Mallobaudes was a 4th-century
FrankishThe Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic tribal confederation first attested in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul...
king, who also held the Roman title of
comes domesticorum.
In 354 he was a
tribunus armaturarum in the Roman army in Gaul, where he served under
SilvanusClaudius Silvanus was a Roman general of Frankish descent, usurper in Gaul against Emperor Constantius II for 28 days in 355.- Origin and career :...
who usurped power in 355. Malobaudes tried unsuccessfully to intervene on his behalf. Appointed by Gratian
comes domesticorum, he was second in command of the army in Gaul in 378, when he defeated the Alemannic tribes under King Priarius at Argentorate.
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Mallobaudes was a 4th-century
FrankishThe Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic tribal confederation first attested in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul...
king, who also held the Roman title of
comes domesticorum.
In 354 he was a
tribunus armaturarum in the Roman army in Gaul, where he served under
SilvanusClaudius Silvanus was a Roman general of Frankish descent, usurper in Gaul against Emperor Constantius II for 28 days in 355.- Origin and career :...
who usurped power in 355. Malobaudes tried unsuccessfully to intervene on his behalf. Appointed by Gratian
comes domesticorum, he was second in command of the army in Gaul in 378, when he defeated the Alemannic tribes under King Priarius at Argentorate. In 380 he killed
MacrianMacrian or Makrian was the king of the Bucinobantes, an Alemannic tribe, in the late fourth century and the brother of Hariobaud. Macrian tried to confederate all the north Germanic and Alemannic tribes together against Rome....
, king of the
BucinobantesThe Bucinobantes were an Alemannic tribe in the region of the modern city of Mainz on the river Main.The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus wrote that Caesar Julian crossed the river Rhine near Main in 359 for negotiations with Macrian, the chieftain of the Bucinobantes, and with other Alamannic...
and Roman ally, who had invaded Frankish territory.
Sources
- Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, University of California Press 1997, ISBN 0520085116, pp.65ff.
- Thomas F. X. Noble, From Roman Provinces To Medieval Kingdoms, Routledge 2006, ISBN 0415327415, pp.115ff.