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Aegidius (unknown - 464 or 465) was a Gallo-Roman promoted as magister militum
Magister militum

Magister militum was a top-level military command used in the later Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine I . Used alone, the term referred to the senior military officer of the Empire....
 in Gaul
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 under Aėtius
Flavius Aėtius

Flavius A?tius or simply A?tius, , dux et patricius, was a Roman Empire general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. He was an able military commander and the most influential man of the Western Roman Empire for two decades ....
 around 450. He was an ardent supporter of Majorian
Majorian

Julius Valerius Maiorianus , commonly known as Majorian, was Western Roman Emperor .He had distinguished himself as a general by victories over the Franks and Alamanni, and six months after the deposition of Avitus he was declared emperor by the regent Ricimer, which created problems with Emperor Leo I in Constantinople who declared...
, whom he helped to gain power. When Majorian lost ground against Ricimer
Ricimer

Ricimer was a Germanic general who was master of the Western Roman Empire during part of the fifth century.Ricimer was an Arianism Christian, the son of a prince of the Suebi....
 in the chaos of Gaul
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 in the middle of the fifth century he rebelled and created a Roman rump state that became to be known as the Domain of Soissons
Domain of Soissons

In the Late Antiquity period, two states in the area of modern-day northwest France were termed the Domain of Soissons. This area is often incorrectly called the Kingdom of Soissons or the Kingdom of Syagrius....
.

Aegidius allied himself with Childeric I
Childeric I

File:CHILDERICI REGIS.jpgChilderic I was the Merovingian king of the Salian Franks from 457 until his death, and the father of Clovis I.He succeeded his father Merovech as king, traditionally in 457 or 458....
, Merovingian king of the Salian Franks
Salian Franks

File:Seal_of_Childeric_I_Tournai tomb.jpgThe Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the early Franks who originally had been living north of the limes in the coastal area above the Rhine River in the northern Netherlands, where today there still is a region called Salland....
 of Tournai.






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Aegidius (unknown - 464 or 465) was a Gallo-Roman promoted as magister militum
Magister militum

Magister militum was a top-level military command used in the later Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine I . Used alone, the term referred to the senior military officer of the Empire....
 in Gaul
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 under Aėtius
Flavius Aėtius

Flavius A?tius or simply A?tius, , dux et patricius, was a Roman Empire general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. He was an able military commander and the most influential man of the Western Roman Empire for two decades ....
 around 450. He was an ardent supporter of Majorian
Majorian

Julius Valerius Maiorianus , commonly known as Majorian, was Western Roman Emperor .He had distinguished himself as a general by victories over the Franks and Alamanni, and six months after the deposition of Avitus he was declared emperor by the regent Ricimer, which created problems with Emperor Leo I in Constantinople who declared...
, whom he helped to gain power. When Majorian lost ground against Ricimer
Ricimer

Ricimer was a Germanic general who was master of the Western Roman Empire during part of the fifth century.Ricimer was an Arianism Christian, the son of a prince of the Suebi....
 in the chaos of Gaul
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 in the middle of the fifth century he rebelled and created a Roman rump state that became to be known as the Domain of Soissons
Domain of Soissons

In the Late Antiquity period, two states in the area of modern-day northwest France were termed the Domain of Soissons. This area is often incorrectly called the Kingdom of Soissons or the Kingdom of Syagrius....
.

Aegidius allied himself with Childeric I
Childeric I

File:CHILDERICI REGIS.jpgChilderic I was the Merovingian king of the Salian Franks from 457 until his death, and the father of Clovis I.He succeeded his father Merovech as king, traditionally in 457 or 458....
, Merovingian king of the Salian Franks
Salian Franks

File:Seal_of_Childeric_I_Tournai tomb.jpgThe Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the early Franks who originally had been living north of the limes in the coastal area above the Rhine River in the northern Netherlands, where today there still is a region called Salland....
 of Tournai. According to Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours

Saint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman History and Bishops of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather....
, Aegidius even succeeded the banished Childeric in the latter's kingdom for a while, but Childeric would later return.

The death of Aegidius occurred under unclear circumstances at the Loire
Loire

Loire is an departments of France in the east-central part of France occupying the River Loire's upper reaches....
 in 464 or 465, either by poison or in ambush. He was succeeded first by the Comes
Comes

Comes is the Latin word for companion, either individually or as a member of a collective known as comitatus , especially the suite of a magnate, in some cases large and/or formal enough to have a specific name, such as a cohors amicorum. The word comes derives from com- "with" + ire "go."...
 Paulus, who was killed shortly afterwards by Childeric, and then by his son Syagrius
Syagrius

Syagrius was the son of Aegidius, the last Roman magister militum per Gaul. Syagrius preserved his father's rump state between the Somme and the Loire around Domain of Soissons after the collapse of central rule in the Western Empire, the so-called "Kingdom" of Syagrius, as Gregory of Tours understood it, applying the Frankish term for...
.

There is a tradition, dating from Gildas
Gildas

Saint Gildas was a 6th century Britons cleric. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christianity church in the British Isles during the 6th century....
, that the Britons, having been deprived of Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 military protection after 410, wrote
Groans of the Britons

The Groans of the Britons is the name of the final appeal made by the post-Roman Romano-British population of Sub-Roman Britain for assistance against foreign invasion....
 to a "Roman commander Agitus, thrice consul", who may be Aegidius, or, more probably, Aėtius
Flavius Aėtius

Flavius A?tius or simply A?tius, , dux et patricius, was a Roman Empire general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. He was an able military commander and the most influential man of the Western Roman Empire for two decades ....
.