Olybrius, a wealthy senator, has married Placidia,…

472 CE

Olybrius, a wealthy senator, has married Placidia, the daughter of Valentinian III.

Genseric hopes that Olybrius will be made Western emperor but the Vandal king's support makes Olybrius suspect to Leo.

Leo, hoping that the reigning Western emperor, Anthemius, will kill Olybrius, sends him from Constantinople to Rome, but Anthemius and the kingmaker Ricimer quarrel.

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Anthemius View → Genseric View → Leo I the Thracian View → Olybrius View → Placidia View → Ricimer View → Zeno View →

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Italy, Praetorian prefecture of View → East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of View → Roman Empire, Western (Ravenna) View → Italy, Diocese of View → Vandals and the Alans, Kingdom of the View → Roman Empire, Eastern: Leonid dynasty View →

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Late Antiquity View → Migration Period View → Fall of the Western Roman Empire View → Migration Period Pessimum View →

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