First he chose Messianus, one of his collaborators in his embassy to the Visigoths ordered by Petronius Maximus, as the new magister militum ; then he probably went to Gaul ( Hydatius says to Arelate ) to collect all the available forces, probably the Visigoth guard he had just disbanded ; finally he led his forces against the troops of Ricimer, near Piacenza.

Despite the scarcity of sources, if his date of birth is accepted as that given above or at least within the window between 375 and 385 it can be seen that Orosius grew up during a period of cultural flourishing along with Hydatius and the Ávitos.

Through the exertions of Hydatius of Emerita, the leading Priscillianists, who had failed to appear before the synod of Hispanic and Aquitanian bishops to which they had been summoned, were excommunicated at Zaragoza in October 380, according to Sulpicius, a conclusion that was emphatically denied in a letter to Damasus, Liber ad Damasum episcopum ( McKenna, note 14 ).

Hydatius, a historian who lived at the time of Attila's invasion, reports the number of 300, 000 dead.

Hydatius attributes the assassination to revolting troops of the Roman army, enraged at Maximus ' attempted flight.

Hydatius attributes the assassination to revolting troops of the Roman army, enraged at Maximus ' attempted flight.

Oost has pointed out that in his chronicle Hydatius wrote Placidia was unmarried as of 455.

Steven Muhlberger has subsequently pointed out for many of the events in his chronicle Hydatius are based on word of mouth, and many problems with his chronology " resulted from delays and distortions in the best information to which he had access "; the evidence of Hydatius is not as decisive as Oost believed in his article.

Hydatius or Idacius ( c. 400 – c. 469 ), bishop of Aquae Flaviae in the Roman province of Gallaecia ( almost certainly the modern Chaves, Portugal, in the modern district of Vila Real ) was the author of a chronicle of his own times that provides us with our best evidence for the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the 5th century.

Hydatius ' main claim to historical importance is the chronicle he wrote towards the end of his life.

Regardless of his sometimes very sophisticated literary devices, Hydatius ' chronicle is an essential source of information for reconstructing the course of fifth-century events.

Hydatius was the author of a chronicle of his own times that provides us with our best evidence for the history of Hispania in the 5th century.

St Ambrose was equally stern in his denunciation of the case and some of the Gallican bishops, who were in Trier under the leadership of Theognistus, broke off communion with Ithacius, who was subsequently deposed from his see by a synod of Hispanic bishops, and his friend and abettor Hydatius, was compelled to resign.

* Hydatius becomes bishop of Aquae Flaviae in Gallaecia ( modern Chaves ) in Portugal.

The most important sources are the chronicles that cover the second half of the 5th century — those of Hydatius and Marcellinus Comes, as well as the fragments of Priscus and John of Antioch.

In 431 he returned to Gaul, he received Hydatius, bishop of Aquae Flaviae, who complained about the attacks of the Suebi.

In 432 Aëtius again defeated the Franks, making peace with them, and he sent back Hydatius to the Suebi in Hispania.

His notable opponents in Hispania were Hyginus, bishop of Cordoba, and Hydatius, bishop of Mérida.

After a Priscillianist delegation to Hydatius was turned away, they appointed Priscillian bishop of Ávila, and the orthodox party found it necessary to appeal to the emperor Gratianus, who issued an edict threatening the sectarian leaders with banishment.

The contemporary historian Hydatius, who lived in Spain, considered the year 457 the third of Avitus ' reign ; Avitus ' own intentions are not known ; nor are the manner and date of his death, of which there are several versions.

For the history of his reign, the major sources are the Spaniard historian Hydatius ( 400 c. – 469 c .) and the Byzantine chronicler John of Antioch ( first half of the 7th century ):

The figures of both Jordanes and Hydatius are implausibly high.

The main sources for the career of Ataulf are Paulus Orosius, the chronicles of the Gallaecian bishop Hydatius, and those of Augustine's disciple, Prosper of Aquitaine.

Hydatius was born around the year 400 in the environs of Civitas Lemica, a Roman town near modern Xinzo de Limia in the Spanish Galician province of Ourense.

In this context, Hydatius took part in a deputation of 431 requesting assistance in dealing with the Suevi from the general Flavius Aëtius, the most important representative of the imperial government in the West.

Along with this concern, Hydatius devoted himself to rooting out heresy, not just in his own episcopal diocese, but in the rest of the Iberian Peninsula as well.

Though Hydatius consistently characterizes Iberian heretics as Manichees, it is generally believed that he meant Priscillianists, followers of the ascetic bishop Priscillian, who had been condemned as a heretic by several church councils and executed as a magician by the emperor Magnus Maximus around 385.

We know very little else about Hydatius ' life, though we know he was kidnapped and imprisoned for a time in 460 by local enemies, which suggests he played an important role in the internal politics of Roman Gallaecia.

Together with Pausanias, he later moved to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights ; it is here that he probably died around 401 BC.

Alaric died soon after in Cosenza, probably of fever, at the age of about forty ( assuming again, a birth around 370 AD ), and his body was, according to legend, buried under the riverbed of the Busento.

Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.

When Kerbogha was defeated, Adhemar organized a council in an attempt to settle the leadership disputes, but he died on 1 August 1098, probably of typhus.

The dates of his birth and death are uncertain, but he was probably born before 1050 and died on 12 October of an unknown year ( Possibly 1081, latest 1085 ).

Jefferson died in Chicago at 10 am on December 19, 1929, of what his death certificate called " probably acute myocarditis ".

)), whereupon he promptly died of exhaustion, probably of a heart attack.

The third letter is extant, but no trace of an answer appears in St. Gregory's correspondence, owing probably to the fact that the pope died in 604, about the time it reached Rome.

235 ) (), often seen as just Aelian, born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222.

Kenneth's son Constantine died in 876, probably killed fighting against a Viking army which had come north from Northumbria in 874.

Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors.

Early in the morning of 30 May 1832 he was shot in the abdomen and died the following morning at ten o ' clock in the Cochin hospital ( probably of peritonitis ) after refusing the offices of a priest.

They had two children Robert ( 1803 ) and Fanny ( 1805 ) but the girl died within months, and George's wife died, probably of tuberculosis or, the year after.

It is probably these difficulties that prompted Telemann to apply, already in 1722, for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig ( Kuhnau died on 5 June that year ).

He died, probably in Larissa, at the age of 83, 85 or 90, though some say he lived to be well over 100.

Hipparchus was born in Nicaea, Bithynia ( now Iznik, Turkey ), and probably died on the island of Rhodes.

After passing on his company to his sons, Wedgwood died at home, probably of cancer of the jaw, in 1795.

He was born, probably, at Strasbourg, and died there between 1634 and 1637.

Laika probably died within hours after launch from overheating, possibly caused by a failure of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload.

Verus ( III ) probably died in 124, during his praetorship, when Marcus was only three years old.

Mieszko II died suddenly between 10 and 11 July 1034, probably in Poznań.

Owain probably had an elder brother called Madog, but he may have died young.

The breach subsequently became wider, and the Emperor was about to be excommunicated when Adrian died at Anagni on 1 September 1159, reputedly choking on a fly in his wine, but probably of quinsy.

Gregory VI himself was taken by the Emperor to Germany in May 1047, where he died in 1048, probably at Cologne.