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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About Clermont-Ferrand
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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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Avitus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Theon of Alexandria· 335 CE–
- Eunapius· 347 CE–414 CE
- Theodosius I· 347 CE–395 CE
- Plutarch of Athens· 350 CE–432 CE
- Hypatia of Alexandria· 355 CE–415 CE
- Constantius III· 360 CE–421 CE
- Claudian· 370 CE–404 CE
- Valentinian II· 371 CE–392 CE
- Hephaestion of Thebes· 380 CE–
- Honorius· 384 CE–423 CE
- Macrobius· 385 CE–430 CE
- Syrianus· 390 CE–437 CE
- Petronius Maximus· 397 CE–455 CE
- Proclus the Grammarian· 410 CE–
- Proclus· 412 CE–485 CE
- Nonnus of Panopolis· 415 CE–475 CE
- Valentinian III· 419 CE–455 CE
- Majorian· 420 CE–461 CE
- Libius Severus· 420 CE–465 CE
- Anthemius· 420 CE–472 CE
- Glycerius· 420 CE–480 CE
- Olybrius· 430 CE–472 CE
- Julius Nepos· 430 CE–480 CE
- Marinus· 440 CE–500 CE
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