Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers"; pl.: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the later Roman Empire, dating from...

practice for both magistri militum praesentales to be equal but in the West it had become common for one magister, (usually the magister peditum), to be superior...

the son of Bauto, his predecessor as Valentinian II's protector and magister militum, is variously defended and contested by modern scholarship. John of...

In 531, he replaced Belisarius as magister militum per Orientem before re-assuming his rank of Magister militum per Illyricum again in 532. In that...

he was elevated to the rank of magister militum; this was probably the junior of the two offices of comes et magister utriusque militiae, as the senior...

in Africa as its governor general, combining the military post of magister militum with the civil position of praetorian prefect. Solomon successfully...

late 587 or early 588, to command in the East against the Persians as magister militum per Orientem, replacing Philippicus. He only reached the East in spring...

his troops, lifted the block on the mountain passes, and retired. As magister militum per Thracias, Emperor Theodosius I, who had succeeded Valens after...

407–411) was a general of the Western Roman Empire (with the rank of magister militum), who initially supported the usurper Constantine III, later betraying...

in 550, following the failure of a large Byzantine army under the magister militum per Armeniam Dagisthaeus to capture the strategic fortress of Petra...