UofL - Engl 3450
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Leo...chose as Emperor [of the West] his patrician Anthemius and sent him to Rome....
Now Euric, King of the Visigoths, perceived the frequent changes of Roman emperors and strove to hold Gaul in his own right. The Emperor Anthemius heard of it and asked the Britons for aid. Their king Riotimus came with twelve thousand men into the state of the Bituriges by the way of Ocean, and was received as he disembarked from his ships. Euric, King of the Visigoths, came against them with an innumerable army, and after a long fight he routed Riotimus, King of the Britons, before the Romans could join him. So when he had lost a great part of his army, he fled with all the men he could gather together, and came to the Burgundians, a neighboring tribe then allied with the Romans. (Qtd. in Ashe "Ancient Book" 310)
Now Euric, King of the Visigoths, perceived the frequent changes of Roman emperors and strove to hold Gaul in his own right. The Emperor Anthemius heard of it and asked the Britons for aid. Their king Riotimus came with twelve thousand men into the state of the Bituriges by the way of Ocean, and was received as he disembarked from his ships. Euric, King of the Visigoths, came against them with an innumerable army, and after a long fight he routed Riotimus, King of the Britons, before the Romans could join him. So when he had lost a great part of his army, he fled with all the men he could gather together, and came to the Burgundians, a neighboring tribe then allied with the Romans. (Qtd. in Ashe "Ancient Book" 310)
From:
http://www.westnet.com/~levins/thesis.html469: Roman Emperor Appeals to Britons'
c.469 - Roman emperor, Anthemius,
appeals to Britons for military help against the Visigoths. Reliable
accounts by Sidonius Apolonaris and Jordanes name the leader of the
12,000 man British force, Riothamus. The bulk of the British force was
wiped out in battle against Euric, the Visigothic king, and the
survivors, including Riothamus, vanished and were never heard from,
again.
From:
http://www.britannia.com/history/arthur/timearth.html458-60: Migration of British Aristocrats
c.458-60
- Full-scale migration of British aristocrats and
city-dwellers across the English Channel to
Armorica, in north-western Gaul (the "second
migration"). British contingent led by
Riothamus (perhaps a title, not a name).
From:
http://www.britannia.com/history/ebk/ebktime1.html460-470: pro-Roman - Ambrosius Aurelianus
c.460-70
- Ambrosius Aurelianus of pro-Roman faction takes
full control of Britain; leads Britons in years
of back-and-forth fighting with Saxons. British
strategy seems to have been to allow Saxon
landings and to then contain them there.
From:
http://www.britannia.com/history/ebk/ebktime1.html
