Legio IV Italica

The Legio IIII Italica was a Roman legion, which was erected in the 3rd century and lasted until the 5th century. The emblem of the Legion is not known.

History of the Legion

Severus Alexander presented the Legio IIII Italica in the year 231 in the region Transpadana ( northern Italy) for a campaign against the Sassanids on. My first tribune Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus the Soldiers, who later became Emperor Maximinus Thrax, personally cared for the " basic training " of recruits. Other historians of a breakdown of the Legion until the end of the 3rd century out.

The Legion supported Maximinus when he ascended the throne in the year 235 was between 235 and 238 Maximinus Thrax by the young recruits his new Italica (by tirones iuventutis novae Italicae suae ) build roads at Aquileia and Torviscosa. The IIII Italica probably participated in Maximinus ' campaigns against the Alamanni and the " barbarians " on the Danube. They probably belonged to the troops with which the Emperor 238 moved to Aquileia. Gordian III. ( 238-244 ) moved the Legion after Mesopotamia and placed it under the governor Serapammon.

As part of the reforms of the emperor Diocletian ( 284-305 ) was the Legio IIII Italica from the border defense ( limitanei ) Transtigritaniens removed and Pseudocomitatenses ( field army ) carried.

The Quarta Italica was around 400 a Legio pseudocomitatensis and was under the Magister Militum per orientem.

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