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Macrinus managed to escape ito Chalcedon but his authority was lost: he was betrayed and executed after a short reign of just 14 months.
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Macrinus and Chalcedon
Macrinus fled toward Italy, disguised as a courier, but was later intercepted near Chalcedon and executed in Cappadocia.
Macrinus flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
Macrinus was recognised by a centurion at Chalcedon on the Bospurus, taken back to Antioch and killed.
Macrinus and was
In 217, the emperor Caracalla was assassinated and replaced by his Praetorian prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
Macrinus was defeated on 8 June 218, at the Battle of Antioch.
Macrinus now sent letters to the Senate denouncing Elagabalus as the False Antoninus and claiming he was insane.
Caracalla and Julia Domna were both deified by the Senate, both Julia Maesa and Julia Soaemias were elevated to the rank of Augustae, and the memory of both Macrinus and Diadumenianus was condemned by the Senate.
The book is dedicated to a Macrinus, who may have been the emperor who reigned 217-218, but that name was not uncommon, and it seems more likely he was simply a young man with a thirst for universal knowledge, which the book was compiled to satisfy.
Opelius Macrinus was born in 164 at Caesarea.
Three days later, Macrinus was declared Augustus.
M. Opelius Diadumenianus was the son of Macrinus, born in 208.
This revolt spread to the entire Syrian army ( which, at the time, was swollen with troops raised by the Emperor Caracalla, and not fully loyal to Macrinus ), and eventually they were to win the short struggle that followed by defeating Macrinus at a battle just outside Antioch.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macrinus and Celsus ( or, less frequently, year 917 Ab urbe condita ).
Caracalla was succeeded by his Praetorian Guard Prefect, Macrinus, who ( according to Herodian ) was most probably responsible for having the emperor assassinated.
Mauretania gave to the empire one emperor, the equestrian Macrinus, who seized power after the assassination of Caracalla in 217 but was himself defeated and executed by Elagabalus the next year.
Centuries later, the emperor Caracalla was murdered here at the instigation of Macrinus ( 217 ).
According to sources, the downfall of Plautianus was largely due to suspicion of Severus ' son Caracalla, who was himself later murdered and replaced by his Praetorian prefect Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* Marcius Agrippa, a slave of the 3rd century who was eventually elevated to senatorial rank by Macrinus
This initially unexpected and humiliating defeat for Rome was followed by numerous campaigns over the next two centuries entailing many notable engagements such as: the Battle of Cilician Gates, Mount Gindarus, Mark Antony's Parthian Campaign and finally culminating in the bloody Battle of Nisibis in 217 AD, which resulted in a slight Parthian victory and Emperor Macrinus being forced to concede peace with Parthia.
In 218, during Macrinus reign, Julia Maesa went to Raphana, Syria, where the legion was based under the command of P. Valerius Comazon Eutychianus.
Macrinus and executed
* 218 – Macrinus deposed and executed, Elagabalus is installed on the throne
Macrinus and after
The biography of Macrinus is notoriously unreliable, and after a partial reversion to reliability in the Elagabalus, the life of Alexander Severus, one of the longest biographies in the entire work, develops into a kind of exemplary and rhetorical fable on the theme of the wise philosopher king.
Macrinus became emperor in 217 after Caracalla was murdered by Justin Martialus while fighting the Parthians.
Macrinus and reign
When the emperor Macrinus came to power, he suppressed the threat against his reign by the family of his assassinated predecessor, Caracalla, by exiling them — Julia Maesa, her two daughters, and her eldest grandson Elagabalus — to their estate at Emesa in Syria.
Macrinus and just
General Gannys, the Commander of Elagabalus's forces, marched against him and Macrinus was decisively defeated just outside Antioch on 8 June 218, with most of his forces abandoning him.
Macrinus and 14
* May 16 – Julia Maesa, an aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her grandson Elagabalus, age 14, emperor of Rome.
Diadumenian () ( 14 / 19 September 208 – 218 ), was the son of the Roman Emperor Macrinus, and served his father briefly as Caesar ( May 217 – 218 ) and as Augustus ( in 218 ).
Macrinus and months
After months of mild rebellion by the bulk of the army in Syria, Macrinus took his loyal troops to meet the army of Elagabalus near Antioch.
Macrinus and .
* 217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated ( and succeeded ) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
The Persians were driven back but then Macrianus proclaimed his two sons Quietus and Macrianus ( sometimes wrongly spelled Macrinus ) as emperors towards the end of the summer of that year.
Almost upon arrival in Syria she began a plot, with her advisor and Elagabalus ' tutor Gannys, to overthrow Macrinus and elevate the fourteen-year-old Elagabalus to the imperial throne.
In response Macrinus dispatched his Praetorian prefect Ulpius Julianus to the region with a contingent of troops he considered strong enough to crush the rebellion.
Macrinus and his son, weakened by the desertion of the Second Legion due to bribes and promises circulated by Julia Maesa, were defeated on 8 June 218 at the Battle of Antioch by troops commanded by Gannys.
Letters of reconciliation were dispatched to Rome extending amnesty to the Senate and recognizing the laws, while also condemning the administration of Macrinus and his son.
* 218 – Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats with support of the Syrian legions the forces of emperor Macrinus.
* 218 – Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
On account of the cruelty and treachery of the emperor, Macrinus became involved in a conspiracy to kill him, and ordered the praetorian guard to do so.
Marcus Opellius Macrinus head of the Praetorian Guard, declares himself Roman emperor.
managed and escape
Although, the young prince's troops could get the mastery in 1189 when the boyars of Halych rose against his rule, but shortly afterwards Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich managed to escape from his captivity and he expelled the Hungarian troops from Halych.
The king had his brother arrested, but Andrew managed to escape shortly afterwards.
The deposed Emperor attempted to escape in a boat with his wife Agnes and his mistress, but was captured ( note that by some, Andronikos not only survived, but also managed to escape to the then self-proclaimed Kingdom of Cyprus ).
Godwine ( Bishop of Rochester ), Leofrun ( abbess of St Mildrith's ), and the king's reeve, Ælfweard were captured also, but the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Ælfmaer, managed to escape.
Both al-Fihri and al-Sumayl managed to escape the field ( probably ) with parts of the army too.
Al-Fihri himself managed to escape to the former Visigoth capital of Toledo in central al-Andalus ; once there, he was promptly killed.
When Heureux and Mercure had cut their anchor cables to escape the exploding Orient, their crews had panicked and neither captain ( both of whom were wounded ) had managed to regain control of their ship.
In the spring of 1974, the police came to Kabul University to arrest Rabbani for his pro-Islamic stance, but with the help of his students the police were unable to capture him, and he managed to escape to the countryside.
About a dozen of the crewmen managed to escape the sinking submarine, and Lieutenant Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, ordered the surviving sailors to be summarily executed after they boarded the Nicosian.
The town and other parts of the East Bay somehow managed to escape serious damage from the massive temblor, and thousands of refugees flowed across the Bay.
Mark Antony transferred to a smaller vessel with his flag and managed to escape, taking a few ships with him as an escort to help break through Octavian's lines.
The ELN guerrilla had been seriously crippled by military operations in the region of Anorí by 1974, but it managed to reconstitute itself and escape destruction, in part due to the administration of Alfonso López Michelsen ( 1974 – 1978 ) allowing it to escape encirclement, hoping to initiate a peace process with the group.
Murbella pilots a small craft down to the surface, announcing herself as an Honored Matre who, in the confusion, has managed to escape the Bene Gesserit with all their secrets.
Roman Legate Hilary, who as pope dedicated an oratory in the Lateran Basilica in thanks for his life, managed to escape from Constantinople and brought news of the Council to Leo who immediately dubbed it a " synod of robbers " — Latrocinium — and refused to accept its pronouncements.
Many of these insurgents managed to escape to the mountains where they formed independent maroon communities.
Domitian himself managed to escape by disguising himself as a worshipper of Isis, and spent the night in safety with one of his father's supporters.
Syn evaded capture while at the same time making sure that Imogene and Squire Cobtree's son Dennis ( who had fallen in love with Imogene ) would have a happy life together ( they were eventually married ), but was murdered in revenge by the mulatto, who then mysteriously managed to escape, leaving Syn harpooned through the neck.
Pichegru managed to escape to the United States and then returned to France where he was eventually executed for plotting against Napoleon.
Famous political figures to be sent to the islands included Alfred Dreyfus and Henri Charrière, who managed to escape.
Although the Romans won a clear victory over the Carthaginian relief force at the Battle of Agrigentum, the Carthaginian army defending the city managed to escape.
Only part of the Senate managed to escape from Helsinki to Vaasa.
Rear Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto tried to organize a coup on August 7, 2008, but was pre-empted and arrested ; however, he managed to escape the country.
They were defeated by the Roman navy but managed to escape into the Aegean Sea, where they ravaged the islands of Lemnos and Scyros, broke through Thermopylae and sacked several cities of southern Greece ( province of Achaea ) including Athens, Corinth, Argos, Olympia and Sparta.
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