Aspar
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Biography
Aspar was born the son of the magister
Aspar attained the
On 27 January 457 Marcian died, and the political and military establishment figures of the Eastern court took eleven days to choose a successor. Despite the presence of a strong candidate to the purple, the magister militum and Marcian's son-in-law Anthemius, the choice was quite different. Aspar, who in this occasion was probably offered the throne by the senate but refused,[11] could have chosen his own son Ardabur, but instead selected an obscure tribune of one of his military units, Leo I.[12]
In 470, in an episode of the struggle for power between Aspar and the
In 471 an imperial conspiracy organized by Leo I and the Isaurians caused the death of Aspar and of his elder son Ardabur. It is possible that Patricius died on this occasion, although some sources report that he recovered from his wounds. His death led to the ending of the Germanic domination of Eastern Roman policy.[2]
Aspar had another son, Ermanaric, with the sister of Theodoric Strabo and daughter of Triarius.[13] Aspar's wife was an Ostrogoth, as the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great was her nephew.[10] A cistern attributed to Aspar still exists today in Istanbul.
Notes
- ^ ISBN 0-5200-8511-6. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Retrieved November 2, 2012.
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Retrieved November 2, 2012.
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Retrieved November 2, 2012.
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Retrieved November 2, 2012.
- ^ Williams, p. 45.
- ^ Kanga, Kavasji Edalji; Dhabhar, Bamanji Nasarvanji (1909). An English-Avesta Dictionary. Printed at the Fort Printing Press. p. 260.
- ^ Bachrach, Bernard S. 1973. A history of the Alans in the West; from their first appearance in the sources of classical antiquity through the early Middle Ages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p.98
- ^ Basirov, Oric: The Origin of the Pre-Imperial Iranian Peoples. in: SOAS, 26/4/2001
- ^ a b Bunson, 38.
- ^ The episode was told by Theodoric the Great at a synod held in Rome in 501; Aspar refused, cryptically stating, "I fear I would launch an imperial tradition", (Croke, p. 150).
- ^ Croke, p. 150.
- ^ Herwig Wolfram, p. 32.
References
- Bunson, Matthew (1994). Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. New York: Facts on File Inc.
- Croke, Brian, "Dynasty and Ethnicity: Emperor Leo and the Eclipse of Aspar", Chiron 35 (2005), 147–203.
- McEvoy, Meaghan, "Becoming Roman?: the not-so-curious case of Aspar and the Ardaburii", Journal of Late Antiquity 9.2 (2016), 483–511.
- McEvoy, Meaghan, "Celibacy and survival in court politics in the fifth century AD", in S. Tougher (ed.), The Emperor in the Byzantine World (London, 2019), 115–134.
- Williams, Stephen, and Gerard Friell, The Rome That Did Not Fall, Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0-415-15403-0.
- ISBN 0-520-06983-8.
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