![]() Negotiations followed in 384, including the intervention of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, leading to an accord with Valentinian II and Theodosius I in which Maximus was recognized as Augustus in the West. Continuing his campaign into Italy, Maximus was stopped from overthrowing Valentinian II, who was only twelve, when Bauto came with a powerful force to forestall him. After five days of skirmishing near Paris he defeated Gratian, who fled the battlefield and was killed at Lyon on 25 August 383. Maximus went to Gaul to pursue his imperial ambitions, taking a large portion of the British garrison with him. In 383 the discontented Roman army proclaimed Maximus emperor in Gratian's place. ![]() The Western emperor Gratian had received a number of Alans into his bodyguard, and was accused of showing favouritism towards these Iranian speaking foreigners at the expense of Roman citizens. Assigned to Britain in 380, he defeated an incursion of the Picts and Scots in 381. He served under Count Theodosius in Africa in 373. Maximus was a distinguished general he was probably a junior officer in Britain in 368, during the quelling of the Great Conspiracy. Maximus was born in Gallaecia, on the estates of Count Theodosius (the Elder) of the Theodosian dynasty, to whom he claimed to be related. In the view of some historians, his death marked the end of direct imperial presence in Northern Gaul and Britain. In 387, Maximus's ambitions led him to invade Italy, resulting in his defeat by Theodosius I at the Battle of Poetovio in 388. He was made emperor in Britannia and Gaul the next year while Gratian's brother Valentinian II retained Italy, Pannonia, Hispania, and Africa. He usurped the throne from emperor Gratian. Magnus Maximus ( Latin: Welsh: Macsen Wledig died 8 August 388) was Roman emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 383 to 388.
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