Felix (consul 428)

Flavius ​​Felix († May 430 in Ravenna ) was a Western Roman army champion.

The sources do not report in great detail about Felix, but he seems at first a great influence on the young Emperor Valentinian III. exercised to have and to have been a confidant of his mother Galla Placidia. 425 Felix was appointed in the west to the magister utriusque military (top Heermeister ). 426 he ordered the murder of the bishop allegedly Patroclus and the deacon Titus. 428 he became a full consul, and 429 of title Patricius he was awarded. He commanded the troops in Italy and was a rival to the Heermeister Boniface and Aetius. Well the latter was murdered with his wife Padusia in May 430 in Ravenna Felix: Felix was lynched by mutinous Legionäen. Some time later there was a power struggle between Boniface and Aetius, from the Aëtius ultimately emerged victorious.

Felix founded together with his wife Padusia a mosaic in the apse of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.