Arvandus

Arvandus ( Arabundus ) a Western Roman politician was Gallo- Roman origins in the 5th century.

In the year 464 Arvandus of Libius Severus and Ricimer was appointed praetorian prefect of Gaul. He had to deal with the powerful Germanic kingdoms of the Franks, Visigoths and Burgundians, as well as with the 461 fallen away from Ravenna Gallo-Roman Empire under special Aegidius († 464/65 ) and its successor Syagrius.

468 a correspondence of Arvandus was known in which he recommended that the Visigoth king Eurich, the Western Emperor Anthemius used by Leo I to refuse the recognition and settled north of the Loire to attack allied with Syagrius Bretons. Arvandus was sentenced early 469 in Rome for high treason ( he strove with Euric backing even the imperial dignity, as Cassiodorus suggests, is uncertain), but thanks to the intervention of influential friends ( including Sidonius Apollinaris, who handed down the process) commuted to banishment.

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• Cassiodorus, see Chronica 1287, a 469
• Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae 1, 7, 1-13