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Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers"; pl.: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the late Roman Empire, dating from the...

Christianity. He received two letters by Theodoret. He was magister militum praesentalis in the East at least since 443 and until 451, when he was sent...

of the powerful Bonifacius, comes Africae in 420s, nominated magister militum praesentalis and patrician by the Empress Galla Placidia in 432. The elevation...

Thereafter, Zeno returned to Constantinople and was appointed magister militum praesentalis. In October 473, Leo I appointed as caesar his grandson Leo...

– Felix, the senior magister militum praesentalis, Bonifatius, the magister militum per Africam and Aetius, the magister militum per Gallias. In 427,...

face meeting with Arcadius, forced the emperor to make him magister militum praesentalis and Consul designate for 401. Arcadius also acquiesced when...

switched sides after Zeno promised to give him the position of magister militum praesentalis for life, and make his son Basiliscus caesar. With Armatus'...

the magister peditum, and for the East (the iuniores, junior to their counterparts in the West), as being under the command of the magister militum praesentalis...

magister militum was also in command of the duces in the diocese where his comitatus was deployed. The highest rank of Magister militum praesentalis (lit...

Nisibis. After the war ended, Ardabur was promoted to the rank of magister militum praesentalis. In 424, Ardabur and his son Aspar were sent on a campaign to...

Theodosius I. During the usurpation of Joannes, Gaudentius was made magister militum praesentalis. Gaudentius died in a military uprising in Gaul before 425....

(c. 420 – after 475) was an Arverni aristocrat, senator, and magister militum praesentalis from 474 until 475. As a son of the Emperor Avitus, Ecdicius...

Dacia ripensis were ceded to the Goths, and Theodoric was named magister militum praesentalis and consul for 484. Barely a year later, Theodoric and Zeno...

officers, Aetius (magister militum in Gaul), Count Boniface (governor in the Diocese of Africa), and Flavius Felix (magister militum praesentalis in Italy)....

the Battle of Adrianople (378) and later part the army of the magister militum praesentalis of the East. Later the Cornuti iuniores were sent to guard the...

are listed both under the command of the Magister militum praesentalis in the East and under that of the Magister peditum for Italy in the West. The Batavi...

relationship with Emperor Justinian may date to Justinian's service as magister militum praesentalis in the 520s, prior to his elevation to the Byzantine throne...

also known as Harmatius, was an Eastern Roman military commander, magister militum under Emperors Leo I, Basiliscus and Zeno, and consul. He was instrumental...

where Huns had been camped since 378-380. When Gainas, former magister militum praesentalis, with his Gothic followers fled across the borders to "his native...

Flavius Aetius gains appointment as master of both services (magister militum praesentalis), after gaining victories in Gaul over Visigoth and Frankish...