Odoacer in a sentence

Odoacer's donation to Pierius Odoacer is the first ruler of Italy for whom the original text of any of his legal acts has survived.

A. H. M. Jones also notes that under Odoacer the Senate acquired "enhanced prestige and influence" in order to counter any desires for restoration of Imperial rule.

Both Odoacer and Theoderic and their followers were Arian Christians, but co-existed peacefully with the Latins, who were largely Orthodox.

Bryce 1961, p.25 He was also asked to make Odoacer a patrician, and administrator of Italy in Zeno's name.

By placing himself under the rule of the Eastern Emperor, rather than naming himself Emperor (as other Germanic chiefs had done after deposing past emperors), Odoacer ended the Western Empire by ending the line of Western emperors.

Cook uses Ennodius' brevity as an argumentum ex silentio to prove that Odoacer was very supportive of the Church.

Ethnic affiliation Except for the fact that he was not considered Roman, Odoacer's ethnic origins are not completely known.

Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks, translated by Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), p. 174 The first certain act recorded for Odoacer was shortly before he arrived in Italy.

However, he was traditionally considered the "last Roman Emperor" by 18th and 19th century western scholars and his overthrow by Odoacer used as the marking point between historical epochs, and as such he is usually included in regnal lists.

In about 479, Nepos began to plot against Odoacer, hoping to regain control of Italy for himself.

It was at this banquet that Theoderic, after making a toast, killed Odoacer; Theoderic drew his sword and struck him on the collarbone.

Leader of the foederati By 470, Odoacer had become an officer in what remained of the Roman Army.

MacGeorge (2002), p. 62 Ovida served as the next ruler of Dalmatia for a few months, but Odoacer used Nepos' murder as a pretext to invade Dalmatia.

Malchus, fragment 10, translated in C. D. Gordon, The Age of Attila, pp. 127–129 Although he accepted the title of Patrician, Odoacer did not invite Julius Nepos to return to Rome, and the latter remained in Dalmatia until his death.

None of the parties involved in this transaction—not Pierius, Odoacer, nor the witnesses—could foresee that the recipient would die the following year in the battle of the Adda River.

Odoacer again was defeated and forced back into Ravenna, where Theoderic besieged him.

Odoacer, at the time "a young man, of tall figure, clad in poor clothes", learned from Severinus that he would one day become famous.

Odoacer introduced few important changes into the administrative system of Italy.

Odoacer sent Romulus Augustulus to Campania in exile or retirement, after which he disappears from the historical record.

Odoacer was careful to observe form, however, and made a pretence of acting on Nepos' authority, even issuing coins with his image.