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Herennius Etruscus

Herennius Etruscus

c. 227 CE–c. 251 CE · Sremska Mitrovica

Herennius Etruscus (Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius), likely born near Sirmium in Pannonia around the 220s, was the eldest son of the emperor Decius; he was raised to Caesar in 250 and to Augustus (co-emperor) in May 251. He reigned jointly with his father for only a matter of weeks before both were killed at the Battle of Abritus (near modern Razgrad, Bulgaria) in 251 — reportedly struck by an arrow early in the fighting — making them the first Roman emperors to die in battle against a foreign enemy. His brief tenure overlapped his father's reign, during which the empire-wide Decian persecution of Christians (249-251) was carried out under Decius's edict, though that persecution is associated with his father rather than with Herennius.

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