Amandus (rebel)
Amandus was a rebel in Gaul in the time of Diocletian and leader of the Bagaudae.[1]
He instigated a revolt in Gaul in 285, during the brief power vacuum that followed the death of Carinus. Amandus took charge of a group of peasants ruined by taxes, fugitive slaves, and thieves with the assistance of Aelianus.[2] The two burnt several villages, and ransomed several cities. In response, the emperor Diocletian sent his colleague Maximian. Maximiam weakened their forces in several battles, before forcing them to retreat to a citadel near Paris now known as Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. Maximian successfully destroyed the citadel and killed everyone inside, including Amandus.[3]
Amandus was once thought to be a Roman usurper, with coins issued with his name. However, the only known specimen of this coin is probably a forgery.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Jones, A. H. M.; Martindale, J. R.; Morris, John, eds. (1971). "Amandus 1". Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 50.
- ^ Théophile Boutiot (1870). Histoire de la ville de Troyes et de la Champagne méridionale (sur books.google.fr) (in French). p. 75. 1870boutiot. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ Guillaume Beauvais (1767). Histoire abrégée des empereurs romains et grecs, des impératrices, des césars, des tyrans... impr. de Bure père. p. 163-164..
- ^ Doi, Masaoki; Yuge, Toru (2023). Forms of Control and Subordination in Antiquity. BRILL. pp. 291–293. ISBN 978-90-04-67606-0.