Claudius Silvanus

Claudius Silvanus (- September 7th 355) was a Roman general of franque ascent , which usurped the capacity in Gaulle for one month in 355.

According to the historian Ammien Marcellin, Silvanus was wire of Bonitus, frank chief who served Constantin Ier against Licinius. It is thus about a Germanic emigrant of second generation.

The historian Eutrope briefly quotes his revolt as a Gaulle between the fall of Magnence and the nomination of Julien like César, on less than thirty days.

At the time of the usurpation of Magnence, it gives up this last and is joined the emperor legitimates Constance II.

As Master of the infantry ( magister peditum ), Silvanus is sent as a Gaulle to restore the order disturbed by the cruel raids. Jalousé by his/her Arbetio colleague, Master of the cavalry, it is victim of a cabal of officers who manufacture signed false documents of Silvainus inviting to a plot to usurp the imperial throne, and to Milan with the emperor Constance II present them. After various machinations, the forgers are confused, but Silvanus, thrown into a panic and badly informed, résoud with the usurpation with Cologne. A small delegation left Milan ordered by Ursicin and including/understanding Ammien Marcellin goes to Cologne, fact seeming to pay homage to Silvanus and causes her assassination by bribing some soldiers. Silvanus is massacred in the Christian vault where it had taken refuge.

César Julien which takes again shortly after the administration of Gaulle affirms in the panégerique one that it dedicated to the emperor that this one saved the close relations and the young person wire of Sylvanus. Nevertheless, Ammien Marcellin brings back the setting to the torture of the porter of Silvanus, which resisted and cleared Silvanus of any plot it, and the execution of several important characters.

The modern historians see in this tragedy episode an index of the tensions between the Western soldiers and the civil civils servant of the imperial court in Milan.

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