Praetor Anicius Probus first gave him a place in the council and then in about 372 made him consular prefect or " Governor " of Liguria and Emilia, with headquarters at Milan, which was then ( beside Rome ) the second capital in Italy.

Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux, used Bordeaux's 18th century big-scale rebuilding as a model when he was asked by Emperor Napoleon III to transform a then still quasi-medieval Paris into a " modern " capital that would make France proud.

Asterius was arrested for this action by the prefect Alexander and then killed by being thrown off a bridge into the Tiber River.

Following this change in status, the area around the Mission began to decay rapidly ; Santiago Argüello ( then prefect of the southern District of Los Angeles ) complained to the Commandant of the Presidio of Santa Barbara, Don José de la Guerra y Noriega, that "... the unfortunate missions of San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano been converted into brothels of the mayordomos.

In 1895, Yuxian, a Manchu who was then prefect of Caozhou and would later become provincial governor, acquired the help of the Big Sword Society in fighting against bandits.

Archelaus was judged incompetent by the Roman emperor Augustus who then combined Samaria, Judea proper and Idumea into Iudaea province under rule of a prefect until 41.

Tigellinus gained imperial favour through his acquaintance with Nero's mother Agrippina the Younger, and was appointed prefect upon the death of his predecessor Sextus Afranius Burrus, a position Tigellinus held first with Faenius Rufus and then Nymphidius Sabinus.

Papon was first named prefect of the Landes department in August 1944, and then chief of staff of the commissaire of the Republic of Aquitaine under Gaston Cusin.

He further distinguished himself in a campaign against the Chatti, ruled Dalmatia and Germania Inferior, and then was made prefect charged with distributing money to the poor of Italy.

Ataulf then turned Sebastianus over for execution to Honorius ' Gallic praetorian prefect ( provincial governor ), Postumus Dardanus.

The Praetorian prefect ( Praefectus praetorio ) began as the military commander of a general's guard company in the field, then grew in importance as the Praetorian Guard became a potential kingmaker during the Empire.

His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, of a good family of Toulouse, was chamberlain to Napoleon Bonaparte, but acquiesced in the restoration and became prefect first of Haute Garonne, and then of Nord.

The whole province ( including Vindelicia ) was at first under a military prefect, then under a procurator ; it had no standing army quartered in it but relied on its own native troops and militia for protection until the 2nd century AD.

After holding a subordinate office ( 1876 ) in the department of public works, he became successively prefect of the Tarn ( 1882 ) and the Haute-Garonne ( 1885 ), and then returned to Paris to enter the ministry of the interior.

The first half of the book relates Rupert's most dramatic incidents as Kensingtowe, including an ongoing " war " with his Housemaster, the so-called " Carpet Slippers ", receiving beatings and punishments, learning to do what is right, and his greatest hour-winning the school relay swimming race, only to be disqualified, then made a prefect on account of his maturity in dealing with the disappointment.

It is also possible that Postumus then elevated him to the post of praetorian prefect.

Maxentius sent his praetorian prefect Rufius Volusianus and a certain Zenas to quell the rebellion, and Alexander was taken prisoner and then executed by strangulation.

In 426, the new sovereign summoned him to court, where he spent two years with no real duty or power, but rather as a token to display loyalty: he then left for two years, but came back in 430 to defend himself against charges placed by his local prefect.

Later Ingelger was appointed prefect ( military commander ) at Tours, then ruled by Adalard.

He then returned to his alma mater of Notre Dame, where he served as prefect of religion and dean of the College of Commerce.

Avitus, the praetorian prefect of Gaul, who had great influence with King Theodoric I of the Visigoths, was then sent to Toulouse and brought about the conclusion of peace.

In July 2001, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, officially warned Milingo to separate from Sung and from contacts with the Unification Church.

However, it was not until 1893 that Louis Lépine, then prefect of police, organized efforts to actively track down the owners of lost items.

Bartolomeo Platina, the scholar who was prefect of the Vatican Library, wrote his Vitæ Pontificum Platinæ historici liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum qui hactenus ducenti fuere et XX in 1479 at the behest of his patron, Pope Sixtus IV.

The urban prefect Symmachus, who sought to maintain traditional Roman religion during the rise of Christianity, wrote:

* Aurelius Victor, prefect of the Pannonia Secunda province, wrote a History of Rome under the emperor Julian.

In 1956, a former RI prefect wrote that, during his time there, " boys were caned on their bottoms for even winking at the girls.

The governor general of Fukien gave Le Gendre permission to go to Taiwan himself, and wrote him a letter of introduction to take to the prefect of Taiwan, asking him to cooperate with Le Gendre, but adding that " if the consul takes measures to manage the case himself, please invite him not to do so, for these savages might give him more trouble that he thinks.

When, in 397, he wrote the Confessions, Augustine had changed his mind on Theodorus, who now was Praetorian prefect of Italy: Augustine described Theodorus as " a man inflated with monstrous pride " and despised his own admiration of him years before.

With their consent, he set up a rival emperor, the prefect of the city, a Greek named Priscus Attalus.

The prefect kept a staff of hundreds and managed affairs in all segments of government: in taxation, administration, jurisprudence, and minor military commands, the praetorian prefect was often second only to the emperor himself.

In 217, the emperor Caracalla was assassinated and replaced by his Praetorian prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.

His maternal grandfather was Julius Julianus, praetorian prefect of the East under emperor Licinius from 315 to 324 and consul after 325.

Damasus was also accused of murder before a later prefect, but his friends secured the personal intervention of the emperor to rescue him from this humiliation.

Although coming from a humble background that was not dynastically related to the Severan dynasty, he rose through the imperial household until, under the emperor Caracalla, he was made prefect of the praetorian guard.

He comes to terms with the Senate and sets up a rival emperor, Priscus Attalus, prefect ( praefectus urbi ) of the city.

Marcus Aurelius Carus, an Illyrian and praetorian prefect, is proclaimed new emperor.

In 282, the legions of the upper Danube in Raetia and Noricum proclaimed Numerian's father, the praetorian prefect Marcus Aurelius Carus, emperor, beginning a rebellion against the emperor Probus.

Ofonius Tigellinus, also known as Ophonius Tigellinus and Sophonius Tigellinus ( c. 10 – 69 ), was a prefect of the Roman imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, from 62 until 68, during the reign of emperor Nero.

He was a senator, and had filled various civil and military posts before he was appointed prefect of the Praetorian Guard by the emperor Probus in 282.

His father, Heliodorus, had not been a senator, but was nonetheless a man of some standing: he had been Hadrian's ab epistulis, followed the emperor on his travels, and was prefect of Egypt at the end of Hadrian's reign.

After the murder had been carried out, Pertinax, who was serving as urban prefect at this time, was hurried to the Praetorian Camp and proclaimed emperor the following morning.

Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, prefect of the city, father-in-law of the murdered emperor, being at that moment in the camp to which he had been sent to calm the troops, began making offers, when Julianus, having been roused from a banquet by his wife and daughter, arrived in all haste, and being unable to gain admission, stood before the gate, and with a loud voice competed for the prize.

After Pertinax was assassinated, the praetorian prefect Aemilius Laetus and his men, who had arranged the murder, " sold " the imperial throne to wealthy senator Didius Julianus, effectively crowning him emperor, but a string of mutinies from the troops in the provinces meant the next Emperor was far from decided.

When it became clear to Tiberius that support for Sejanus was not as strong as the emperor had feared, his next step was to choose Naevius Sutorius Macro, previously prefect of the vigiles ( Roman police and fire department ), to replace Sejanus and affect his downfall.

Upon the suicide of Emperor Nero in 68, the Guard prefect Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus attempted to have himself declared emperor, on the pretence that he was the illegitimate son of Caligula.

Valentinus was later arrested again for continuing to serve Jesus and was sent to the prefect of Rome, to the emperor Claudius himself.

One account records him declaring to the prefect, " The Church is truly rich, far richer than your emperor.

Philip the prefect executed the fresh orders of the emperor in hurrying Paul into exile to Thessalonica, and in reinstating Macedonius, but not without bloodshed.