Ruler · 420 – 461

Majorian

Lived 420 – 461; ruler. Roman emperor in the West of Ancient Rome, 457 – 461; also in the line of Western Roman Empire.

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Lived: 420 – 461; 41 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

Roman emperor in the West

Ancient Rome · the 842nd of 845 dated reigns · 753 BCE – 480 · read from the line of Western Roman Empire

838 before

Flavius Victor384 – 388

Honorius395 – 423

Theodosius II402 – 450

Majorian457 – 461

Anthemius467 – 472

Julius Nepos474 – 480

Romulus Augustulus475 – 476

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 457 – 461 · 4 years

Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: executed

In 461, he was murdered at Dertona in a conspiracy, and his successors until the fall of the Empire in 476 were puppets either of barbarian generals or the Eastern Roman court.

Also in the line of Western Roman Empire (2nd of 5).

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