441

This page relates to the year 441 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Be: Failure of a joint naval forwarding of the emperors of the East and Occident against the Vandals in Sicily.
November 8th: Council of Orange.

the troops of the emperor Théodose II push back Persians in Arménie.
Return of Aetius in Italy.
Of the Saxon mercenaries then angles and Jutes is established in the United Kingdom with the call of the Celtic chief Vortigen to fight against the Scots and the Pictes (441 - 442).

Bleda occupies Sirmium and takes along its inhabitants in captivity, then walk towards north. The Pannonia Second master key under hunnic domination.
Attila, which started talks with Senator, the representative of the Byzantine Empire, to negotiate its non-intervention, ends up rejoining his/her brother Bleda. It crosses the low Danube, takes Ratiaria (Arčar) and joined the troops of Bleda to besiege and take Naissus (Niš), Serdica (Sofia), then in Thrace Philippopolis (Plovdiv) and Arcadiopolis. In the absence of the imperial army, their attack is pushed back only in Hadrianopolis (Edirne) and Heracleia (Iregli), whereas they threaten Constantinople.

the bishop of Sirmium succeeds in making pass during the seat of the city the holy crockery of the cathedral through the hunnic lines with the complicity of Constantius, secretary of Bleda originating in the Gaulle. This one take them along to Rome at the time of an official trip and the met guarantees some near the Silvanus banker. It will be impaled later by Bleda for treason. Attila will claim his “treasure” during the negotiations with the Western Empire towards 450.
the minister of Bleda of graeco-latin origin Onégèse (Hunigis) made build thermal baths close to its palate after the catch of Sirmium.

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