Emperors until 476 AD

Question 1

Which Emperor ruled in the East from 450 to 457 AD?

Answer 1

Martian.

Question 2

Which Emperor ruled in the East from 457 to 475 AD?

Answer 2

Leo I.

Question 3

Which Emperor ruled in the East from 473 to 474 AD?

Answer 3

Leo II.

Question 4

Which Emperor ruled in the East from 474 to 491 AD?

Answer 4

Zeno.

Question 5

Which Emperor ruled in the East from 527 to 565 AD?

Answer 5

Justinian.

Question 6

Which grandson of the Visigothic Wallia, was known as an “emperor maker” because he made so many men emperors of Rome?

Answer 6

Ricimer.

Question 7

What man was named magister utriusque militiae under Avitus?

Answer 7

Ricimer.

Question 8

What man succeeded Ricimer as “Emperor Maker” in 472 AD?

Answer 8

Gundobad.

Question 9

In what year did the Burgundian nephew of Ricimer succeeded him?

Answer 9

472 AD.

Question 10

Who was the Burgudnian nephew of Ricimer?

Answer 10

Gundobad.

Question 11

What man only ruled for 70 days in the year of 455 AD?

Answer 11

Petronius Maximus.

Question 12

How did Petronius Maximus die?

Answer 12

He was assailed by a shower of stones, one hit him in the temple and he died, his body was beaten and thrown in the Tiber.

Question 13

What woman did Petronius Maximus take as his wife after his ascension to the throne?

Answer 13

Licinia Eudoxia.

Question 14

What man did Licinia Eudoxia appeal to when Petronius Maximus made her his wife?

Answer 14

Gaiseric.

Question 15

What daughter of Licinia Eudoxia was engaged to Huneric, the son of Gaiseric, but was set to be the wife of Palladius, the son of Petronius Maximus?

Answer 15

Eudoxia the younger.

Question 16

What two Huns (or Scythians) did Petronius hire to assassinate Heraclius and Valentinian III?

Answer 16

Optila and Thraustila.

Question 17

What man succeeded Petronius Maximus as emperor in 455 AD?

Answer 17

Avitus.

Question 18

Who did Avitus appoint as magister utriusque militiae?

Answer 18

Ricimer.

Question 19

What son and successor of Theodoric I was a close friend of Avitus.

Answer 19

Theodoric II.

Question 20

What son-in-law of Avitus “celebrated the new emperor’s assumption of the consulship on [January 1st 456 AD] by a long panegyric which accorded him with every possible virtue”.

Answer 20

Sidonius Apollinarius

Question 21

Where were Avitus’s remains buried?

Answer 21

Brivas.

Question 22

What man reigned in the west from 457 to 461 AD?

Answer 22

Majorian.

Question 23

Who had Majorian executed in 461 AD?

Answer 23

Ricimer.

Question 24

Why did Ricimer execute Majorian?

Answer 24

He could not guarantee grain flow from Africa.

Question 25

According to Procopius, which Roman Emperor was “gentle to his subjects; that he was terrible to his enemies; and that he excelled, in every virtue, all his predecessors who had reigned over the Romans”.

After reading Gibbon, I can say without a doubt that he was loved by later authors despite not actually solving any problems.

Answer 25

Majorian

Question 26

What man was elected by the sentate at the behest of Ricimer after the death of his predecessor Majorian?

Answer 26

Libius Severus or Severus III