In Gaul the Saxon element on its Saxon Shore was plainly visible because there the Saxons were an intrusive element in the population.

This epithet was given to Apollo in parts of Gaul, Northern Italy and Noricum ( part of modern Austria ).

His father was Aurelius Ambrosius, the praetorian prefect of Gaul ; his mother was a woman of intellect and piety.

When Magnus Maximus usurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy, Valentinian sent Ambrose to dissuade him from the undertaking, and the embassy was successful.

At Alba Augusta ( Alba-la-Romaine ) the devastation was so complete, that the Christian bishop retired to Viviers, but in Gregory's account at Mende in Lozère, also deep in the heart of Gaul, bishop Privatus was forced to sacrifice to idols in the very cave where he was later venerated.

Germanicus was a candidate for future succession and had won fame campaigning in Germania and Gaul.

The most serious consequence of this battle was not the loss of their possessions in Gaul to the Franks ; with Ostrogothic help, much of the Gallic territory was recovered, Herwig Wolfram notes, perhaps as far as Toulouse.

The following year he was called to face German invaders in Gaul, who had breached the Rhine frontier in several places, destroying forts and over-running the countryside.

He returned to Italy with Ursicinus, when he was recalled by Constantius, and accompanied him on the expedition against Claudius Silvanus, who had been forced by the allegedly unjust accusations of his enemies into proclaiming himself emperor in Gaul.

Kelly asserts that Vincent of Lérin was not its author, but that it may have come from the same milieu, namely the area of Lérins in southern Gaul.

In 451, the Hunnic leader Attila invaded Gaul with a large army which was ultimately routed at the Battle of Châlons by a Roman-led coalition under the general Aetius.

Catus Decianus, who had fled to Gaul, was replaced by Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus.

Catullus came from a leading equestrian family of Verona in Cisalpine Gaul, and according to St. Jerome, he was born in the town.

While many cities ( as in Gaul ) had a double-headed chief magistracy, often another title was used, such as Duumvir or native styles such as Meddix, but Consul was used in some.

He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul and was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy.

Now the road to Italy was open, but they turned west towards Gaul.

Constantine was eventually trapped at Aquileia, where he died, leaving Constans to inherit all of his brother ’ s former territories – Hispania, Britannia and Gaul.

As he was trying to reach either Italy or Spain, Magnentius ' supporters cornered him in a fortification in Vicus Helena ( now Elne ) in the Pyrenees, southwestern Gaul, where he was killed by Magnentius ' assassins after seeking sanctuary in a temple.

Indeed, 12 years later, when he had thrice rescued Gaul from Umayyad invasions, Antonio Santosuosso noted when he destroyed an Umayyad army sent to reinforce the invasion forces of the 735 campaigns, " Charles Martel again came to the rescue.

In 353, Constantius and Magnentius met for what would be the final time at the Battle of Mons Seleucus in southern Gaul, and again, Constantius emerged the victor.

In the meantime, Julian had won some victories against the Alemanni tribe, who had once again invaded Roman Gaul.

* The Visigoths under king Theodoric II recapture Septimania ( Southern Gaul ) after the assassination of Majorian and invade Hispania again.

In 735, the new governor of al-Andalus again invaded Gaul.

The classical orders – Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian – have meaning in the stylistic history of 5th century BC Greece, shifting to the developments in 1st century AD Gaul, with the styles revived over and over again since then.

Two years later he defeated Magnentius again in southern Gaul at the Battle of Mons Seleucus.

The name bagaudae reappears once again in the mid fifth century, when they are mentioned in control of parts of central Gaul and the Ebro valley.

After treating the Mediterranean islands, he next takes the ocean littoral — to west, north, east and south successively — from Spain and Gaul round to India, from India to Persia, Arabia and Ethiopia ; and so again works back to Spain round South Africa.

Related to later Emperor Olybrius, Maximus was the son of Anicius Probinus, the son of Anicia Faltonia Proba and Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus, who was Prefect of Illyricum in 364, Prefect of Gaul in 366, Prefect of Italy in 368 – 375 and again in 383 and consul in 371.

Bibulus tried again to block Caesar ’ s five year appointment as governor of the provinces of Cisalpine Gaul and Transalpine Gaul by declaring that no public business could be conducted whilst he observed the sky for omens, but was again rebuffed by Pompey and one of the consul-designates who supported Caesar ’ s appointment.

In 451, under threat of a major invasion of the Huns in Gaul, Avitus again negotiated a treaty between Rome and the Visigoths, and they jointly defeated the Huns.

The army Metellus had commanded in Africa was assigned to the senior consul Lucius Cassius Longinus to expel the Cimbri who were once again encroaching on the Roman province of Gaul across the Alps.

Although their peace-keeping mission probably created more casualties than a Gothic invasion of Rome would, the three Gauls make it back to Gaul, again running into the over eager young legionary at the border, return home confident and are welcomed with open arms by the village, who throw their usual banquet in celebration.

New risings occurred in 24 – 22 BC ( the 2nd Astur-Cantabrian War ), in 20 – 18 BC ( 3rd Astur-Cantabrian ‘ War ’) – sparked off by runway Cantabrian slaves returning from Gaul, which were brutally quashed by General Marcus Vispanius Agrippa – and again in 16 – 13 BC when Augustus ’ crushed the last joint Astur-Cantabrian rebellion.

That the tablet does date to Roman Gaul is suggested by the final Ρ of ΝΑΝΤΑΡΩΡ: it was at first written as a Latin R, the additional stroke having been removed again as a scribal error.

The major source of materials on the Celts of Gaul was Poseidonios of Apamea, whose writings were quoted by Timagenes, Julius Caesar, the Sicilian Greek Diodorus Siculus, and the Greek geographer Strabo.

Gregory's hagiographies are also an invaluable source of anecdotes and stories which enrich our understanding of life and belief in Merovingian Gaul, whilst it is fascinating to study works such as these which must have excited their audience to such an extent.

Posidonius was the major source of materials on the Celts of Gaul and was profusely quoted by Timagenes, Julius Caesar, the Sicilian Greek Diodorus Siculus, and the Greek geographer Strabo.

The book is important to some medieval historians because it mentions the campaign in Gaul of one Riothamus, " King of the Brettones ," who was a possible source of inspiration for the early stories of King Arthur.

Eligius was a source of edification at court, where he and his friend Dado lived according to the strict Irish monastic rule that had been introduced into Gaul by Saint Columbanus.

His description, De Bello Gallico, is our principal source of knowledge of pre-Roman Gaul, but there is no specific mention of this area.

In his History of Gaul, the historian Camille Jullian writes these lines about the Aedui: " Bibracte, I am sure, was the source and the guarantee of their power.

It was the location of a Saxon Shore fort, and, according to a fifth-century source was garrisoned by a regiment originally raised in Tournai in northern Gaul.

Yet another suggests that the book is a compilation of Roman Masses made in the sixth or seventh century for use in Gaul, so that the composers of Roman books who were at that time introducing the Roman Rite into Gaul might have a source from which to draw their material.

Ambicatus ( or Ambigatos in Gaulish ) is mentioned in the founding legend of Mediolanum ( Milan ) by Livy, whose source is Timagenes, as a king of the Bituriges, " kings of the world " as their name suggests, who ruled over the Celts in central Gaul, between Hispania and Germany, in the days of Tarquinius Priscus ( the fifth century BCE ).

A Roman source reports that " The Cimbri, Teutones and Tigurini, fugitives from the extreme parts of Gaul, since the Ocean had inundated their territories, began to seek new settlement throughout the world.