Postumus

Reece Period attributed: Period 13

Member of the The Gallic Emperors dynasty.

Coins for this issuer were issued from 260 until 269.

Postumus was proclaimed emperor by his forces, the Rhine legions, in 260; he captured and executed Gallienus’ son Saloninus. However, the purpose of his revolt was not to march on Rome but to create a Western empire. Gallienus left Postumus alone when it became clear that he would not march on Rome; later Gallienus attacked the rebel but suffered personal injury and went back to Rome.

Postumus didn’t support Aureolus’ defection in 268 and refused to enter the conflict in Italy. However, this move may have cost him some support and he was killed the next year during the revolt of Laelian by his soldier, angered when he would not let them pillage Mainz.

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Other resources about Postumus

• Dbpedia: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Postumus
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postumus
• VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/243990358

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Information from Wikipedia

• Preferred label: Postumus
• Full names:
  • Imperator Caesar Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus Pius Felix Augustus Germanicus Maximus (as emperor)
  • Postumus
  • Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus (prior to accession);
• Title: Emperor of the Gallic Empire, Consul of the Roman Empire
• Predecessor: Gallienus
• Successor: Marcus Aurelius Marius
• Definition: Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus was a Roman commander of provincial origin who ruled as emperor in the west. The Roman army in Gaul threw off its allegiance to Gallienus around the year 260, and Postumus assumed the title and powers of emperor in the provinces of Gaul, Germania, Britannia and Hispania, thereby founding what scholars have dubbed the Gallic Empire. He ruled for the better part of ten years before he was murdered by his own troops.
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• Birth place: Roman Gaul
• Death place: Mainz
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• Other title(s):
  • Emperor of the Gallic Empire
  • Consul of the Roman Empire
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• Subjects on wikipedia:
  • 3rd-century Roman usurpers
  • Thirty Tyrants (Roman)
  • 3rd-century monarchs in Europe
  • Gallic Emperors
  • 269 deaths
  • Batavian people
  • Roman governors of Germania Inferior
  • Cassianii
  • Year of birth missing
  • Imperial Roman consuls
  • Murdered Roman emperors