Person:Flavius Stilicho (9)

General Flavius Stilicho
b.Abt 359 Germany
d.22 Aug 408 Ravenna,Lat,,
Facts and Events
Name General Flavius Stilicho
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 359 Germany
Marriage 384 to Serena Van Spanje
Death? 22 Aug 408 Ravenna,Lat,,
Reference Number? Q203636?


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Flavius Stilicho (; c. 359 – 22 August 408) was a military commander in the Roman army who, for a time, became the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire. He was of Vandal origins and married to Serena, the niece of emperor Theodosius I. He became guardian for the underage Honorius. After nine years of struggle against barbarian and Roman enemies, political and military disasters finally allowed his enemies in the court of Honorius to remove him from power. His fall culminated in his arrest and execution in 408.

Stilicho was born in Germany the son of a Vandal father and a Roman mother. Despite his father's origins there is little to suggest that Stilicho considered himself anything other than a Roman, and he was probably not Arian like many of Germanic Christians and probably Nicene Orthodox because of his high rank within the empire.

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References
  1. Stilicho, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.