Ruler · 396 – 455

Petronius Maximus

Lived 396 – 455; politician. Roman emperor in the West of Ancient Rome, 455; also in the line of Western Roman Empire.

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Lived: 396 – 455; 59 years
Lines: 2; states
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

Roman emperor in the West

Ancient Rome · the 846th of 853 dated reigns · 753 BCE – 480 · read from the line of Western Roman Empire

842 before

Theodosius II402 – 450

Joannes423 – 425

Valentinian III425 – 455

Petronius Maximus455

Avitus455 – 456

Majorian457 – 461

Anthemius467 – 472

4 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 · under a year

Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

Maximus failed to obtain troops from the Visigoths and he fled as the Vandals arrived, became detached from his retinue and bodyguard in the confusion, and was killed by fellow Romans.

Also in the line of Western Roman Empire (6th of 13).

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