Bonifacius, -432
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- Boniface, Count of Africa, -432
- Bonifatius, comes Africae, -432
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Death Date
- 0432
Associated Locale
- Rome
Field of Activity
Rome--History--Empire, 284-476
(lcsh) Africa (Roman province)--Administration
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Sources
- found: The last of the Romans, 2014:title page (Bonifatius, warlord and comes Africae)
- found: The prosopography of the later Roman Empire, 2. A.D. 395-527, 1980, viewed online July 14, 2014:pp. 237-238 (Bonifatius; MVM [magister utriusque militiae] (West); patricius; said to be a native of Thrace; he was at Marseilles when Athaulfus attacked it in late 413, wounded the Visigothic king; commanded a unit of foederati in Africa with success against the Moorish tribes; comes Africae 423/424-425; remained loyal to Placidia when she was exiled in 423; comes domesticorum et Africae 425-427, 429-432, perhaps made comes domesticorum in 425 as reward for his loyalty, but instructed to remain in Africa; his title from 429 to 432 is not recorded, but he was not yet magister militum; defeated by Vandals in 430, 432; recalled to Italy in 432, office of MVM (West) conferred on him, possibly made patricius at the same time; later in 432 he encountered his rival Aetius in battle near Rimini and defeated him, but was mortally wounded, died soon after)
- found: Oxford Reference website, citing Oxford classical dictionary, 4th ed., 2012, viewed July 14, 2014(Bonifacius (or Bonifatius), Roman general, d. AD 432)
- found: Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias website, Hofmann J. Lexicon universale, viewed July 14, 2014(Bonifacius; Africae Comes [text in Latin])
- found: Aetius: Attila's nemesis, 2012, viewed online July 14, 2014:Select personalities, and elsewhere (Boniface; a native of Thrace, he rose to become Count of Africa in 422)
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- 2014-07-14: new
- 2014-07-15: revised
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