Richomer was born in 0335, the son of Teutomer Merovingian Dynasty but his mother is unknown. The place is not known.
He died in 0393. The place is not known.
His wife was Ascyla. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Theodomir (c0360-c0428).
| Event | Date | Details | Source | Multimedia | Notes |
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| Birth | 335 | ||||
| Death | 393 |
Note 1
!StyleName: Merovingian Dynasty, Richomer Consul of Rome[384],Frankish Roman officer,magister militum [335 - 393]
!Source: Richomer https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richomer_
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Richomer
Title
Leader of the Salian Franks
Predecessor -
Successor Theodomir
Biography
Date of birth 335
Date of death 393
Father Teutomer
Children Theodomir
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Richomer , born in 335 , was a Frankish officer in the service of the Roman Empire . He was comes domesticorum 1 , magister militum and consul of Rome in 384. He died in 393 .
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Biography
According to Eugen Ewig , he could be the son of Teutomer , who had been a Frankish officer in the service of the Emperor Julian . 2 Karl Ferdinand Werner follows this view , 3 but Christian Settipani is more reserved, arguing that it is difficult to conclude as long as Teutomer's people of origin remain unknown . 4
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In 377, the Emperor Gratian sent him to the East at the head of troops to help his uncle, the co-emperor Valens, fight the Goths of Fritigern . In September, he joined the troops of the Eastern Empire commanded by Trajan and Profuturus and participated with them in the Battle of the Willows . 5 Failing to gain the upper hand over the Goths, Richomer returned to the West to seek reinforcements. He accompanied the Western army commanded by Gratian on its way to the Balkans.
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In early August, he was sent by Gratian as an emissary to Valens to ask him, without success, to wait for his arrival before engaging in combat . 6 Two days later, the Romans were defeated at the Battle of Adrianople onAugust 9, 3787. While Valens was killed in the battle, Richomer survived the rout and remained in the East, where he seconded Theodosius I , the new Caesar appointed in the East. New Frankish and Roman contingents, commanded by Bauto and his nephew Arbogast , joined him and enabled him to redress the situation. Theodosius appointed him master of the militia for the East in 383 and consul of Rome in 384. 8 , 9 .
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He did not devote himself only to his military career, but was interested in the arts and literature and corresponded with the rhetorician Libanius 10 , Symmachus 11 and the theologian Saint Augustine 12 , 13 .
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In 388, Theodosius sent him to the West to fight the usurper Magnus Maximus who was defeated at the Save, went to Aquileia and was executed. He was then magister militum from 388 to 393. After the assassination of Valentinian II , one of the co-emperors, Arbogast placed Eugene on the throne and Theodosius charged Richomer with fighting them, but the latter died shortly afterwards, leaving Stilicho , a general of Vandal origin , to defeat Eugene and Arbogast at the Battle of Cold River , onSeptember 6, 39414 , 4 .
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Posterity
He had married an Ascylla, beheaded in 413, who had given birth to Theodomir , future king of the Franks 15 , 16 , 17 and perhaps ancestor of the Merovingians according to the late testimony of the Chronicle of Fredegar . The existence of Ricimer , Roman patrician from 457 to 472 led Helmut Castritius to hypothesize a daughter of Richomer, married to Wallia king of the Visigoths and grandmother of the patrician Ricimer 18 , 19 .