Bonifacius, -432

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الاسم الرئيس (باللاتينية)
Bonifacius, -432
صِيَغ اسمية أخرى
Boniface, Count of Africa, -432
Bonifatius, comes Africae, -432
تاريخ الوفاة
0432
بلدان ذات صلة
Rome
مجال النشاط
Rome--History, Military
Rome--History--Empire, 284-476
africa roman province administration
مهنة
Generals
النوع الاجتماعي
male
MARC
MARC

أرقام تعريفية أخرى

VIAF: 309849435
Wikidata: Q463954
Library of congress: no2014093371
TAU10: 000587708
مصادر المعلومات
  • The last of the Romans, 2014:title page (Bonifatius, warlord and comes Africae)
  • The prosopography of the later Roman Empire, 2. A.D. 395-527, 1980, viewed online July 14, 2014:pp. 237-238 (Bonifatius; MVM [magister utriusque militiae] (West); patricius; said to be a native of Thrace; he was at Marseilles when Athaulfus attacked it in late 413, wounded the Visigothic king; commanded a unit of foederati in Africa with success against the Moorish tribes; comes Africae 423/424-425; remained loyal to Placidia when she was exiled in 423; comes domesticorum et Africae 425-427, 429-432, perhaps made comes domesticorum in 425 as reward for his loyalty, but instructed to remain in Africa; his title from 429 to 432 is not recorded, but he was not yet magister militum; defeated by Vandals in 430, 432; recalled to Italy in 432, office of MVM (West) conferred on him, possibly made patricius at the same time; later in 432 he encountered his rival Aetius in battle near Rimini and defeated him, but was mortally wounded, died soon after)
  • Oxford Reference website, citing Oxford classical dictionary, 4th ed., 2012, viewed July 14, 2014(Bonifacius (or Bonifatius), Roman general, d. AD 432)
  • Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias website, Hofmann J. Lexicon universale, viewed July 14, 2014(Bonifacius; Africae Comes [text in Latin])
  • Aetius: Attila's nemesis, 2012, viewed online July 14, 2014:Select personalities, and elsewhere (Boniface; a native of Thrace, he rose to become Count of Africa in 422)