Ruler · 395 – 457

Avitus

Lived 395 – 457; bishop, politician. Roman emperor in the West of Ancient Rome, 455 – 456; also in the line of Western Roman Empire.

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Lived: 395 – 457; 62 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: ending not on record; nothing on record

Roman emperor in the West

Ancient Rome · the 847th of 853 dated reigns · 753 BCE – 480 · read from the line of Western Roman Empire

843 before

Joannes423 – 425

Valentinian III425 – 455

Avitus455 – 456

3 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 455 – 456 · 1 year

Left it: ending not on recordnothing on record: no death date to read the end against

Also in the line of Western Roman Empire (7th of 13).

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