Arbogast (Count of Trier)

Arbogast ( the younger) was the beginning of the 70s of the 5th century AD Western Roman comes from Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier).

Arbogast came from a Romanized Frankish family and was a Catholic Christian. His father came Arigius possibly from Trier, one of his ancestors was the elder Arbogast. Arbogast was obviously highly educated, what from a letter of Sidonius Apollinaris apparent ( Epistulae 4.17 ), which saw one of the last defenders of the collapsing Western Roman Empire and the Roman culture in it.

Arbogast ruled with the help of remaining Roman associations and Frankish foederati in the middle Mosel region, so a relatively small impact area, which was quite typical of the political disintegration of Gaul at the end of Roman rule. But he was under no Germanic king and held the title also rex itself, but presumably recognized the authority of the emperor to whom he should have the title comes owes. Thus, to understand his reign as a transitional period between Roman and Frankish rule. Around the year 475 fell Trier, the Arbogast had ruled in agreement with the population, finally a thing of the Franks, who had beset this area in the years before. The late antique culture became extinct soon after.

Possibly the end of the 5th century bishop testified Arbogast of Chartres is identical with him. Get a laudatory epistle to Arbogast of Episcopal Auspicius of Toul.