Flavius Richomeres (Richomer) was a Frank that lived in the late 4th century. He took service in de Roman army and made a career as comes, magister militum, and consul. He was married with Ascyla and they had a son Theudemeres, who became king of the Franks. He was uncle of Arbogastes. For other uses, see Franks (disambiguation). ... Comes (genitive: comitis) is the Latin word for companion, either individually or as a member of a collective known as comitatus (compare comitatenses), especially the suite of a magnate, in some cases large and/or formal enough to have a specific name, such as a cohors amicorum. ... Magister militum (Latin for Master of the Soldiers) was a top-level command used in the later Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine. ... Consul (abbrev. ... Flavius Arbogastes (d. ...

Around the years 377 - 378 Richomeres was Comes Domesticorum of emperor Gratian and was transferred from Gaul to Thracia, where he was involved with the Gothic wars of emperor Valens. At Adrianopole he tried to persuade Valens to wait on Gratian for support. When the Gothic leader Fritigern demanded hostages to secure peace from the Romans he volunteerd and departed the Roman camp to bring the other hostages savely to Fritigern, but before he arrived some divisions of the two armies got out of control and engageged, enrolling so the famous Battle of Adrianople. Richomeres ended up at a battlefield behind enemies lines but he saved himself and survived. However the Roman army of Valens was completely destroyed and many officers fell including emperor Valens. Events Battle of the Willows, Roman troops fight an inconclusive battle against the Visigoths under Fritigern Births Deaths Tuoba Shi Yi Jian King of Dai Categories: 377 ... Events Mid-February: Lentienses cross frozen Rhine, invading Roman Empire. ... A coin of Gratian. ... Map of Gaul circa 58 BC Gaul (Latin: ) was the name given, in ancient times, to the region of Western Europe comprising present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. ... Thrace is a historical and geographic area in south-east Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, north-eastern Greece, and European Turkey. ... Solidus minted by Valens in 376. ... Edirne is a city in (Thrace), the westernmost part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. ... Frithugairns (Gothic for desiring peace) or Fritigern (died ca. ... Combatants Eastern Roman Empire Goths Commanders Valens† Fritigern, Alatheus, Saphrax Strength 15,000 to 30,000 ca. ...

Around 383 he was general in het east (magister militum per orientum) and became consul in 384 Events By Place Roman Empire January 19 - Arcadius is elevated to Emperor. ... Forum of Theodosius I built in Constantinople. ...

In 388 Theodosius I sent him together with his nephew Arbogastes and Promotus and Timasius against Magnus Maximus, who was defeated. // Events Bahram IV becomes king of Persia. ... An engraving depicting what Theodosius may have looked like, ca. ... Magnus Maximus. ...

From the year 388 he served as supreme commander in the Eastern Empire (comes et magister utriusque militiae) untill his death in 393. Richomeres was interested in literature and was acqainted with rethoricians as Libanius and Augustinus. He introduced the rethorician Eugenius to his nephwew Arbogastes. A few years later Arbogastes sized power in het West Roman Empire. After the death of Valentinian II Arbogastes promoted Eugenius to be his Emperor, while he himself remained the leader and generalissimo. In 393 Theodosius I organised a campaign against Arbogastes and Richomeres was asked to lead the cavalary. On the way from the East to the West he died before the battle against his nephew took place. Arbogastes lost the battle and committed suicide with his own sword. // Events Bahram IV becomes king of Persia. ... Events Gao Zu succeeds Tai Zu as Emperor of the Later Qin Empire in China. ... Libanius (Greek Libanios) (ca 314 AD - ca 394) was a Greek-speaking teacher of rhetoric of the later Roman Empire, an educated pagan of the Sophist school in an Empire that was turning aggressively Christian and publicly burned its own heritage and closed the academies. ... For the first Archbishop of Canterbury, see Saint Augustine of Canterbury. ... Eugenius wearing imperial insigna, on a coin celebrateing the VIRTVS ROMANORVM, the (military) value of the Romans. Flavius Eugenius (d. ... A marble statue of Emperor Valentinian II, Aphrodisias Geyre (Aydin, Anatolia), 387–390. ...

References

Ammianus Marcellinus, History, Loeb Classical Library, translated by John C. Rolfe

Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE I), Jones, Martindale, Morris