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dated to 31 December 406. Modern historians have therefore debated whether this event was the trigger for the rebellion. Historians such as N. H. Baynes and M. Kulikowski argue that the rebellion was triggered by the crossing of the Rhine, which should therefore be dated to 31 December 405. Others,
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Whatever the cause of the rebellion, all that is known of Marcus' brief reign is that he did not please the army and was soon killed by them and replaced by another short-lived usurper,
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which triggered the rebellion were related to the barbarians who entered Gaul from Italy, probably part of the army of
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sometime in 406, possibly during the summer. Possibly one of the army commanders in Britain (
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has suggested that the revolt of the British legions in 406 was primarily directed against
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Marcus was a high-ranking soldier in Roman Britain who was proclaimed
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Roman usurper who was proclaimed emperor in 406 in Roman Britain
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Index

Usurper
Western Roman Empire
Honorius
Gratian
Britannia
Regnal name
Roman usurper
Roman Britain
emperor
army
Comes Britanniarum
Comes Litoris Saxonici
Dux Britanniarum
J. B. Bury
Stilicho
magister militum
Honorius
Olympiodorus of Thebes
Zosimus
Orosius
Vandal
Alanic
crossing the Rhine
Prosper of Aquitaine
Anthony Birley
Gaul
Radagaisus
Gratian
Constantine III
Historia Regum Britanniae

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