{"slug": "ricimer", "label": "Ricimer", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricimer", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309845", "qid": "Q309845", "description": "Romanized Germanic general who effectively ruled the remaining territory of the Western Roman Empire (405-472)", "entries": 12, "years": 9, "span": [405, 473], "span_label": ["405 CE", "473 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "gundobad", "label": "Gundobad", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "leo-i-emperor", "label": "Leo I (emperor)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "burgundians", "label": "Burgundians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-st-peter-s-basilica", "label": "Old St. Peter's Basilica", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "corsica", "label": "Corsica", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germanic-peoples", "label": "Germanic peoples", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "august", "label": "August", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northern-italy", "label": "Northern Italy", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 405, "year_label": "405 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ricimer, de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367640804#Births", "title": "405", "revid": 1367640804, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 418, "year_label": "418 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ricimer, Germanic Roman general", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353837472#Births", "title": "418", "revid": 1353837472, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 456, "year_label": "456 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Avitus sends a Germanic naval expedition under command of Ricimer, to defend Sicily. They defeat the Vandals twice: on land at the Battle of Agrigentum, and in a sea battle off Corsica.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752999#Roman_Empire", "title": "456", "revid": 1364752999, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 461, "year_label": "461 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 2", "text": "August 2 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy), and deposed by Ricimer (magister militum) as puppet emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204937#Roman_Empire", "title": "461", "revid": 1349204937, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 465, "year_label": "465 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Ricimer, de facto ruler, establishes political control for 2 years from his residence in Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739674#Roman_Empire", "title": "465", "revid": 1364739674, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 467, "year_label": "467 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – Emperor Leo I has his general Anthemius elected emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He allies himself with Ricimer, de facto ruler of Rome, and marries Anthemius's daughter Alypia to him, to strengthen the relationship and end the hostilities between the Eastern and Western Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360138919#Roman_Empire", "title": "467", "revid": 1360138919, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 468, "year_label": "468 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August", "text": "August – Marcellinus is murdered in Sicily, probably at the instigation of his political rival, Ricimer. Heraclius is left to fight alone against the Vandals; after a 2-year campaign in the desert he returns to Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360138410#Roman_Empire", "title": "468", "revid": 1360138410, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 472, "year_label": "472 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Western Roman Empire enters a period of unrest. Relations between Ricimer, de facto ruler, and Emperor Anthemius deteriorate completely. Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia, negotiates a peace agreement.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350806015#Roman_Empire", "title": "472", "revid": 1350806015, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 472, "year_label": "472 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 18", "text": "August 18 – Ricimer dies at his palace of malignant fever, vomiting blood.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350806015#Roman_Empire", "title": "472", "revid": 1350806015, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 472, "year_label": "472 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 18", "text": "August 18 – Ricimer, de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350806015#Deaths", "title": "472", "revid": 1350806015, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 472, "year_label": "472 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – Anthemius, besieged in the part of Rome he controls until his troops are defeated, is caught while fleeing the city disguised as a supplicant in the Old St. Peter's Basilica (or at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere), and later beheaded by Gundobad or Ricimer. Ricimer proclaims Olybrius emperor. Ricimer's nephew, the Burgundian general Gundobad, assumes command of the Western army and holds de facto power in the Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350806015#Roman_Empire", "title": "472", "revid": 1350806015, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 473, "year_label": "473 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Emperor Leo I refuses to recognize him, and chooses Julius Nepos as candidate to the Western throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747615#Roman_Empire", "title": "473", "revid": 1364747615, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}