[gothic-l] The Eighteenth Gothic-Roman War 408-410 AD

[Bertil Haggman]

Andreas,

Am just sorry we cannot agree on this. What do you really
mean by the promises were not fulfilled? Wasn't Gaul
after all already lost? Would be interesting to learn
more about in which hands Gaul was at the time. If I remember
correctly the Vandals and Alans had passed through
Gaul on their way to Spain. An example of the total
chaos in the Roman empire is the fact that there are
a great number of competing emperors:

Marcus I
Gratianus II
Constantinus III
Constans II
Attalus
Maximus IV
Jovinus
Sebastianus
Heraclianus

Gothically

Bertil

Athaulf received neither Gaul nor a magisterium militum from
Honorius. He reached an understanding with him at the turn of
412/413 and seems to have been promised settlement in Gaul and
a supply of grains in exchange for fighting against the usurper
Iovinus, which he did and sent the heads of Iovinus and his brother
Sebastianus to Honorius. But according to Olympiodorus, here our
main contemporary source, the promises of Honorius were not
fulfilled and Athaulf did not return Galla Placidia to her brother.
Instead of that he married her. Attalus attended the nuptials, but
the bridegroom was Athaulf. He and Galla had a son named
Theodosius, who was born at the beginning of 415, but died already
before Athaulf was murdered in the summer of the same year.



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