Flavius Aetius
Roman general and statesman ( c. 390 - 454) · Politicians · Died at 64
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Something wrong?The Roman general who held the crumbling Western Empire together for twenty years by managing the barbarian armies on its soil - until his own emperor stabbed him to death in 454.
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Born around 390, Aetius rose through military ranks to become the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire by 433, spending two decades directing policy toward the barbarian federates who had settled across imperial territory. In 451 he assembled a massive force of Romans and allied foederati to meet Attila at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, stopping the Hun's invasion of Gaul - though Attila still managed to push into Italy the next year, sacking Aquileia before Pope Leo I intervened. Contemporaries called him "the terror of Barbarians and the support of the Republic," the one man propping up the West. On 21 September 454, Emperor Valentinian III assassinated him.
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