The Julio-Claudian dynasty also recruited northern Germanic warriors, particularly men of the Batavi, as personal bodyguards to the Roman emperor, forming the so-called Numerus Batavorum. After the end of the dynasty in 68 CE with the suicide of the emperor Nero, the Germanic bodyguard ("custodes corporis") were dissolved by Galba in the same year because he suspected they were loyal to the old dynasty. The decision caused deep offense to the Batavi, and contributed to the outbreak of the Revolt of the Batavi in the following year which united "Germani" and Gauls, all connected to Rome but living both within the empire and outside it, over the Rhine. Their indirect successors were the "Equites singulares Augusti" which were, likewise, mainly recruited from the Germani. They were apparently so similar to the Julio-Claudians' earlier German Bodyguard that they were given the same nickname, the "Batavi". Gaius Julius Civilis, a Roman military officer of Batavian origin, orchestrated the Revolt. The revolt lasted nearly a year and was ultimately unsuccessful.