Gallus Quintus Bonosus was a Roman usurper. Born in Spain, his father was a Briton and his mother came from Gaul. He lost his father early in life but his mother gave him a decent education. He had a distinguished military career and an excellent service record when, stationed on the Rhine, the Germans managed to burn and destroy the Roman fleet under his command. Usurpers were a common feature of the late Roman Empire, especially from the so-called crisis of the third century onwards, when political instability became the rule. ... Look up Briton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Map of Gaul circa 58 BC Gaul (Latin Gallia, Greek Galatia) was the region of Western Europe occupied by present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. ... Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (Dutch Rijn, French Rhin, German Rhein, Italian: Reno, Romansch: Rein, ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... Octavian, widely known as Augustus, founder of the Roman empire The Roman Empire was a phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government. ... The Roman Navy (Latin: Classis) operated between the First Punic war and the end of the Western Roman Empire. ...

Fearful of the consequence he proclaimed himself Roman emperor (ca. 281) at Cologne (Colonia Agrippina) jointly with Proculus. However, it did not save him from Probus, who after a lengthy and protracted struggle, managed to defeat him. Bonosus saw no way out and hanged himself. Roman Emperor is the term historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ... Events Births Deaths Categories: 281 ... Köln redirects here. ... The History of Cologne, Germanys oldest major city, can be broken into several periods: The Romans In 39 BC, the tribe of the Ubii entered into an agreement with the Roman forces and settled on the left bank of the Rhine. ... Proculus derived his origin from the Franks. ... This antoninianus minted under Probus (c. ...

He left behind a wife and two sons who were treated with honour by Probus. This antoninianus minted under Probus (c. ...