Flavius Aetius
Gaudentius served under the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I against the usurper Eugenius. Later, when his son Flavius Aetius was born in 396, Gaudentius served as "magister equitum", or Master of Cavalry, under the Emperor Honorius. In 399, he served as the "Comes Africae". Presumably he was Christian, as Augustine of Hippo claimed that he destroyed pagan temples in Carthage. Gaudentius died in a military uprising in Gaul before 425.