably offered the throne by the Senate but refused, could have chosen his own son Ardabur, but instead selected an obscure tribune of one of his military units, Leo I.
Aspar and on
Her death leaves Flavius Aspar ( magister militum ) as the dominant influence on her husband, Marcian.
In 431 / 434, while fighting in Africa under Aspar, Marcian was taken prisoner by the Vandals ; according to a later legend, he was brought before King Geiseric ( 428 – 477 ), who knew by an omen that Marcian was to be Emperor and was released on his oath never to take up arms against the Vandals.
He was the last of a series of emperors placed on the throne by Aspar, the Alan serving as commander-in-chief of the army, who thought Leo would be an easy puppet ruler.
The Eastern Emperor Theodosius II organized a military expedition westward, led by Ardaburius and his son Aspar, to put his cousin, the young Valentinian III ( who was a nephew of Honorius ), on the western throne.
Sources are contradictory on the causes, but clearly state that in 471, Leo I had Aspar and Ardabur treacherously killed, certainly with Zeno's and Basiliscus ' approval, as in the eve of the murders, the two generals had moved closer to Constantinople ( Zeno was at Chalcedon ).
In 471 an imperial conspiracy caused the death of Aspar and of his elder son Ardabur: it is possible that Patricius died on this occasion, although some sources report that he recovered from his wounds.
The scandal caused a rift in the relations of Leo and Aspar, leaving the former relying even more on the Excubitors.
Only the approximate course of the wall is known: it began at the Church of St. Anthony at the Golden Horn, near the modern Atatürk Bridge, ran southwest and then southwards, passed east of the great open cisterns of Mocius and Aspar, and ended near the Church of the Theotokos of the Rhabdos on the Propontis coast, somewhere between the later sea gates of St. Aemilianus and Psamathos.
After securing a strong position on the Roman side of the Danube, the Huns were checked by the Roman army of general Aspar in Thrace ( 442 ).
Aspar and throne
Aspar, the magister militum (" Master of soldiers ") of the Eastern Roman Empire, was unable to claim the throne for himself due to his origins and religious affiliations.
In 457 they offered to make the Master of Soldiers, the Alan Aspar, Emperor, but the tribune and Senator Leo I, who was Aspar's subordinate, ascended to the throne.
Aspar and because
Zeno was informed of their intention and fled to Serdica, and because of this episode, Leo grew even more suspicious of Aspar.
Aspar and origin
Pulcheria married a man of Illyrian origin, named Marcian, Marcian was a tribune and a close associate of the Germanic general Aspar.
Aspar and whose
According to some scholars, in the mid-460s, Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I wanted to balance the weight of the Germanic component of the army, whose leader was the Alan magister militum Aspar.
The first Leonine Emperor, the Dacian army officer Leo I ( whose coronation is the first known to involve the Patriarch of Constantinople ), came to power through the machinations of the late Marcian's Alan master of the soldiers, Aspar, who as a result of his barbarian birth and religious heterodoxy ( Aspar as an Arian ) was unable to don the purple for himself.
Aspar and would
: I have removed Aspar and Ardaburius from this world, so that no one who might oppose me would survive.
Instead, Leo became more and more independent from Aspar, causing a tension that would have culminated in the assassination of the barbarian.
However, as for the clergy and people of Constantinople an Arian was not eligible to become an emperor, at the news of the appointment riots broke out in the city hippodrome, led by the head of the Sleepless Monks, Marcellus: Aspar and Leo had to promise to the bishops that Patricius would convert to Orthodoxy before becoming emperor, and only after the conversion he would have married Leontia.
Aspar and made
Leo I made an alliance with the Isaurians and was thus able to eliminate Aspar.
Aspar and him
* The Vandals in North Africa defeat the Roman general Aspar and force him to withdraw.
What happened was that Leo sent some of his personal soldiers with Zeno to protect him, but they were bribed by Aspar to actually capture him.
In 470, in an episode of the struggle for power between Aspar and the Isaurian general Zeno, Aspar persuaded the emperor to appoint his second son, Julius Patricius, as caesar and give him in marriage his daughter Leontia.
Aspar and military
He removes Aspar and Areobindus ( magister militum ) from their military commands.
Though his family had served in the Roman military for generations, Aspar was still considered a barbarian.
Aspar and officer
In 466, Tarasicodissa, an Isaurian officer of the Excubitors came forth with evidence that Ardabur, a son of Aspar, was guilty of treason.
Aspar and Leo
* Basiliscus, brother-in-law of emperor Leo I, returns from exile ( see 468 ) and leads a imperial conspiracy against Aspar ( magister militum ) in helping his murder at Constantinople.
In 465, Leo and Aspar quarrelled about the appointment of consuls for the following year ; it was in this occasion that Tarasis ' position was strengthened, as he become friend and ally of the Emperor.
With Zeno far from Constantinople, Aspar had increased his influence by having his son Julius Patricius appointed Caesar and married to Leo I's younger daughter, Leontia ( 470 ).
In 471 and 472, Basiliscus helped Leo I to get rid of the Germanic influence in his court, helping in the murder of the Alan Magister militum Aspar.
* Croke, Brian, " Dynasty and Ethnicity: Emperor Leo and the Eclipse of Aspar ", Chiron 35 ( 2005 ), 147-203.
In 461, Leo founded the Excubitors as a counterbalance to the Germanic soldiers under Aspar.
In 471, Aspar and Ardabur were murdered within the Great Palace of Constantinople by orders of Leo.
Aspar and Ricimer
Therefore both empires had no Emperor, and the power was in the hands of the Western generals, Ricimer and Majorian, and of the Eastern Magister militum, the Alan Aspar.
Aspar and from
After recovering from his illness, he went to Constantinople, where he served for fifteen years as domesticus under the generals Ardaburius and Aspar.
Aspar and was
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aspar and Areobindus ( or, less frequently, year 1187 Ab urbe condita ).
Leontia was first betrothed to Julius Patricius, a son of Aspar, but their engagement was probably annulled when Aspar and another of his sons, Ardabur, were assassinated in 471.
The death of Aspar caused a revolt in Thrace, led by the Thracian Ostrogoth Theodoric Strabo, and Basiliscus was dispatched to suppress the revolt, something he successfully did with the aid of his nephew Armatus.
Flavius Ardabur Aspar ( c. 400 – 471 ) was an Alan patrician and magister militum (" Master of soldiers ") of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Aspar was the teacher of Theodoric the Great, who later became king of the Ostrogoths.
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