Rome's Gothic Wars_ From the Third Century to Alaric - Michael Kulikowski [101]
Constantius Ⅱ
emperor 337–361. Middle son of Constantine, who outlived his brothers Constantinus and Constans, fighting many wars on the middle Danube, while allowing the Tervingi to grow quite powerful.
Constantius Ⅲ
emperor 419–421, father of Valentinian Ⅲ. The most successful general of Honorius after 408, he orchestrated the Gothic settlement in Aquitania in 418. He became co-emperor with Honorius after marrying Galla Placidia.
Crispus
eldest son of Constantine, left to supervise the West after 324, but executed in obscure circumstances in 326.
Crocus
Alamannic king and Roman general instrumental in the proclamation of Constantine Ⅰ at York in 306.
Decebalus
Dacian king 85–106, defeated by Trajan in his second Dacian war, after which the province of Dacia was created.
Decius
emperor 249–251, killed in battle at Abrittus by the Goths of Cniva.
Diocletian
emperor 284–305. With Maximian as co-emperor from 285, he formed the tetrarchy in 293 by appointing Constantius and Galerius as his caesars, thereby ending the long period of political crisis in the third century and stabilizing the empire. The Gothic Tervingi are first mentioned during his reign.
Dulcilla
daughter of the fourth-century Gothic queen Gaatha, she deposited relics of many Gothic martyrs at Cyzicus in Asia Minor.
Eriulf
Gothic general and rival of Fravitta, who killed him at a banquet hosted by Theodosius.
Ermanaric
Gothic king of the Greuthungi in the decade or more prior to 376, he killed himself after several defeats by the Huns. His story is the subject of much legendary embellishment by the sixth-century author Jordanes.
Eucherius
son of Stilicho and Serena, murdered after the fall of his father’s regime in 408.
Eudoxia
wife of Arcadius and enemy of Eutropius.
Eugenius
usurper in the West, 392–394. A grammarian chosen by Arbogast to be a figurehead emperor for his rebellion, he was executed after defeat at the battle of the Frigidus in 394.
Eusebius of Nicomedia
bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia until his death c. 342, he was a homoean sympathiser of Arius and consecrated Ulfila.
Eusebius of Samosata
fourth-century bishop of Samosata (c. 360–c. 380) exiled in Thrace during the Gothic revolt and the recipient of an important letter from Basil of Caesarea attesting to Gothic ravages in that province.
Eutropius
eunuch grand chamberlain of Arcadius and chief official at the eastern court from the death of Rufinus in 395 until the coup of Gainas in 400.
Farnobius
Gothic noble defeated in Thrace by Frigeridus in 377, after which his followers were settled as farmers in Italy.
Fravitta
Gothic general in Roman service and rival of Eriulf whom he killed in the 380s. He suppressed Gainas’ revolt in 400.
Frigeridus
general of Gratian, sent to the Balkans with Richomeres in 377 to assist the generals of Valens against the Goths.
Fritigern
Gothic leader of the Tervingi, and with Alavivus one of two chieftains primarily responsible for the Danube crossing of 376. At Marcianople in 377, Fritigern took overall military command of Gothic and other rebels in the Balkans, eventually winning the battle of Adrianople in 378.
Gaatha
fourth-century Gothic queen, interested in preserving the memory of Christian martyrs of Athanaric’s persecution of the 370s.
Gainas
Gothic general in Roman service who led the eastern army back to Constantinople in 395, where he organized the murder of Rufinus. Sent to suppress the revolt of Tribigild in 399, he himself rebelled against the government in 400, but was killed trying to flee the empire after being defeated by Fravitta.
Galerius
emperor 293–311 (caesar 293–305; augustus 305–311), he was a general of Diocletian and Maximian made caesar along with Constantius Ⅰ in 293, when the tetrarchy was created. He disrupted the planned succession of Constantine Ⅰ and Maxentius in 305, thereby precipitating half a decade of civil war.
Galla Placidia
c. 390–450, imperial princess, daughter of Theodosius Ⅰ, sister