455 - 456 AD - Reign of Avitus (mar 11, 455 – may 8, 456)
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9 July 455 – 17 October 456
(1 year, 3 months and 8 days)
General; proclaimed emperor by the Visigoths and Gallo-Romans after the death of Petronius Maximus
Defeated and deposed by the magister militum Ricimer, became a bishop. Died shortly after of either natural causes, strangulation, or being starved to death
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