Avitus
c. 385 CE–c. 456 CE · Clermont-Ferrand
Avitus (c. 395–456/457) was a Gallo-Roman aristocrat from Clermont (Roman Arvernis, modern Clermont-Ferrand) who was raised to the Western Roman throne in July 455 with the backing of the Visigothic king Theodoric II. After little more than a year he was defeated and deposed by the general Ricimer at the Battle of Placentia in October 456 and forced to take up the bishopric of Placentia. He died shortly afterward, in late 456 or early 457.
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Clermont (modern Clermont-Ferrand), a city in the Auvergne, central France. Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095; Blaise Pascal was born in the city in 1623.
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