Ricimer

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Ricimer would not be a king, but he adopted as a settled policy the expedient or the insulting jest of Alaric.

What Theodoric the Visigoth had given at a distance in Gaul, Ricimer the Sueve, the master general of the Italian armies of the empire, claimed to give on the spot at Rome.

He deposed Avitus and probably murdered him.

Under his direction, the Senate chose Majorian.

Majorian was too able, too public-spirited, perhaps too independent for the barbarian patrician.

Majorian, at a moment of ill fortune, was deposed and got rid of.

Ricimer's next nominee, Severus, 457 to 461, seems to have been too feeble and incapable for his impatient master.

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Ricimer would not be a king, but he adopted as a settled policy the expedient or the insulting jest of Alaric.

What Theodoric the Visigoth had given at a distance in Gaul, Ricimer the Suave, the master general of the Italian armies of the empire, claimed to give on the spot at Rome.

He deposed Avitus and probably murdered him.

Under his direction the Senate chose Majorian.

Majorian was too able, too public-spirited, perhaps too independent for the barbarian patrician.

Majorian, at a moment of ill fortune, was deposed and got rid of.

Ricimer's next nominee, Severus, 457-461, seems to have been too feeble and incapable for his impatient master.

Avitus, chosen in Gaul under the influence of the West Gothic king of Toulouse, Theodoric II, was accepted for a time as the Western emperor by the Roman Senate and by the court of Constantinople.

But another barbarian, Ricimer the Sueve, ambitious, successful, and popular, had succeeded to the command of the federated foreign bands which formed the strength of the imperial army in Italy.

Ricimer would not be a king, but he adopted as a settled policy the expedient or the insulting jest of Alaric.

What Theodoric the Visigoth had given at a distance in Gaul, Ricimer the Sueve, the master general of the Italian armies of the empire, claimed to give on the spot at Rome.

He deposed Avitus and probably murdered him.

Under his direction the Senate chose Majorian.

Majorian was too able, too public-spirited, perhaps too independent for the barbarian patrician.

Majorian, at a moment of ill-fortune, was deposed and got rid of.

In the other Teutonic kingdoms which had come into existence in the fifth century, though in none of them was seen the statesmanship and large attempts of Theodoric, the same tendency was at work toward distinctness and consolidation.

Gundobad, 491-516, the Burgundian refugee in Ricimer's camp, whom a strange chance had once invested with the power of giving an emperor to the West, had, after bloody domestic quarrels, returned to introduce some kind of law and order in his kingdom on the Rhone and Somme.

The Vandal kingdom in Africa from 429 to 534, founded and so long sustained by the crafty and relentless policy of Gaiseric, still retained the impress given to it by its founder, in being the most oppressive to the Roman population of all the barbarian kingdoms and by being least influenced by their civilization.

The kingdom of the western Goths in Gaul from 412 to 507, the people of Alaric, settled in Spain and Aquitaine with Toulouse and Bordeaux for their capitals, had grown in power and extent during the last disasters of the empire.

In times of strife, the bishops were mediators, ambassadors, peacemakers.

In times of imminent danger, men looked to them to face the peril, to intercede for the doomed, to cross with no protection but their sacred character the path of the destroyer.

With the terrible and inflexible barbarians, who were deaf to Roman envoys and contemptuous of Roman soldiers, with Ricimer, with Alaric, with Attila, with Gaiseric, the last word, the only word listened to, was that of a fearless bishop, like Pope Leo, asking nothing for himself but in the name of the Most High that his people should be spared.

Representatives not of religion only in the claims of God, but of moral order, of the rights of conscience and the sympathies of men, of the bonds and authority of human society, the Christian bishops were, when the barbarians became settlers in the empire, the only trusted guides of life.

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Ricimer would not be a king, but he adopted as a settled policy the expedient or the insulting jest of Alaric.

What Theodoric the Visigoth had given at a distance in Gaul, Ricimer the Suave, the master general of the Italian armies of the empire, claimed to give on the spot at Rome.

He deposed Avitus and probably murdered him.

Under his direction the Senate chose Majorian.

Majorian was too able, too public-spirited, perhaps too independent for the barbarian patrician.

Majorian, at a moment of ill fortune, was deposed and got rid of.

Ricimer's next nominee, Severus, 457-461, seems to have been too feeble and incapable for his impatient master.