Ingenuus

Ingenuus († 260) was in the middle of the 3rd century AD, probably Roman governor in the Roman province of Pannonia and usurper against Emperor Gallienus.

He was originally charged with the military education of Valerian Caesar, son of the Mitkaisers Gallienus. After the sudden death of the boy (258 ), he fell into an increasingly critical situation. After Ingenuus had heard 260 of the capture of Valerian in the Sassanid Empire, he proclaimed himself in Sirmium to the Roman Emperor. Soon he had the province of Moesia behind. Gallienus acted immediately, leaving behind his younger son in Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Cologne) and made off with troops of the Army of the Rhine, Upper Germany and Raetia quickly to Pannonia on. But even before his arrival the zoom marched from northern Italy Dacian Aureolus, a cavalry general who had defeated Ingenuus in late summer or early autumn 260 already on the lower reaches of the river Drava at Mursa. These struggles also the future emperor Claudius Gothicus was involved. The army of the usurper was defeated, Ingenuus himself was killed after the defeat of his bodyguard. The judgment which Gallienus allegedly opened over the members of the insurgent troops after this victory is said to have drawn the mutineers to Regalianus, which was then appointed himself in Carnuntum to the anti-emperor and minted coins for himself and his wife Dryantilla. Coins with the name of Ingenuus are not known.

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