Chrocus (also Crocus) was a leader of the Alamanni in the late 3rd century. In 260, he led an uprising of the Alamanni against the Roman Empire, traversing the Upper Germanic Limes and advancing as far as Clermont, and possibly as far as Ravenna, and he was possibly present at the Alamannic conquest of the Frankish town of Mende. The Alamanni, Allemanni or Alemanni, were an alliance of warbands formed from Germanic tribes, first mentioned by Dio Cassius when they fought Caracalla in 213. ... // Events The Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east. ... Events Valerian I captured by the Persian king Shapur I; Gallienus becomes sole Roman emperor. ... The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus), until its radical reformation in what was later to be known as the Byzantine Empire. ... Reconstructed Limes near Saalburg, Germany. ... Clermont is the name of several places in the United States of America: Clermont, Florida Clermont, Georgia Clermont, Indiana Clermont, Iowa Clermont, New York Clermont County, Ohio Clermont is the name of several communes in France: Clermont, in the Ariège département Clermont, in the Haute-Savoie département Clermont, in the... Ravenna is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ... The Mende are a large tribe (population approximately 700,000) living primarily in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. ...

In 306, Chrocus was present as a general in Roman service at the death of Julius Constantius in York, Britannia, as Constantine I was declared Roman Emperor. Events July 25 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops. ... Flavius Julius Constantius (d. ... York is a city in northern England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ... Britannia, the British national personification. ... See the appropriate page for Roman emperor Constantine I (the Great) Constantine I of Scotland Constantine I of Greece This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Roman Emperor is the title historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ...

Literature

• Dieter Geuenich, Geschichte der Alemannen, Kohlhammer Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3170182277 / ISBN 3170120956