year is finished, and has served six mesecitos blog, a record considering that during much of that time has been busy with the Germanic invasions, with how easy it would been writing about air traffic controllers and all of Spain is passing over here, but what the hell! Toode Here are the entries in this series of entries:
Muhammad
and Charlemagne - on the date of commencement of the Middle Ages
The fall of Rome and the end of civilization Another entry
more about the fall of Rome
Germanic peoples
The Age of Invasions : I and II
A true epic saga, yes sir. And today, as a gift, an unreleased bonus track. An unusual biography of someone of that era.
Normally I would not support the biographies of my misgivings to exalt "great characters" of the past, something that often has to highlight misleading as to virtues and that's not very scientific to say. But I found it very interesting (and film), and I have not been contained.
and Charlemagne - on the date of commencement of the Middle Ages
The fall of Rome and the end of civilization Another entry
more about the fall of Rome
Germanic peoples
The Age of Invasions : I and II
A true epic saga, yes sir. And today, as a gift, an unreleased bonus track. An unusual biography of someone of that era.
Normally I would not support the biographies of my misgivings to exalt "great characters" of the past, something that often has to highlight misleading as to virtues and that's not very scientific to say. But I found it very interesting (and film), and I have not been contained.
Flavius \u200b\u200bStilicho, better known as Stilicho, was born in 359, son of a Vandal and a Roman military, was educated in the Roman and knew from a young Roman upper class.
He joined the army (Rome), where he rose to the success of a diplomatic mission to Persia earned him a promotion to general in 384, and as general defended the Empire from the attacks of the Goths for 20 years .
was working so well that the Emperor Theodosius married his adopted niece Flavia Serena Stilicho. The union produced a son, Eucherius.
After the assassination of Western Emperor Valentinian II (392), Stilicho accompanied the army would lead to victory Theodosius in the Battle of the Frigid . One of his comrades during the campaign was the Goth Alaric, who later became his opponent on the battlefield. Stilicho distinguished himself in battle, and Theodosius saw him as a man worthy of being responsible for the future security of the empire. The Last Emperor of a united Rome appointed him as tutor to his son Honorius. To ensure its influence on the new young emperor, Stilicho married his daughter to Honorius, which was a real scandal among the nobility and courtiers, who did not accept the half blood daughter of a barbarian, to marry the emperor West.
His first major challenge, now as magister militum emerged in 395 when Alaric broke his treaty with Rome and had to cope. For the event, the victorious army in the fridge, a combination of Eastern and Western forces. However, in the East, the emperor Arcadius was in the hands of an old enemy Stilicho, the Praetorian Prefect Rufinus ordered the return of troops to Constantinople, leaving the army too weak to prosecute Alaric. Stilicho was frustrated their intentions. Poetically, they Rufino troops killed upon their return.
Stilicho Alaric get defeat two years later in Macedonia (397), although Alaric himself managed to escape. That same year he suppressed the revolt of Gildo in Africa. In 401, he led a long campaign against their "relatives", the Vandals, and other hordes of barbarians. One more year and returned to defeat Alaric in Pollentia (402) and Verona (403).
In 405 came the turn of the Swabians, who were defeated, but the Rhine was almost without defenses allowing the invasion the following year. The 406 Radagaiso faced, sites with strong trenches until the defeat hunger. However, that same year saw the invasion of the Swabians, Vandals, Alans and a Rhine almost defenseless from the previous year's campaign, the rest is history ...
In summary, Stilicho was a competent soldier who had earned the confidence of the Emperor Theodosius, had married his niece, Serena, who became really headed West on behalf of the young Honorius (who married the daughter of Stilicho) won the consulship (the judiciary's most prestigious empire) twice, and received Senate special honor a silver statue gold in the forum.
But its origins were never forgotten.
His ancestry and faith barbarian Arian led to rejection in the eyes of imperial advisers, who spread the rumor of having planned the assassination of Rufinus in cahoots with his old ally Alaric, who had "invited" to the barbarians to invade Gaul and planned to place his son on the throne. Honorius despite having been educated by Stilicho, finally yielding to pressure from his advisors, declaring him public enemy.
The 408 August 22 was executed after taking off the insignia of magister militum. Eucherius his son was killed in Rome shortly after.
When news broke in the cities of northern Italy was kindled animosity against the barbarians, resulting in a slaughter of the helpless wives and children the Germans foederati who were serving in the military. Knowing this, soldiers who had lost their families deserted en masse (estimates were about 30,000), and with groups of runaway slaves joined the troops of Alaric. When two years later, Alaric entered Rome, many of these men participated in the looting of the city, which have seen apparently did not have to be pretty.
I knew this man as I read Ward-Perkins and I found a good summary of everything that had been laying around here, an example of how the barbarians could be integrated into Roman society, but at the same time, the integration leaves much to be desired and clumsy management policy was the emergence Roman of the Germans.
He joined the army (Rome), where he rose to the success of a diplomatic mission to Persia earned him a promotion to general in 384, and as general defended the Empire from the attacks of the Goths for 20 years .
was working so well that the Emperor Theodosius married his adopted niece Flavia Serena Stilicho. The union produced a son, Eucherius.
After the assassination of Western Emperor Valentinian II (392), Stilicho accompanied the army would lead to victory Theodosius in the Battle of the Frigid . One of his comrades during the campaign was the Goth Alaric, who later became his opponent on the battlefield. Stilicho distinguished himself in battle, and Theodosius saw him as a man worthy of being responsible for the future security of the empire. The Last Emperor of a united Rome appointed him as tutor to his son Honorius. To ensure its influence on the new young emperor, Stilicho married his daughter to Honorius, which was a real scandal among the nobility and courtiers, who did not accept the half blood daughter of a barbarian, to marry the emperor West.
His first major challenge, now as magister militum emerged in 395 when Alaric broke his treaty with Rome and had to cope. For the event, the victorious army in the fridge, a combination of Eastern and Western forces. However, in the East, the emperor Arcadius was in the hands of an old enemy Stilicho, the Praetorian Prefect Rufinus ordered the return of troops to Constantinople, leaving the army too weak to prosecute Alaric. Stilicho was frustrated their intentions. Poetically, they Rufino troops killed upon their return.
Stilicho Alaric get defeat two years later in Macedonia (397), although Alaric himself managed to escape. That same year he suppressed the revolt of Gildo in Africa. In 401, he led a long campaign against their "relatives", the Vandals, and other hordes of barbarians. One more year and returned to defeat Alaric in Pollentia (402) and Verona (403).
In 405 came the turn of the Swabians, who were defeated, but the Rhine was almost without defenses allowing the invasion the following year. The 406 Radagaiso faced, sites with strong trenches until the defeat hunger. However, that same year saw the invasion of the Swabians, Vandals, Alans and a Rhine almost defenseless from the previous year's campaign, the rest is history ...
In summary, Stilicho was a competent soldier who had earned the confidence of the Emperor Theodosius, had married his niece, Serena, who became really headed West on behalf of the young Honorius (who married the daughter of Stilicho) won the consulship (the judiciary's most prestigious empire) twice, and received Senate special honor a silver statue gold in the forum.
But its origins were never forgotten.
His ancestry and faith barbarian Arian led to rejection in the eyes of imperial advisers, who spread the rumor of having planned the assassination of Rufinus in cahoots with his old ally Alaric, who had "invited" to the barbarians to invade Gaul and planned to place his son on the throne. Honorius despite having been educated by Stilicho, finally yielding to pressure from his advisors, declaring him public enemy.
The 408 August 22 was executed after taking off the insignia of magister militum. Eucherius his son was killed in Rome shortly after.
When news broke in the cities of northern Italy was kindled animosity against the barbarians, resulting in a slaughter of the helpless wives and children the Germans foederati who were serving in the military. Knowing this, soldiers who had lost their families deserted en masse (estimates were about 30,000), and with groups of runaway slaves joined the troops of Alaric. When two years later, Alaric entered Rome, many of these men participated in the looting of the city, which have seen apparently did not have to be pretty.
I knew this man as I read Ward-Perkins and I found a good summary of everything that had been laying around here, an example of how the barbarians could be integrated into Roman society, but at the same time, the integration leaves much to be desired and clumsy management policy was the emergence Roman of the Germans.
