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Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus (206 - August, 253), was Roman emperor from 251 to 253, in the joint rule sustaining his boy Volusianus.

Gallus was natural inside Italy, around the personal using respected ancestry & the senatorial background. He got ii babies around his marriage by having Afinithe Gemina Baebiana: a new emperor Gaius Vibius Volusianus & a girl, Vibia Galla. His early career was average sustaining many appointments, two political & military. He was suffect consul and in 250 was nominated governor of the Roman province of Moesia Superior, an appointment that showed the confidence of emperor Trajan Decius in him. Withwithin Moesia, Gallus was a key figure in repelling the frequent invasion attacks per Gothic tribes of the Danube and became popular with a army.

In July 1 251, Decius & his co-emperor and boy Herennius Etruscus died in the battle of Abrittus, at a paws of the Goths it were supposed to punish for raids into the empire. Whenever a army heard a news, a soldiers proclaimed Gallus emperor, despite Hostilian, Decius' surviving son, ascending a royal potty inside Rome. Gallus did non back down from either his intention to became emperor, however accepted Hostilian when co-emperor, mayhap to stay away from a damage of an additional civil war. When Gallus advance Rome, an irruption of plague struck a city & flushed the immature Hostilian. Using absolute power at present in his mitts, Gallus nominated his boy Volusianus co-emperor.

Avid to show himself competent & benefit popularity by using a citizens, Gallus fleetly dealt by using a epidemic, providing burial for the people. Gallus is typically accused of persecuting a Christians, but a single firm grounds to believe of this allegation is the imprisoning of Pope Cornelius in 252.

Rather his predecessors, Gallus did non use at times an easily reign. In the East, king Shapur I of Persia invaded and conquered a province of Syria, without any response from either Rome. On a Danube, a Gothic tribes were again escaped, despite the pacification check in 251. A army was non supprised using a emperor & whilst Aemilianus, governor of Moesia Superior & Pannonia, took a initiative of battle and discomfited a Goths, a soldiers proclaimed him emperor. By owning the usurper threatening the potty, Gallus prepared for the fight. He recalled many legions and ordered reinforcements to link to to Rome from either a Rhine frontier. Despite these dispositions, Aemilianus marched onto Italy ready to fight for his claim. Gallus did non develop a risk to face him around battle: he was murdered by his have troops inside August 253. His boy Volusianus shared his fate.


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