3 MOST Impressive Centurion Careers

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This video focuses on the recruitment and careers of the backbone of the Roman Army - the Centurions. These officers were highly respected in all forms of society, and possessed skills of combat, literacy, administration, discipline and loyalty.
Primary Sources:
- Decimus Furius Octavius Secundus: CIL 03, 07334
- Marcus Petronius Fortunatus (father and son): CIL 08, 217
- Lucius Aemilius Paternus: CIL 02, 4461 eda-bea.es/pub/record_card_1.p...
- Marcus Aemilius Paternus: CIL 02, 4460
- Aemilia Paterna: IRC 02, 21
- Caius Iulius Lepidus: IRC 02, 97
Secondary Sources:
- Breeze, D. J. "The Career Structure below the Centurionate during the Principate" In Band 1 Politische Geschichte (Allgemeines) edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, 435-451. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. doi.org/10.1515/9783110833133...
- Birley, E. “Promotions and transfers in the Roman army I: senatorial and equestrian officers”, in The Roman Army Papers 1929-1986, Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1988, 93-114.
- Birley, E. “The equestrian officers of the Roman army”, in The Roman Army Papers 1929-1986, Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1988, 147-164.
- Birley, E. “The origins of legionary centurions”, in The Roman Army Papers 1929-1986, Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1988, 189-205.
- Birley, E. “Promotions and transfers in the Roman army II: the ccnturionate”, in The Roman Army Papers 1929-1986, Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1988, 206-220.
- Caballos Rufino, A. “Los caballeros romanos originarios de las provincias de Hispania: un avance” In: L’ordre équestre. Histoire d’une aristocratie (IIe siècle av. J.-C. - IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.) Actes du colloque international de Bruxelles-Leuven, 5-7 octobre 1995. Rome : École Française de Rome, 1999, 463-512. www.persee.fr/doc/efr_0223-50...
- Del Hoyo, J. “Un estudio en torno a Aemilia Paterna”, Gerión 7, 1989, 251-263.
- Dobson, B. "The Significance of the Centurion and ‘Primipilaris’ in the Roman Army and Administration" In Band 1 Politische Geschichte (Allgemeines) edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, 392-434. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. doi.org/10.1515/9783110833133...
- Fabre, G. “Une approche des stratégies familiales : le comportement des notables dans la Tarraconaise nordorientale vu à travers l'exemple d'Aeso-Isona (fin Ier-IIe siècle ap. J.-C.)” In: Parenté et stratégies familiales dans l'Antiquité romaine. Actes de la table ronde des 2-4 octobre 1986 (Paris, Maison des sciences de l'homme), Rome : École Française de Rome, 1990, 311-331. www.persee.fr/doc/efr_0000-00...
Intro (0:00)
Sponsor (0:55)
Decimus Furius Secundus (1:59)
Marcus Petronius and son (5:53)
Lucius Aemilius and family (8:41)

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@HistoriaMilitum Год назад

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@ramona14220 Год назад

What is amazing is that we can look back on the carers of individuals who died 2000 or so years ago in an empire that "fell" 1600 years ago.

@adrienlefebvre9871 Год назад

100% agree. What a time to be alive, we should cherish all those memories from the past... And maybe learn from it, but I dont expect much ^^

@Odd_ysseus Год назад

*600 years ago

@byronwilliams8589 Год назад

Was fina be petty but I'll keep it to myself

@nunyanunya4147 Год назад

save some koolaid for the cosplay field...

@eardwulf785 Год назад

What you're referring to that happened 600 years ago happened to a different kettle of fish.

@cherryrook8684 Год назад

I personally think Decimus' career is the most impressive. Going from Garrison Guard to Primus Pillus without any connections (i assume at least) just by pure skill and determination is quite the achivement, while the others had some form of higher connection or already had established family esteem. What a beast

@AlphariusJingYuan Год назад

Amazing how ambitious and intent Romans were to gain a respectable position in society, I wish I could get a tenth of that enormous willpower

@kingspore5000 Год назад

These were totally different times. Ironically, in some spheres of life, they were more free and we are

@DoktahArk Год назад

That's selection bias, brother

@GoogleUserOne Год назад

Not different times. Different conditions. Chances are if you’re on a device with internet you are not in such a position. But there are tons of people who are… they just don’t have iPhones.

@fightingblindly Год назад

We’re seeing winners. Also loyalty to a general or emperor instead of your country, meh.

@aminoacid6177 Год назад

sadly Diocletian ruined Roman class mobility by making everyone "proto-serfs" with some of his reforms

@gabrielinostroza4989 Год назад

These guys would have had some crazy book deals nowdays

@AudieHolland Год назад

Decimus was one helluvan accountant

@tylerschoen5643 Год назад

He got a Walled Crown and still had a long career!! That’s terrifying

@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156 Год назад

I would pay a *lot* to witness the martial skills of an actual Roman Legion. Someone make a time machine please.

@Quickeasyguitarlessons Год назад

They would turn you into a slave. You wouldn’t want that brother.

@LannisterFromDaRock Год назад

@@Quickeasyguitarlessons It depends. Being a greek slave tutor wasn't that bad. With my knowledge, I think I could handle something similar like that. Just don't send me to the mines.

@deusvult6920 Год назад

@@Quickeasyguitarlessons nah I'm gonna bring an m249 and 50k rounds with me on the time machine.

@slightlyconfused876 Год назад

I'm pretty sure Roman generals were willing to fight in the front line as well, a hell of a lot of them seemed to get wounded or killed. Look at Caesar's career as an example.

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

Caesar was the oddity when it comes to roman generals. A roman general was not expected to be in the middle of the action fighting sword in hand. Remember that many of the roman generals did undergo military service in their 20s and early 30s in the junior ranks. That was the moment where they could show off their skills and earn distinction in combat not when they were generals. A foolish or rash action and they could ruin the whole campaign with their death. It was better for them to lead as close to the action as possible but without putting themselves in inmediate danger. Encouraging the soldiers, giving instructions and reassuring the men with his presence

@luisnunes3863 Год назад

No, a roman general was not supposed to expose himself, unless things were utterly dire, like Scipio or Caesar did. Those that liked danger too much were handled severely by the sources.

@theempiredidnothingwrong3227 Год назад

A proper Roman commander fills in the ranks when necessary but leads from behind so he may survey the whole battlefield and order tactical changes based on the course of the battle. Caesar exemplified this only going to the front to prevent routs or fill in for dead officers. Which did happen a lot do to the intensity of the conflicts he fought.

@GoogleUserOne Год назад

If the general dies pandemonium ensues. I feel like the generals only charged in when it was a calculated risk of averting disaster. Sulla did the same thing. Paulinus in the last stand against Boudicca didn’t really have a choice. Crassus just had no idea who he was fucking with.

@jonbaxter2254 Год назад

Caesar will always be a gigachad in my eyes.

@s0cc451 Год назад

Becoming a Centurion without dying in my first battle is amazing enough.

@Captain_Titus3867 Год назад

Love hearing stories of lowborns climbing to the peak of society. Centurions honestly in my opinion are way cooler than any emperor or general. Great fighters, great logistics managers, capable leaders ,an inspiring presence for legionaries or an intimidating killing machine to barbarians.

@michaelrenper796 Год назад

In later days some would become emporers. Look at the career of Justinian I. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

And many times their careers or military records are not covered in detail at all. We take their skills for granted. That's why we had the idea of showing how a career and origins of a centurion might be like.

@jonbaxter2254 Год назад

Proper meritocracy

@michaelrenper796 Год назад

@@jonbaxter2254 No, desccribing society in those days as meritocratic in the modern sense is a projection. There were a few institutions like the military which had learned the hard way that corruption is deadly. Other parts of society were corrupts as hell by our standards.

@sudetenrider-pili6637 Год назад

Love this. This is true Rome that I love.

@Iceking_3334 Год назад

Since you mentioned these military awards could you make a video about all of the other medals a soldier could be awarded( if there are more ) and give an example of how hard or easy it was to get them

@keeleenunknownlegend2943 Год назад

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@HistoriaMilitum Год назад

You honour us! :)

@ajithsidhu7183 Год назад

@@HistoriaMilitum funny historical stories?

@jonbaxter2254 Год назад

I hope to see your channel blow up, as it's always amazing.

@LichsuhoathinhDrabattle Год назад

This Channel is an oasis in the desert of RU-vid content for history lovers💥💥🎞

@d-z5296 Год назад

Thank you for this brilliant video!

@bloodlessbeast2661 Год назад

Finally, been waiting for a video for ages!

@teddykazandjiev Год назад

The last person and his siblings prove that nepotism gets you started but your skills and talents will unltimately decide where you go. If they were simply put in a position thanks to their father they would stay in that position and not rise at all or even lose the position entirely. Respect to all these men.

@yoyoyickityyo Год назад

Exceptional video! Thank you for your effort.

@legioxequestris811 Год назад

YESSS ITS MY FAVORITE TOPIC

@12coudak000 Год назад

One more: Vorenus with his superior combat skills

@yoyoyickityyo Год назад

Has a Galic look about him but a true Roman

@lollius88 Месяц назад

@@yoyoyickityyo Gauls pretty much looked like modern Frenchmen so not really

@cindyy3707 Год назад

Love this channel!

@TheCommissarIsDead Год назад

This channel is just *chefs kiss* ✌️

@ThePatrioticTurtle Год назад

You never disappoint

@christopherthrawn1333 Год назад

Excellent work here Sir

@blackhawkdown4376 Год назад

Great topic I have long awaited for this subject of the Roman army

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

It's something not widely covered. But thanks to their tombstones we can reconstruct hundreds of careers of roman centurions because they tell us every single detail about their career. Only downside is that to access the primary sources you need to know a bit of latin

@65bravo Год назад

Very interesting .... love to see more of lesser known individuals !

@warlord0877 Год назад

Could you do a video on Roman military decorations?

@ciaranbrk Год назад

excelent video thank you :)

@frauleinhohenzollern8442 Год назад

I'm saving myself for a centurion😘

@lollius88 Месяц назад

Strange. Considering your name, a lot of them wouldve massacred your barbarian ancestors 😂💀

@RENATVS_IV Год назад

Good content dude

@philjohnson1744 Год назад

Sweet vid. Instant sub. Yer, gonna need a better mic, or some kinda foam on yer office walls.

@lrgarcia23 Год назад

I asked and you delivered, I have 3 accounts so it may not be this account but this is what I asked for. So interesting the lives of ppl.

@Buts Год назад

Centurion hype let's go!

@robbybee70 7 месяцев назад

first dude could have a movie

@natedarosa3786 3 месяца назад

Crazy Marcus Petronius made it 80 back then after fighting all those battles.

@TheSturgeonGeneral572 Год назад

As a sidenote, could someone tell me what the very faint music is in the Intro? I've heard it before and it gets me pumped lol

@v.g.r.l.4072 Год назад

A glorious ancestor is axial for everyone, even today. Thanks.

@chickenassasintk Год назад

excellent video

@micahistory Год назад

these centurions had quite the career indeed

@PelagiusPrinceps Год назад

You could have talk about maximinian trhax that his carrer was so brutal that he gain the range of emperor xD

@marni6181 Год назад

Do more videos love Roman history

@paoloviti6156 Год назад

In truth the Centurions were always considered the background of the army since the republican period until the fall of the Roman empire. Generally they were ruthless but very courageous and reliable veterans that knew how to handle the troops during the battles slowly gaining confidence of the generals and the troops enjoying much prestige, power and money. In truth in only know imperor Trajan or in Latin: Caesar Nerva Traianus; he was part of the praetorian guard and I presume he came from the ranks of a Centurion if I'm not wrong. I like this video very much and just subscribed 👍👍👍

@anon2427 Год назад

You said background, did you mean backbone?

@paoloviti6156 Год назад

@@anon2427 yes, thanks for correcting me: backbone!

@anon2427 Год назад

@@paoloviti6156 no problem man, I didn’t mean to come off as a dick or anything but it’s good to know👍

@paoloviti6156 Год назад

@@anon2427 it is really fine and you simply correct me. No worries 👍

@philjohnson1744 Год назад

Minor point, but are yer graphics inverted or, at that time,did the legion wear their Gladius on the left?

@davidhughes8357 Год назад

Excellent!!

@davidhughes8357 Год назад

Translate to. Excellent.

@silverchairsg Год назад

What happened if the sons of centurions or important people turned out to be incompetent fools themselves once they were "parachuted" into higher positions? Would they just get quietly transferred to unimportant positions after a while?

@hashtag_thisguy Год назад

Do Maximus Decimus Meridius next, Commander of the armies in the North, General of the Felix Legions.

@Bobblenob 2 месяца назад

Do t forget one of these also was tasked with correcting the grammar of Brian.

@sarcasmo57 Год назад

Fairly impressive

@RENATVS_IV Год назад

I have two suggestions for future videos: 1. How important was Arminius rebelion and leadership, since he stopped Rome to colonize Germania and that free folk later ended the Empire 2. Why didn't Rome developed an important industry, something that make it economically instable

@anon2427 Год назад

I wonder if the Romans ever even cared about Germania at all, doesn’t seem like they did care unless it was to fight them for glory. They were a lot poorer than nations to the east of Rome with poor land and soil

@neutronalchemist3241 Год назад

Not that "free folk". The folk that ended the Empire, at the time of Arminius, was north of the Black sea. Romans didn't consider Germania that important, and the Germanics were only people they had to beat up from time to time when they became too loud. Still Julian, after having beaten the Alamanni at Argentorarum, in 357, went searching for glory in Partia. That changed only with the battle of Adrianople, in 378. Only at that point the Germanics became a main concern.

@eliwhite5548 Год назад

Germanic tribes had little value to Rome and their society's organization made it difficult to hold power over them. It just wasn't worth it. And the Germanic tribes that ended Rome were further Northeast than the Germanic tribes interacted with for most of their history - they invaded the areas near Rome before sacking Rome. Plus, Rome later regained much of it's lost territory before falling again. And Rome still stuck around as the Eastern Roman Empire for hundreds of years, still the dominant power in the Mediterranean. The Germanic tribes that sacked Rome weren't any better than any of Rome's other enemies. They just happened to be around when Rome was imploding due to internal strife - mostly caused by the military demanding higher and higher salaries and holding Rome and the Emperor hostage if they didn't get them. Rome fell because it basically became a military junta.

@glede2097 Год назад

Can you tell me what background music was used?

@djocharablaikan8601 Год назад

Being a Centurion is hell of a job.

@aymenllc Год назад

Slow down, brother. Fantastic content as always but too fast to follow, you are allowed to take pauses and add visuals.

@joshuaperry7199 Год назад

The last centurion LuciusAemilius Paternus. Does anybody know what year he went to britannia to run the 2nd?

@paulredinger5830 Год назад

You notice all the wheat bix kids put some kind of sugar on them? They’re like eating cardboard without something to flavour and give them taste.

@nickdarr7328 12 дней назад

My 3rd grade teacher gave me a golden crown for killing my math homework

@mullhuhn Год назад

Is the centurion seniority correct? I was sure that the Pilus Prior were the leads of their respective cohorts, if so why are they placed underneath the posterior?

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

Only with the Primus Pilus because it is attested in the sources. Who actually led the legionary cohorts is a question that right now cannot be answered because there is no reference to it in the source material. We can guess but without a solid proof as a foundation, it's still a hypothesis. The main reason is that for the romans it was so elementary that everybody understood it without explanation. Just like how elementary is for us turning on and off the lights; everybody knows it

@micahistory Год назад

interesting, I would have never expected so much social mobility

@MBP1918 Год назад

Interesting

@luis.m.yrisson Год назад

It would make a very good video IMO if we could know how do we know all this, Where did these records survive and thanks to whom?

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

Filaxim's researcher here 😊. This records come from the tombstones or small monuments these guys erected or their families. The romans loved to show off their achievements to anyone or simply stating their position or trade. In this case it comes as their service log so to speak. After that it's all an exercise of reading between lines. For example, the guy died aged 45 after 24 years of service? Then he enlisted aged 21. Is the monument set up by his wife and son in his memory? Then he had an unofficial family. Has he a gallic name? Then he probably is from Gaul and etc. All these records have been discovered by archaeologists and uploaded to a huge internet database containing thousands of them, meanwhile the pieces are storaged in museums. Why there isn't more talk of this on youtube? It's because several points: 1-Hugely expensive: The volumes containing inscriptions are huuugely expensive (150 USD each) and there are like 30 of them. Sometimes even museums abstain from buying them. 2-Made by academics for academics: This is not intended as an acussation, it's just that the explanations in these volumes are in LATIN! So if you don't know a bit of it... you are doomed. Even the online database doesn't translate the material 😔. So, again not the most user friendly stuff. 3-Availability: Many times these volumes or simply books collecting material like for example the Vindolanda Tablets and summarizing it are very scarce. These translates in you having to travel hundreds of kilometers to an institution that will only grant you access if you are a scholar or a scholar in training (Phd holder or about to be one). So as you see the conditions are not the best for a permanent presence in media like RU-vid 😅. Sorry for the long text. Let me know your opinion 😊

@The_Daily_Tomato Год назад

@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez This was very informative, thank you for taking the enormous time to educate us simpletons ;)

@9and7 Год назад

BALLS BALLS of Ferrata.

@micahistory Год назад

Please visit Micahistory 2, it would mean a lot!

@DarkFriday1408 Год назад

I have a question with regards to Marcus Petronius. Do we know if he was promoted to Centurion within 4 years of joining the legions? Or did he spend several years as a Librarius and then when he started getting promoted again and ended up being promoted to Centurion within 4 years?

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

Hi, Filaxim's researcher here! He was promoted to centurion within 4 years after joining the legions. The man's career is something unique because his promotion to centurion came after being voted into the rank. So as we understand it, the officers of the legion and the men elected him on the spot. Reminds me of when sargents get promoted to lieutenants because the unit has sustained so much casualties that there are no officers left. But we don't know what was the exact cause so we preferred to stay silent about it. Thanks for your support and comment :)

@alyssondasilva4484 Год назад

@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez where do you find this stuff? What are the primary sources?

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

@@alyssondasilva4484 Hey! This text will be a long one but I hope it will be worth it! 😊 This stuff comes from ancient inscriptions and tombstones of roman legionaries. They don't appear in the media very often so I completely understand if you are hesitant. Let me say, that these pieces of information have the same value as any ancient text and they are studied with the same or even more level of detail to make sure they are not fakes and that the reconstruction is 100% accurate. There is a whole discipline of scholars devoted to this area and inscriptions are always present in scholar debates. Now to your question. The references for these centurions come from a mega compilation known as the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarun (CIL). It is a huge database containing tens of thousands of inscriptions that is being constantly updated with revisions and new pieces. So for example in the case of Decimus Furius, the piece's bar code is CIL 03 7334. The 03 is the prefix from the region it was discovered and the 7334 is the number which scholars gave it when classifying the item for research. So with this number at hand, we go to an internet database and just type the number we want and they will show us the text and a picture of the piece with all the info. Or we can make a general search and find the piece with it's number and info. Since the text is in latin we then make a rough translation (I'm a professional historian and know a bit of latin) and start reading between lines to get as much information as we can. Now, if the text is a bit more complicated as it was the case with the family of Aemilius Paternus, we use the back up of respected scholars. In the latter situation we used a series of articles made by specialists as references to make sure they guys were indeed brothers, that they were equestrians, that they had a brother and if the father was a member of the local aristocracy. In this case, we used a combination of CIL and a local contribution known as IRC (Roman Inscriptions of Catalunya) plus some of the articles stated in the sources. As you can see, we try to make sure everything is extremely well researched and that any person interested in fact checking us can do it. Let me know if you found it useful 😊. I just prefer to give a long answer with lots of details than just stating from where it comes and letting you figure it out 😅

@alyssondasilva4484 Год назад

@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Great. With the level of detail presented i thought that the Romans had a log with the summary of some careers that somehow survived to this day.

@devinwilliams3317 Год назад

NEED THE MUSIC ASAP PLEASE SOMEONE. THIS IS THE SAME TRACK USED ON THE ALEXANDER DOC

@kingspore5000 Год назад

Roman centurions were absolute Chads of their times, proove me wrong

@baswar 2 месяца назад

On the son being promoted straight away could that be a class thing? Since the pay of centurions was very high and his father served so long - and depending if his father had retired and bought/given land by the time his son joined, could we assume that he was regarded as too high class be an ordinary legionary? Perhaps like middle/lower-upper class.

@DickDickerson01 Год назад

Since the dawn of time it has always been WHO you know not WHAT you know. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@swissmilitischristilxxii3691 Год назад

Good job. Russkiye pwr.

@c.e.o.9985 Год назад

I can't find the source of all of this information. Can someone tell me where can I get it? Thanks

@HistoriaMilitum Год назад

We added every source in the description. You can find each career there. Cheers!

@s.p.q.r.6853 Год назад

Legio aeterna victrix !

@peppolobuondelmonte Год назад

Fabrizio said: ...for while these practices were pleasing to my Romans, my country without them was ruined. -Machiavelli, Niccolo The Art of War Book I

@Clearlight201 Год назад

fun fact: the Roman rank of Primu Pilus is literally translated as Biggus Dickus (I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called Biggus Dickus)

@legioxequestris811 Год назад

Wow

@eliwhite5548 Год назад

Crazy how you didn't mention any of the soldiers who worked their way up through the military all the way to Emperor

@xenobyte2281 Год назад

What about the legendary Dentatus?

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

We would like to cover him one day. He is the roman Achilles for a reason hahahaha. Sadly we don't know which details are true, exaggerations or false. Because the history of Early Rome is more legendary than dry facts

@menno1630 Год назад

You mentioned multiple legions with the same number, for example first Italica, Minervia and Adiutrix and second Adiutrix, Augusta and Partica. Why were there multiple legions with the same number?

@HistoriaMilitum Год назад

We don’t exactly know why the Romans repeated legion numbers. They seems to have no distinct reason to keep 1 of each legion number either, so various emperors created their own legions with multiple numbers. Cheers!

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

The thing is there is no real reason for it 😅. Some legions were numbered in an orderly manner, but others seem to have been numbered based on the number of legions the reigning emperor had levied. For example Septimius Severus levied 1st, 2nd and 3rd Parthica legions but such numbers were shared with many other legions. So as you see, there is no one guiding reason behind the numbering. Ok Filaxim has already answered you 😂

@menno1630 Год назад

@@HistoriaMilitum Thanks for the awnser!

@menno1630 Год назад

@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez thank you for awnsering!

@RawPowerliftingStrength Год назад

First Spear Centurion, Lucius Vorenus

@GeorgeEstregan828 Год назад

Me, stuck in a 8am to 5pm job: nice

@MarvinT0606 Год назад

Next video should be "3 MOST Impressive Drunken Fool Careers (feat. Titus Pullo)"

@ramirohernandez8139 10 месяцев назад

Hello, great video. But I think there is one centurion who made a better career. Let me intrude Cayo Sulpicio Úrsulo: Cayo or Gayo Sulpicio Úrsulo (in Latin, Gaius Sulpicius Ursulus) was an Asturian soldier who achieved prestige within the Roman army during the time of Emperor Trajan. He was possibly born in Ujo (Mieres, Asturias, Spain), where he was found the tomb of this Astur with a Latin name. He served as praefectus of the Legio III Augusta, based in Lambaesis, in the lands of present-day Algeria. We know nothing of the place where Úrsulo began his military service in the Roman legions, since his history it is not reflected on Ujo's tombstone until he reaches his first official position. In any case, this was the centurion of the Legio I Minerva Pia Fidelis, whose quarters were in Bonna on the banks of the Rhine border. elite troops, whose mission was the surveillance and care of the defense of Rome, capital of the Empire, from where the Urban denomination came. He ascends quickly, passing from this chosen unit to another even more select and the most prestigious within the army of Rome: the Praetorians. Ursulo went from being a centurion of the urban garrison of Rome to the same position in the Cohors IV Praetoria, the emperor's personal guard, which some authors suppose would have been that of the Hispanic Trajan (98-117) and others think that it would have been Commodus (c. year 180, at the end of the 2nd century). He ascends later, going from a centurion of the praetorians to a primipil of the Legio XXII Primigenia, whose quarters were in Mogontiacum. From this, he passed to Legio III Augusta, ascending to praefectus, being quartered in Lambaesis, at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, whose passages to the Sahara he watched over, in what is currently Algeria. From North Africa, with the outbreak of the Dacian wars, a unit of symmachiarii astures was sent to combat, a strange auxiliary force that used to comprise absolutely irregular and almost non-romanized soldiers (so it could be deduced that it fits more into the times of Trajan than in those of Commodus), which should not be easy to handle, so they need officers with a lot of seniority and experience. After the conversion of Dacia into a Roman province, Úrsulo ends his military career (possibly due to age) and receives his honesta missio.

@eduardtarniceriu102 Год назад

Decimus Furius Secundus was the best

@russianbot8423 Год назад

8:32 wtf is decilated?

@Validboy Год назад

Not every promotion is due to extraordinary ability.. Sometimes its just nepotism.. These are desk jockeys, not soldiers..

@yoloswaggins2161 Год назад

Gigacus Chadicus

@charjl96 Год назад

What is a walled crown?

@HistoriaMilitum Год назад

One of the highest prized awards given to soldiers. It was a token, much like a medal, which was bestowed upon the first man in the army to scale the walls of an enemy city!

@charjl96 Год назад

@@HistoriaMilitum Was it a crown that looked like a wall?

@HistoriaMilitum Год назад

@@charjl96 An image of a real walled crown appears when I say it in the video :)

@Renwoxing13 7 месяцев назад

not quite what I expected from this video... rising to the sky through connections. I would prefer stellar and outstanding warriors who rose through the rank like meteors... preferably if they were the lowest born !

@michaelrowave Год назад

So which one killed the most people trying to defend their homeland and religon?

@duplicarus 10 месяцев назад

"Duplicarii" ah shizzy it's the word my name is based on

@annoyingcommentator1582 Год назад

That first name sounds like a borg designation.

@rthompson7182 Год назад

“These guys are pussies.” - Spurius Ligustinus

@CptZhu Год назад

Chaddicus maximus

@daniel-zh9nj6yn6y Год назад

The 1st guy had only 2 higher positions left: governor, and Emperor.

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

Oh no, he was a local senator. Something similar to a city councilor. Roman colonies emulated the governing system of the capital and each had their own version of the senate but with different ranks and names. But instead of using a term very few people would understand we decided to use a more familiar one. So sorry for the confussion 😅

@DontThinkso-kb9tc 9 дней назад

How can we meet them in person? Lmao. They have been RIP for like 2k years

@yoyokatchonga9124 Год назад

The takeaways: 1. Social background is secondary 2. a good social class gives you an advantage . . what?!

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

It means that being a plebeian will not hamper your career as in the armies of the XVII-XIXth centuries in which you couldn't rise beyond a certain rank, but that being from a higher social class has certain perks

@gundarvarr1024 Год назад

Pertinax beat them all in order of career.

@user-io6pj8bz8h Год назад

Preatorians were not soldiers of any sort. They were just basic cops, beating on unarmed folks, usually about ten to one.

@dshodaw Год назад

How are these impressive (other than the first one)?? In both cases, we're talking about people elevated by their own father's, or elevating their own children. It's easy to excel when you start halfway up the ladder.

@bohemiancasanova5538 Год назад

The only thing I hate about your videos is how you prounounce letter "C" it really isnt pronounced as K especially when talking about Roman names and such. Try fixing that and your vids will become pure perfection.

@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Год назад

I have to disagree with you there. We follow the stablished scholarly cannons when pronouncing latin based on philologists reconstructions. It isn't done by chance or by lack of knowledge