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1. Arbogast was the de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire, and Valentinian II, age 20, had little say in any matters.
2. Arbogast, a Frank, was not a pure blooded Roman, and could not be an Emperor.
3. Arbogast was a capable military leader, but by all accounts also an arrogant and overbearing Frank.
4. Arbogast (1800) was the first, however, to separate the symbol of operation from that of quantity in a differential equation.
5. Since Arbogast was a pagan, and many of the Roman Senate still pagans, the old capital city was disposed to be favorable to the usurper.

Pagan Arbogast

1. The Frankish soldier and Pagan Arbogast, Valentinian's protector and magister militum, maintained that it was suicide.

General Arbogast

1. Following the mysterious death of Valentinian II, the general Arbogast was forced to save his life by elevating the administrator Eugenius to emperor.

Frankish General Arbogast

1. Valentinian was murdered four years later, perhaps by the Frankish general Arbogast, who then named the puppet Eugenius as emperor.
2. Four years later he was murdered at Vienne in Gaul, probably at the instigation of his Frankish general Arbogast, with whom he had quarrelled.
3. The Roman civil war of 394 AD was fought between the Roman emperor Theodosius I and the Frankish general Arbogast and his puppet usurper, Eugenius.

Little

1. Though Eugenius and Arbogast cared little for theology, they in fact represented the pagan forces last throw.

Murder

1. On May 15, 392, Valentinian died at Vienna (modern Vienne, France) in circumstances suggestive of murder instigated by Arbogast.

Part

1. For his part, Arbogast had few friends in the Eastern court, although his uncle Richomeres was chief commander of the eastern cavalry.
2. Arbogast, for his part, maintained that Valentinian had committed suicide.

West

1. He appoints Arbogast as magister militum in the West.
2. However, the eastern emperor Theodosius I refused to recognise Eugenius as emperor and invaded the West, defeating and killing Arbogast and Eugenius.

Fall

1. Shortly after his consecration, Arbogast raised Dagobert's son Sigebert to life when he had been killed by a fall from his horse.

Purple

1. On 22 August of that year, Arbogast elevated Flavius Eugenius, the Western imperial court's magister scrinii, to the purple.

Power

1. In 392 forces advocating paganism led by Arbogast and Eugenius took power in Rome.

Crisis

1. The crisis reached a peak when Valentinian formally dismissed Arbogast.

Own Name

1. Arbogast had been increasingly wielding power in his own name, and had begun to neglect to even preserve the fiction of Valentinian II's authority.

Suspected

1. However, it was widely assumed and is still suspected that Arbogast had simply arranged his murder.

Matters

1. Matters came to a head in 392 when Valentinian tried to cashier Arbogast and Arbogast simply refused to accept his command.

Battle

1. Before the battle, Eugenius and Arbogast placed a statue of Jupiter on the edge of the battlefield, and had applied images of Hercules on the army banners.
2. On September 5, 394, Theodosius attacked Arbogast in the Battle of the Frigidus on the banks of the Frigidus (Vipava) River.

Young Emperor

1. It was quite possibly true, for the young emperor had been hopelessly humiliated by Arbogast, and might have acted out of deep emotional despair.

Puppet Emperor

1. Arbogast, Valentinianus II's general-in-chief, murdered him in May 392, and replaced him with a puppet Emperor, Eugenius, a former rhetorician.

Frankish

1. In 392, the Frankish and pagan magister militum Arbogast assassinated Valentinian II and proclaimed an obscure senator named Eugenius as emperor.

Frank

1. The magister militum per Occidentem, the Frank Arbogast, has the pagan Eugenius chosen as emperor.
2. As it appeared increasingly likely that whatever course Theodosius decided upon would be hostile towards Arbogast, the Frank decided to make the first move.

Rhetoric

1. Eugenius was a well-respected scholar of rhetoric, and a better claimant to the purple than Arbogast himself.

Western Roman Empire

1. Arbogast soon became the de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire, and Valentinian II, age 20, had little say in any matters.

Roman Empire

1. September 6, 394), or Arbogast was a Frankish general in the Roman Empire.

Western Provinces

1. Theodosius' trusted general, the Frank Arbogast, was appointed magister militum for the Western provinces (bar Africa) and guardian of Valentinian.

Usurper

1. Arbogast installs the puppet Eugenius on the Western throne, but Theodosius refuses to recognize the usurper.

Gaul

1. Valentinian’s court was ensconsed at Vienne in Gaul, watched over by the Frankish general Arbogast, who was appointed magister militum.
2. In the same year his son Victor was killed by Comes Arbogast in Gaul.
3. After Maximus' death Theodosius may have considered taking over the West while leaving Valentinian II in Gaul with Arbogast as his minder.

Trier

1. They had him executed three miles outside Aquileia on 28 August 388, and sent Arbogast to do the same to his son Victor in Trier.

Death

1. His son, Flavius Victor, was captured by Arbogast, Theodosius 'Master of Soldiers', and was also put to death.

Suicide

1. Arbogast immediately committed suicide after the defeat, while Eugenius was held for execution as a criminal.
2. On September 6, Arbogast committed suicide immediately following his defeat in the Julian Alps.
3. Arbogast escaped the defeat and fled into the mountains, but after a few days' wandering, he concluded escape was impossible and committed suicide.

Emperor

1. Whether or not Arbogast had a hand in Valentinian’s death, he was to elevate an imperial official, Eugenius, as Emperor in the West.
2. In 392 Valentinian II was murdered, and shortly thereafter Arbogast arranged for the appointment of Eugenius as emperor.
3. The crisis reached a peak when Arbogast prohibited the emperor from leading the Gallic armies into Italy to oppose a barbarian threat.

Theodosius

1. Theodosius was victorious while Arbogast committed suicide and Eugenius was executed.
2. Theodosius again marched to Italy, where he defeated Arbogast and Eugenius in September 394.
3. Thus when word of his death reached Constantinople, Theodosius believed, or at least suspected, that Arbogast had engineered Valentinian's demise.

Magister Militum

1. Trouble arose again, after Valentinian died, and the magister militum Arbogast elected Eugenius.
2. Magister militum Arbogast was sent to Trier with orders to also kill Flavius Victor.
3. Theodosius appointed Arbogast as magister militum for the Western provinces.

Valentinian

1. After a quarrel with Arbogast, Valentinian II committed suicide or was murdered, and Arbogast set up in hi place his own puppet, Eugenius in AD 392.
2. When Valentinian attempted to dismiss him, Arbogast tore up the order and declared that only Theodosius possessed the power to do so.
3. Valentinian II either commited suicide or was murdered by Arbogast and Valentinian III was murdered by loyal supporters of the general Aetius.

Eugenius

1. After three months, during which he had no communication from Theodosius, Arbogast selected an imperial official, Eugenius, as emperor.
2. Arbogast, unable to assume the role of emperor, elected Eugenius, a former teacher of rhetoric.
3. Arbogast realised that Theodosius would not leave him in sole control or put him in charge of Honorius, so he set up Eugenius.

Arbogast

1. Not long after the death of Arbogast the emperor, Honorius, had little time to spend on the Franks, as Italy was being overrun by Goths.
2. His death was officially reported as a suicide but Arbogast, his magister militum was suspected to have had a hand in it.
3. The first chapter starts with the death of Valentinian and ends with the death of Theodosius and this centers on the generals Merobaudes, Bauto and Arbogast.

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