Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers"; pl.: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the late Roman Empire, dating from the...
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Empire in the Gothic War. At this point Bauto was probably already a magister militum, and Arbogast was some kind of deputy commander, although we do not...
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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...
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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...
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in Africa as its governor general, combining the military post of magister militum with the civil position of praetorian prefect. Solomon successfully...
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his troops, lifted the block on the mountain passes, and retired. As magister militum per Thracias, Emperor Theodosius I, who had succeeded Valens after...
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Salian Frank of Laetic origin. He was the first ever Frank to be made magister militum, in 324. He fought beside Constantine against Licinius and was the...
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Flavius Aetius (redirect from Flavius Aetius (magister militum))
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...
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converted to Christianity. He received two letters by Theodoret. He was magister militum praesentalis in the East at least since 443 and until 451, when he...
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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...
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