Flavius Bauto

Flavius ​​Bauto ( † before 388; sometimes called Baudogast ) was a late ancient Roman army master ( magister militum ).

Bauto was of Frankish origin and grew up east of the Rhine on, so in a non- occupied territory by the Romans Germania. He joined the Roman army and was appointed by the Emperor Gratian to the magister militum ( Captains ) 380. Gratian sent him to the emperor in the East, Theodosius I, for support. Bauto was in the following years, in addition to the bishop Ambrose of Milan, who mentions him several times, the main advisor to the Emperor Valentinian II, who reigned 383 to the west after the murder of Gratian. In the year 383 Bauto beat back the invading after Raetien Juthungen and is said to have mobilized against the usurper Magnus Maximus several barbarian tribes. Although Bauto was a heathen and Quintus Aurelius Symmachus familiar with, he supported 384 in the dispute over the Victoria altar the rejection of a petition pagan senators by Emperor Valentinian II 385 Bauto held together with the eldest son of Theodosius, the eastern emperor Arcadius later, the consulate.

In the sources Bautos be praised military capabilities, he also said to have amassed an immense fortune. Supposedly Bauto was the father of Army Master Arbogast (at least according to John of Antioch ). , But this is unlikely Bautos daughter, Aelia Eudoxia highly educated, married Emperor Arcadius 395.

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