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The magister equitum, like the Dictator, had unchallengeable authority in all civil and military affairs, with his decisions only being overturned by the Dictator himself.
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Mark Antony had been the most important and most successful senior officer in Julius Caesar's army ( magister equitum ) and, thanks to his military record, could claim a substantial share of the political support of Caesar's soldiers and veterans.
When a Dictator entered office, he appointed to serve as his second-in-command a magister equitum, the Master of the Horse, whose office ceased to exist once the Dictator left office.
The magister equitum held Praetorian imperium, was attended by six lictors, and was charged with assisting the Dictator in managing the State.
When the Dictator was away from Rome, the magister equitum usually remained behind to administer the city.
Once there, he decided to first call Ursicinus, Gallus ’ magister equitum, to Mediolanum for reasons that remain unclear.
He was also titled " magister equitum et peditum " (" Master of the Horse and of Foot "), placing him in charge of both the cavalry and infantry forces of the Western Roman Empire.
Constantius accepted Julian's report of events and Marcellus was replaced as magister equitum by Severus.
Instead of assuming the consulship, Crassus is accused of planning to become dictator and intending to name Caesar magister equitum.
* Constantius Gallus sends his general ( magister equitum ) Ursicinus to forcefully put down the Jewish revolt in Palestine.
Andragathius, magister equitum of Maximus and the killer of emperor Gratian, was defeated near Siscia while Maximus ' brother, Marcellinus, fell in battle at Poetovio.
This was done over the objections of Dagalaifus, the magister equitum.
This event allowed the magister equitum Theodosius to attack the Alamanni through Raetia – taking many Alamannic prisoners.
After his return in 369, Valentinian promoted Theodosius to magister equitum in place of Jovinus.
He was the first magister equitum, and the author of the first agrarian law.
In the following year, Titus Lartius Flavus was appointed the first dictator, and as his magister equitum he nominated Cassius.
On his return Count Theodosius succeeded Jovinus as the magister equitum praesentalis, at the court of Emperor Valentinian I, in which capacity he prosecuted another successful campaign against the Alemanni in 370.
The original command structure of the Late Roman army, with a separate magister equitum and a magister peditum in place of the later overall magister militum in the command structure of the army of the Western Roman Empire.
Initially two posts were created, one as head of the foot troops, as the magister peditum (" Master of the Foot "), and one for the more prestigious horse troops, the magister equitum (" Master of the Horse ").
On occasion, the offices would be combined under a single person, then styled magister equitum et peditum or magister utriusquae militiae (" master of both forces ").
* 362 – 364: Flavius Iovinus, magister equitum under Julian and Jovian
magister and like
John was probably, like his brothers, assigned a magister whilst he was at Fontevrault, a teacher charged with his early education and with managing the servants of his immediate household ; John was later taught by Ranulph Glanville, a leading English administrator.
They were organised, like a lay corporation, in a decuria under the presidency of a magister quinquennalis.
The Polish equivalent of Master of Science is " magister " ( abbreviation " mgr ", placed before one's name, like Dr ).
The title, employed also by Johannes de Garlandia, means that Perotinus, like Leoninus, earned the degree magister artium, almost certainly in Paris, and that he was licensed to teach.
magister and had
Honorius was still a minor ; as his guardian, Theodosius had appointed the magister militum Stilicho.
Here his rampage continued until the eastern government appointed him magister militum per Illyricum, giving him the Roman command he had desired, as well as the authority to resupply his men from the imperial arsenals.
Constantius had made him magister militum in 353, with the purpose of blocking the German threats, a feat that Silvanus achieved by bribing the German tribes with the money he had collected.
:" All the little redoubts that they had in that place, which are said to be ( list ) ... and around the Drusine marsh ... he ( frater Hermannus magister ) assaulted and levelled by rendering them into ash, after the infidels had been killed or captured.
By the time the Antipope Christopher ( 903 – 904 ) seized the chair of Saint Peter by force, circumstances had changed at Rome, with the rise of the magister militum Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, who had been stationed at Rome by the retreating emperor Louis the Blind in 902.
* Spring – Gerontius, Roman general ( magister militum ), who had been a partisan of Constantine III revolts in Hispania.
Nepos was married to the niece of Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I, hence his nepos — " nephew " — agnomen, and was named as Emperor in the West by Leo in 474, in order to end the reign of the usurper Glycerius, who had been raised to the throne by the Burgundian magister militum Gundobad in the western capital of Ravenna.
602 ) married Philippicus ( c. 550 – Chrysopolis, 614 ), General, comes excubitorum and magister militum in 582, by whom she had a daughter, who married Artabastus ( Artavazd ) Mamikonian ( b. ca 565 ), and had issue.
It was only in the following year, after Joannes had been defeated in a combined naval and land campaign, that Valentinian was installed by the eastern patricius et magister officiorum Helion as Western Emperor in Rome, on October 23, 425, at the age of six.
In fact, while the emperor was busy away from Italy, the barbarian patricius et magister militum had gathered around himself the aristocratic opposition to his former comrade with whom, just a few years earlier, he had cultivated dreams of power.
Ricimer went to meet Majorian with a military detachment ; the magister militum met the Emperor near Tortona ( not far from Piacenza, where Avitus had been killed ), and had him arrested and deposed ( August 3 ).
With their help he returned to power, receiving the title of magister utriusque militiae ; he had Bonifacius ' son-in-law, Sebastianus, who had succeeded to Bonifacius as magister militum praesentalis, exiled from Italy to Constantinople, bought the properties of Bonifacius and married his widow Pelagia.
According to ancient sources, the earliest reference to Tarasis dates back to 464, when he put his hands on some letters written by Aspar's son, Ardabur, which proved that the son of the magister militum had incited the Sassanid King to invade Roman territory, promising to support the invasion.
Sarus had some initial success, winning a major victory and killing both of Constantine ’ s magister militia, but a relief force drove him back and saved the rebellion.
magister and authority
He restores the imperial authority in Noricum ( modern Austria ) and leaves a Gothic force under Remistus, Visigoth general ( magister militum ), at Ravenna.
Since the term " magister " also means " teacher ," the Magisterial Reformation is also characterized by an emphasis on the authority of a teacher.
He probably travelled to Noricum to restore the imperial authority in that province, and then passed through Ravenna, where he left a Gothic force under the new patricius and magister militum Remistus, a Visigoth.
In the course of the 6th century, internal and external crises in the provinces often necessitated the temporary union of the supreme regional civil authority with the office of the magister militum.
For a short time Anno exercised the chief authority in the kingdom, but he was soon obliged to share this with Adalbert, Archbishop of Bremen, and Siegfried I, Archbishop of Mainz, retaining for himself the supervision of Henry's education and the title of magister.
The magister officiorum ( master of offices ) made all the major decisions concerning intelligence matters, receiving a large budget, over which the comes sacrarum largitionum probably only had partial authority.
Capitalizing upon this precedent and taking it one step further, the emperor Maurice sometime between 585 and 590 created the office of exarch, which combined the supreme civil authority of a praetorian prefect and the military authority of a magister militum, and enjoyed considerable autonomy from Constantinople.
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