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See also:AETIUS (d. 454) , a See also:Roman See also:general of the closing See also:period of the Western See also:empire, See also:born at Dorostolus in See also:Moesia, See also:late in the 4th See also:century. He was the son of Gaudentius, who, although possibly of See also:barbarian See also:family, See also:rose in the service of the Western empire to be See also:master of the See also:horse, and later See also:count of See also:Africa. Aetius passed some years as See also:hostage, first with See also:Alaric and the Goths, and later in the See also:camp of Rhuas, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the See also:Huns, acquiring in this way the knowledge which enabled him afterwards to defeat them. In 424 he led into See also:Italy an See also:army of 6o,000 barbarians, mostly Huns, which he employed first to support the primicerius Joannes, who had proclaimed himself See also:emperor, and, on the defeat of the latter, to enforce his claim to the supreme command of the army in See also:Gaul upon Placidia, the empress-See also:mother and See also:regent for Valentinian III. His calumnies against his See also:rival, Count See also:Boniface, which were at first believed by the emperor, led Boniface to revolt and See also:call the See also:Vandals to Africa. Upon the See also:discovery of the truth, Boniface, although defeated in Africa, was received into favour by Valentinian; but Aetius came down against Boniface from his Gallic See also:wars, like another See also:Julius See also:Caesar, and in the See also:battle which followed wounded Boniface fatally with his own See also:javelin. From 433 to 450 Aetius was the dominating See also:personality in the Western empire. In Gaul he won his military reputation, upholding for nearly twenty years, by combined policy and daring, the falling fortunes of the empire. .His greatest victory was that of Chalons-sur-See also:Marne (See also:September 20, 451), in which he led the Gallic forces against See also:Attila and the Huns. This was the last See also:triumph of the empire. Three years later (454) Aetius presented himself at See also:court to claim the emperor's daughter in See also:marriage for his son Gaudentius; but Valentinian, suspecting him of designs upon the See also:crown, slew him with his own See also:hand.
See T. See also:Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders, vols. i. and ii. (188o).
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