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BONIFACIUS (d. 432)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 208 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONIFACIUS (d. 432) , the See also:Roman See also:governor of the See also:province of See also:Africa who is generally believed to have invited the See also:Vandals into that province in revenge for the hostile See also:action of Placidia, ruling in behalf of her son the See also:emperor Valentinian III. (428-429). That action is by See also:Procopius attributed to his See also:rival Maus, but the earliest authorities speak of a certain See also:Felix, See also:chief See also:minister of Placidia, as the calumniator of Bonifacius. Whether he really invited the Vandals or not, there is no doubt that he soon turned against them and bravely defended the See also:city of See also:Hippo from their attacks. In 432 he returned to See also:Italy, was received into favour by Placidia, and appointed See also:master of the soldiery. Plains, how-ever, resented his promotion, the two rivals met, perhaps in single combat, and Bonifacius, though victorious, received a See also:wound from the effects of which he died three months later. The authorities for the extremely obscure and difficult See also:history of these transactions are well discussed by E. A. See also:Freeman in an See also:article in the See also:English See also:Historical See also:Review, See also:July 1887, to which the reader is referred. But compare also See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman See also:Empire, vol. iii. pp. 505-506, edited by J.

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Bury (See also:London, 1897).

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