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Also known as Flavius Armatus

Flavius Armatus (died 477), also known as Harmatius, was an Eastern Roman military commander, magister militum under Emperors Leo I, Basiliscus and Zeno, and consul. He was instrumental in the rebellion of Basiliscus against Zeno, and in his subsequent fall.

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Military person.name
Flavius Armatus
Military person.birth_date
Unknown
Military person.death_date
477
Military person.allegiance
Byzantine Empire
Military person.rank
Magister militum, consul
Military person.relations
Uncle: Basiliscus Son: Basiliscus Aunt: Verina

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date of death
0477-01-01
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  • Origin and early career
  • Rise of Basiliscus
  • Fall of Basiliscus and Armatus's death
  • Relationship between Armatus and Odoacer
  • Notes
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Flavius Armatus (died 477), also known as Harmatius, was an Eastern Roman military commander, magister militum under Emperors Leo I, Basiliscus and Zeno, and consul. He was instrumental in the rebellion of Basiliscus against Zeno, and in his subsequent fall.

== Origin and early career == Armatus was a nephew of Basiliscus and of Empress Verina, the wife of Leo I. It is known that Armatus had a son, also named Basiliscus. During the last part of Emperor Leo's reign, Armatus, as magister militum per Thracias, successfully quelled a revolt in Thrace, cutting off the hands of the Thracian prisoners and sending them to the rebels. It is possible that the rebels were men of the Thracian Goth Theodoric Strabo, a military commander under Leo, and hence this revolt would have been the one started by Strabo between the death of Aspar (471) and the end of Leo's rule (473).

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