Magister militum Flavius Ricimer

Abt 405 - 472  (67 years)

• Name	Flavius Ricimer
  Title	Magister militum
  Birth	Abt 405	Galicia, Spain
  Gender	Male
  ....+by+historian+James+M.+O%27Flynn%2C+who+writes%3A	Circumstances in the West demanded the existence of a supreme military commander who had a long record of intimate contact with barbarian troops; by the 470s, this virtually meant that he should be a barbarian. If a barbarian was unacceptable on the imp
  Military Service	456	Agrigento, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
  	Battle of Agrigentum - defeated a fleet of 60 ships, sent by Vandal king Gaiseric to raid Sicily
  Military Service	456	Italy
  	Battle of Corsica - defeated the same fleet of 60 ships, sent by Vandal king Gaiseric
  Deed	Oct 456	Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
  Title of Nobility	From 461 to 472
  	Magister militum (de facto military dictator) of the Western Roman Empire
  Military Service	464	Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
  	Battle of Bergamo - defeated and killed the Alan king Beorgor who invaded Northern Italy, marching his force into the Po Valley~
  Military Service	472	Roma, Lazio, Italy
  	Siege of Rome - defeated the Western Roman emperor Anthemius
  paternity+of+Ricimer....	Rechila may have been the father or perhaps uncle of the "magister militum" Ricimer.
  Ricimer+ruled+without+a+Western+Roman+Emperor	There were three periods in which no Western emperor reigned at all. All Ricimer's public actions suggest that he found the Western emperor an irrelevant encumbrance, and he would probably have preferred to rule Italy directly in the name of the emperor
  Successor+to+Ricimer	Without a powerful figure to guide it, the Western Roman Empire experienced an even more rapid succession of emperors, none of whom was able to effectively consolidate power. The line of Western Roman Emperors ended arguably in either 476 (with Odoacer'
  Title of Nobility	Patrician of the moribund Western Roman Empire
  Occupation	Magister militum
  _FSFTID	GNKZ-5SZ
  Death	18 Aug 472	Roma, Lazio, Italy
  Burial	Trastevere, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
  Person ID	I58156	My Genealogy | Gent Tree received from familysearch
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Rechiar I der Sueben,   b. 392, Germany d. Aug 448, Mérida, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Rainha Dos Visigodos Flávia Valiana,   b. Abt 383, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France d. Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
  Family ID	F26359	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alypia Anthemius,   b. 450, Roma, Roman Empire d. 6 Sep 467, Roma, Lazio, Italy (Age 17 years)
  Marriage	Abt 468	Roma, Lazio, Italy
  Children	1. Reine Consort de Bourgogne Catérène Agrippina,   b. 450, Lyon, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France d. 493, Lyon, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 43 years)   2. Iglesia of Suevi,   b. 451   d. DECEASED   3. of Burgundy Aunemundus,   b. 470   d. DECEASED
  Family ID	F25615	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2023