Aspar, Flavius Ardaburius, -471
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- Aspar and the struggle for the eastern Roman Empire (A.D. 421-471), 2022:ECIP title page (Aspar)
- Britannica website, Nov. 9, 2021(Flavius Ardaburius Aspar ; Roman general; (died 471), Roman general of Alani descent, influential in the Eastern Roman Empire under the emperors Marcian (ruled 450-457) and Leo I (ruled 457-474))
- Wikipedia, Nov. 9, 2021(Flavius Ardabur Aspar (c. 400-471) was an Eastern Roman patrician and magister militum ("master of soldiers") of Alanic-Gothic descent. As the general of a Germanic army in Roman service, Aspar exerted great influence on the Eastern Roman Emperors for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, over Theodosius II, Marcian and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed. His death led to the ending of the Germanic domination of Eastern Roman policy)
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Flavius Ardabur Aspar (Greek: Ἄσπαρ, fl. 400 – 471) was an Eastern Roman patrician and magister militum ("master of soldiers") of Alanic-Gothic descent. As the general of a Germanic army in Roman service, Aspar exerted great influence on the Eastern Roman Emperors for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, through the reigns of Theodosius II, Marcian and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed. His death led to the ending of the Germanic domination of Eastern Roman policy.
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