Majorian | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Majorian


00:02:07 1 Early life
00:07:15 2 Rise to the throne
00:10:10 3 Foreign affairs
00:10:19 3.1 Defence of Italy
00:12:21 3.2 Re-conquest of Gaul
00:14:56 3.3 Campaign in Hispania
00:18:22 4 Domestic policy
00:21:41 4.1 Fiscal policy and coinage
00:26:14 4.2 Natalist policies
00:28:01 4.3 Relationship with the senatorial aristocracy
00:30:05 4.4 Conservation of the monuments of Rome
00:31:49 5 Fall and death
00:33:48 6 Legacy
00:34:20 7 Notes
00:34:29 8 Sources
00:34:37 8.1 Primary sources
00:35:14 8.2 Secondary sources
00:36:35 8.3 Further reading
00:38:05 9 External links



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Flavius Julius Valerius Majorianus (c. AD 420 – August 7, 461), usually known simply as Majorian, was the Western Roman Emperor from 457 to 461.
A prominent general of the Late Roman army, Majorian deposed Emperor Avitus in 457 and succeeded him. Majorian was the last emperor to make a concerted effort to restore the Western Roman Empire with its own forces. Possessing little more than Italy, Dalmatia, and some territory in northern Gaul, Majorian campaigned rigorously for three years against the Empire's enemies.  His successors until the fall of the Empire, in 476/480, were actually instruments of their barbarian generals, or emperors chosen and controlled by the Eastern Roman court.
After defeating a Vandal attack on Italy, Majorian launched a campaign against the Visigothic Kingdom in southern Gaul. Defeating king Theodoric II at the Battle of Arelate, Majorian forced the Goths to abandon their possessions in Septimania and Hispania and return to federate status immediately. Majorian then attacked the Burgundian Kingdom, defeating them at the Siege of Lugdunum, expelling them from the Rhone valley and reducing them to federate status.
In 460, Majorian left Gaul to consolidate his hold on Hispania. His generals launched a campaign against the Suebic Kingdom in northwest Hispania, defeating them at the battles of Lucus Augusti and Scallabis and reducing them to federate status as well. His fleet for his planned campaign to recover Africa from the Vandals was destroyed due to treachery.
Majorian sought to reform the imperial administration in order to make it more efficient and just. The powerful general Ricimer deposed and killed Majorian, who had become unpopular with the senatorial aristocracy because of his reforms.
According to historian Edward Gibbon, Majorian "presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honour of the human species".