Germanus Justinus

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Germanus Justinus

Germanus Iustinus (died 551) was a General

General

A General officer is an Officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called general....
of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
and member of the Justinian Dynasty

Justinian Dynasty

The Justinian Dynasty is a family who ruled over the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 602. It originated with Justin I and ended with Maurice .* Justin I - ...
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The paternal nephew of Justinian I

Justinian I

Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
, and whose father was born ca 485, he became 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....
for Thracia ca 525, a Roman Patricius

Patricius

Patricius may refer to:People* Patricius, a leader of the War against Gallus, 4th-century Jewish revolt* Patricius, father of Saint Augustine of Hippo...
in 536 and a Diplomat, and was placed in charge of Imperial forces in the Gothic War

Gothic War (535–552)

See Gothic War for the war on the Danube.The Gothic War was a war fought in Italian Peninsula and the adjoining regions of Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica from 535 until 554 between the forces of the Eastern Roman Empire and the forces of the Ostrogothic Kingdom....
in 550.

Though he married ca 525 Passara, a lady of the noble family of the Anicii, a Roman family which had moved to Constantinople, who died ca 550, without issue, he was eventually married secondly in 550 to Matasuntha (ca 517 - aft.

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Germanus Iustinus (died 551) was a General

General

Byzantine Empire

Justinian Dynasty

The Justinian Dynasty is a family who ruled over the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 602. It originated with Justin I and ended with Maurice .* Justin I - ...
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The paternal nephew of Justinian I

Justinian I

Magister militum

Patricius

Gothic War (535–552)

Amalasuntha

Amalasuntha was a queen of the Ostrogoths from 516 to 534.A daughter of Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great, she secretly married a slave named Traguilla....
, and the widow of the defeated Gothic king, Witiges

Witiges

Witiges or Vitiges was King of the Ostrogoths in Italy from 536 to 540.He succeeded to the throne of Italy in the early stages of the Gothic War , as Belisarius had quickly captured Sicily the previous year and was currently in southern Italy at the head of the forces of Justinian I, the Byzantine Empire....
. She was made a Roman Patricia, but any schemes for a revived Romano-Gothic kingdom which may have been based on his personality were prevented by Germanus' early death.

"His widow, however, bore a posthumous child, also named Germanus or Germanus Postumus (550 - 605), of whom Jordanes

Jordanes

Jordanes , was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat , who turned his hand to history later in life.Though he also wrote Romana , a book about the history of Rome, his most known work is his Getica, written in Constantinople about AD 551 ....
speaks as blending the blood of the Anicii and the Amals, and furnishing a hope under the divine blessing of one day uniting their glories. This younger Germanus was made Caesar in 582 but did nothing in his life to realize these anticipations; but the somewhat pointed way in which his name and his mother's name are mentioned by Jordanes lends some probability to the view that he hoped for the child's succession to the Eastern Empire, and the final reconciliation of the Goths and Romans in the person of a Gotho-Roman emperor." (Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 "Jordanes"). He married ca 582 Charito (b. ca 560), a daughter of Tiberius II Constantine

Tiberius II Constantine

Flavius Tiberius Constantinus Augustus or Tiberius II Constantine, known in Greek as Tiberios Konstantinos was a Byzantine emperor of the Justinian Dynasty....
and wife Ino Anastasia

Ino Anastasia

Ino, renamed Aelia gens Anastasia was the Empress consort of Tiberius II Constantine of the Byzantine Empire....
, and had a daughter ca 585, who married Heraclius

Heraclius

Flavius Heraclius was a Byzantine Emperor, who ruled the Byzantine Empire for over thirty years, from October 5, 610 to February 11, 641. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his Heraclius the Elder, the viceregal Exarchate of Africa, successfully led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas....
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